# Parikshit Gupta

> Technical Product Manager based in Pune, India. Builder-turned-PM with 5 years building CRM & ERP products for field service businesses in the US & Canada. I go from customer call to shipped product — and I know what's happening in the code too.

## About

Parikshit Gupta is a Technical Product Manager at ZenTrades Inc. (formerly SmartServ Inc.). He started as a Product Intern in January 2022 and has grown into owning the entire product surface — leading a 21-person engineering team, shipping 1000+ features, and building AI agents that are in production. He has been recognised 3× as Achiever of the Quarter (Q2'22, Q1'23, Q2'23).

## Work Experience

- [ZenTrades Inc. — Full Work History](https://parikshitgupta.in/#work): Roles include Technical Product Manager (July 2024–present), Product Manager I (2023–2024), Product Associate (2022–2023), and Product Intern (Jan–July 2022).

## Key Projects

- [AI Collection Agent](https://parikshitgupta.in/#projects): Conversational AI agent for accounts receivable. Secured $1.5Mn ARR LOI from v1. Built on GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Supabase.
- [ZenFire Co-Pilot](https://zenfire.pro/co-pilot): AI-powered fire inspection tool for iOS & Android. 0→1 product, 25+ customers, ~$30K ARR in 2 months. Uses LLaMA 3 + GPT-3.5-turbo + vector embeddings.
- [Client Portal](https://cp.zentrades.pro): IAM/ACL enterprise client portal. ~$500K ARR in pipeline.
- [Stripe Payment Infrastructure](https://parikshitgupta.in/#projects): Payment stack built from scratch as an intern. $1Mn+ processed in 3 months.
- [Procurement Pipeline](https://parikshitgupta.in/#projects): Full P2P module with QuickBooks sync. ~$400K ARR in under 1 year.

## Education

- B.Tech, Electrical Engineering — MIT World Peace University, Pune, India (2018–2022)
- Research Paper: "Reverse Engineering of Human Brain for the Field of AI" — Published in IJERT: https://www.ijert.org/reverse-engineering-of-human-brain-for-the-field-of-artificial-intelligence

## Articles

Articles are hosted on the subdomain: https://articles.parikshitgupta.in

- [Building Web-Ready Slideshows With Reveal.js](https://articles.parikshitgupta.in/2020/04/01/reveal-js-slideshows/)
- [From Scrape to Map: A Tableau Tutorial](https://articles.parikshitgupta.in/2020/04/01/scrape-to-map-tableau-tutorial/)
- [Refactoring useState() to useReducer()](https://articles.parikshitgupta.in/2020/04/06/refactoring-usestate-to-usereducer/)
- [Evolution of a Salesman: Genetic Algorithm for Python](https://articles.parikshitgupta.in/2020/04/07/evolution-of-a-salesman/)
- [Job Application with Notion API](https://articles.parikshitgupta.in/2021/05/27/notion-application/)
- [AWS Architecture](https://articles.parikshitgupta.in/2022/02/03/aws-architecture/)

## Social Profiles

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parikshitgupta1/
- GitHub: https://github.com/parikshitgupta1
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/anonymous07p
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/parikshitgupta.in/
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IMR-FUAAAAAJ&hl=en
- ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Parikshit-Gupta-2
- LeetCode: https://leetcode.com/u/parikshitgupta/

## Contact

- Email: parikshitvmgupta@gmail.com
- Website: https://parikshitgupta.in