Ravi Teja Palanki — Profile

RAVI TEJAPALANKI
AI Product Leader

I ship reliable, human-centered AI inside a Fortune 100 — and the patterns I learn doing it.

Perplexity AI Fellow '25Sr. Technical PM @ HoneywellLovable L4Advisory Board · TAPMI MBA in AI
LinkedIn ↗GitHub ↗Email ↗Website ↗Substack ↗
HONEYWELLPM
BRILLIO
TAPMI · MBA
NIT JSR · B.TECH
01 // Experience

Twelve Years, Three Chapters

From an engine-block factory floor to enterprise AI products. Each chapter taught me something different about what it actually takes to ship.

HoneywellSr. Technical PM · 5 Enterprise Products · 200+ Customers · 2021 — Present
01 // TrackWise

TrackWise Digital

Product strategy across DMS, TMS, and EU MIR — three regulated life-sciences products on Salesforce Lightning, serving 200+ enterprise life sciences & med device customers. AI-assisted EU MIR with human-in-the-loop, plus other regulatory agents at POC stage.

200+ ENTERPRISE CUSTOMERSSALESFORCE LIGHTNINGHITL + AGENTS (POC)
DMSTMSEU MIRTrackWise
The Inside Story“The hardest call wasn't whether AI could draft an EU MIR — it was where to put the human in the loop so regulators trusted the output.”
  • Built the first AI-assisted EU MIR drafting flow with reviewer checkpoints regulators could audit.
  • Lined up 4 additional regulatory-agent POCs on the same HITL spine — each domain gets the same scaffolding.
  • Three product lines, one Salesforce Lightning surface — kept the platform debt low while shipping vertically.
2025 — Present
02 // Battery MXP

Battery MXP

0-to-1 MES for battery gigafactories. Co-created the architecture with Honeywell Fellows; shipped first alpha in 15 months — against the typical 24+. $100M+ revenue lane, 2 patents filed from my team.

$100M+ REVENUE LANE15 MONTHS TO ALPHA2 PATENTS / TEAM
Press ReleaseProduct Page
The Inside Story“We were building the airplane and the runway at the same time — a brand-new MES category, in a brand-new factory chemistry, with Fellows who'd never PM'd a 0-to-1 before.”
  • Co-authored the platform architecture with Honeywell Fellows — translated their physics into shippable PRDs.
  • Forced a 15-month alpha cadence by ruthlessly scoping the first cell-formation use case.
  • Two patents filed from the team — IP lives with Honeywell, but the credit is theirs.
2023 — 2025
03 // Prod Intel

Production Intelligence

Industrial Gen AI assistant for plant operators. Multi-DB RAG across PostgreSQL, Druid, Neo4j, and Postgres Vector on GPT-4o via Azure AI Foundry — with hallucination guardrails I built before Honeywell had an AI platform. 40% adoption lift, 30% faster decisions.

+40% ADOPTION−30% DECISION TIMEGPT-4o · AZURE AI FOUNDRY
Press ReleaseForge AI
The Inside Story“There was no internal AI platform when we started. So I built the eval harness and the guardrails first — the model came second.”
  • Wired RAG across four database engines — Postgres, Druid, Neo4j, Postgres Vector — to the same GPT-4o surface.
  • Shipped hallucination guardrails and an eval harness before Honeywell had a central AI platform.
  • Operators went from 30 minutes to under 10 to make the same plant-floor decision.
2022 — 2024
04 // Worker Assist

Worker Assist

Solo PM on a connected-worker platform across Android, iOS, Realwear (head-mounted tablet), and Web. Coordinated 30 cross-functional stakeholders. Took adoption from 500 to 2,500 industrial users in 12 months.

4 FORM FACTORS30 STAKEHOLDERS500 → 2,500 USERS / 12 MO
Adoption500 → 1,200 → 2,500
Product PageApp Store
The Inside Story“Solo PM, four form factors, thirty stakeholders. The product worked when I stopped designing for devices and started designing for the worker's next step.”
  • Realwear is a head-mounted tablet, not AR — designed the UX for hands-busy industrial use, not consumer immersion.
  • One backlog, four clients (Android · iOS · Realwear HMT · Web) — kept feature parity within a sprint.
  • 5× adoption in 12 months by removing one tap at a time, not by adding features.
2021 — 2022
BrillioLead Product Owner · Sempra Energy · 2016 — 2021
BRILLIO // ENGINEERING

Product Engineering

Led modernization of 5+ legacy PHP enterprise apps to Azure SaaS for Sempra Energy — 3 scrum teams, 20+ engineers, multi-year strategic account. Ran pre-sales for Product Engineering at an 85% win ratio, contributing 15% to company revenue growth.

5+ APPS MIGRATED3 SCRUM TEAMS · 20+ ENG85% WIN RATIO
85%Win Ratio
Pre-sales for Product Engineering — 15% contribution to company revenue growth.
brillio.comProduct Engineering
The Inside Story“Pre-sales is product management with a deadline. Win the room, then ship what you sold.”
  • Sempra Energy: PHP monolith → Azure SaaS, sequenced so the business never paused.
  • Pre-sales at 85% win — wrote the proposals I'd want to read as a buyer.
  • 15% revenue contribution to Brillio — receipts I can name.
2016 — 2021
Wipro Consumer CareFMCG Marketing Rotation · MBA · 2015
WIPRO // FMCG

Wipro Consumer Care — Rural Maharashtra

Three-month FMCG marketing rotation across rural Maharashtra. 3,000+ retail outlets analyzed in person. Rolled out mobile-based automated ordering at the retailer level — 15% market expansion in the geography.

3,000+ OUTLETS+15% MARKET EXPANSIONMOBILE ORDERING ROLLOUT
The Inside Story“This was my adoption-instinct origin story. If a kirana owner in rural Maharashtra adopts your tool, an enterprise PM eventually will too.”
MBA Rotation · 2015
Tata MotorsCustomer Service Mgr → Floor Manager · 2012 — 2014
TATA // OPERATIONS

Engine Factory & Dealership

Two stops at Tata Motors before the Cloud era — where I learned that operations is product management with steel.

CUSTOMER SVC MGR · −20% COMPLAINTS / 90 DAYSYOUNGEST FLOOR MGR · WORLD CLASS QUALITY
The Inside Story“The factory floor taught me what dashboards never can — when a process actually breaks, you can hear it before you see it.”
2012 — 2014
01 · Customer Service Manager — Small Vehicles Dealership
Reduced customer complaints by 20% in 90 days.
02 · Floor Manager — Robotic Cylinder-Block Line
Youngest floor manager on the line. Drove Total Predictive Maintenance (TPM) discipline that earned World Class Quality certification.
“Orchestrated the first alpha out of Honeywell Connected Industrial in 15 months — the typical cycle is 24+.”
// 01YEARS
12+
Years B2B Product
// 02SHIPPED
5
Enterprise Products Shipped
// 03REACH
200+
Enterprise Customers
// 04SURFACE
4
Form Factors · Android · iOS · Realwear HMT · Web
02 // AI Portfolio

What I Build After Hours

Side projects where I stress-test the patterns I write about — agent orchestration, RAG, eval harnesses.

01 // Cowork Skills

Claude Cowork Skills

70+ composable skills for AI PM workflows, organized in three layers — Thinking → Judgment → Craft. Distributed as a single Claude plugin with a self-correcting orchestrator.

View on GitHub
02 // Patterns

Product Patterns

RAG + knowledge graph + LLM eval harness. A browsable pattern library for AI builders, grounded in real implementations.

productpatterns.inGitHub
03 // AI Learning

AI Learning

100+ deep-dive articles — my working notes from shipping AI products inside a Fortune 100. Published on this site and on Substack.

Read on site →Substack
03 // Competencies & Tools

Stack & Strengths

Competencies

Cross-functional LeadershipLarge Language ModelsRAG & Context EngineeringPrompt EngineeringEval FrameworksHuman-in-the-LoopResponsible AIAI User Experience0-to-1 Product StrategyEnterprise B2B SaaSAgile at Scale

Tool Stack

Claude PROPerplexity MAXNotebookLM PROLovable PROGammaN8NEmergentNotion AIMS CopilotJIRAConfluenceAzure
04 // Education & Certifications

Foundations

Education

Schools

T.A. Pai Management Institute (TAPMI)
MBA, Marketing & Finance. Top 25 MBA in India. Founded the Leadership Advisory Development Centre ↗ during the MBA — still standing today. Now serves on the Advisory Board for the TAPMI MBA in AI ↗ & Data Intelligence.
NIT Jamshedpur
B.Tech (Hons.), Electrical & Electronics. Top 15 Engineering in India. The engineering literacy I lean on inside battery gigafactories.
Certifications

Credentials

Salesforce Agentforce SpecialistSAFe Product Owner / Product ManagerSAFe AgilistProfessional Scrum Product OwnerMarshall Goldsmith Coaching Collection
I don't just manage products.
I connect the people building them.