Four years shipping AI-native B2B SaaS in regulated domains. Based in Bangalore, open to relocate to Hyderabad or work remote.
I've spent four years shipping AI-native B2B SaaS across healthcare GRC, clinical workflows, and enterprise retail. My background is in applied product thinking, the unglamorous parts: discovery, prioritization, regulatory sign-off, and killing the things that shouldn't ship.
I've spent most of my career in domains where compliance is existential and the metrics have to be defended, not invented. That's shaped how I work. I prefer controlled automation over autonomous agents, behavior over opinion, and a written kill memo over a polite silence.
Outside of work I read too much philosophy of science, cook irregularly, and keep a small notebook of product failures, mine and other people's, as a running reminder that shipping is the easy part.
Experience
How I work
I've had the luxury of shipping in domains where the wrong call doesn't just cost money, it costs trust. These are the rules that kept me honest.
Technical excitement is cheap. Sustainable economics are rare. I've killed a $1M AI initiative during discovery when PHI/PII compliance blockers turned the ROI negative; I'd do it again. The hardest deliverable a PM produces is a well-argued recommendation against shipping. Build what can scale safely, not what demos well.
Users tell you the checkout is "fine." The funnel tells you they abandon at step three. I trust instrumentation, Pendo telemetry and controlled experiments, over stated preference. That's how we cut enterprise cart abandonment 42%, and how I sequence roadmaps now.
In healthcare and GRC, adoption isn't a function of speed or feature count, it's a function of defensibility. The clinical MVP pivoted from speed-first to interpretability-first after clinician interviews told us they wouldn't sign what they couldn't defend. Controlled automation beat full autonomy; trust beat velocity. $500K+ ARR in six months followed.
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"I've worked with Hemanth for the past year, and I can say without hesitation that he is one of the most talented Product Owners I've had the pleasure of working with... Hemanth has complete command of his product space and is exceptionally well organized.
What sets him apart is his leadership. During a recent challenging quarter, he shields his team when things are hard and gives them the spotlight when things go well. That's empathy-driven leadership that few senior leaders ever develop, and he has it early in his career.
His technical and AI capabilities are equally impressive... He pairs that skill with strong requirements gathering, stakeholder management, and a genuine talent for solving hard problems calmly and methodically. Hemanth is going to be a senior executive leader someday soon. I'm certain of it."
Alex Marciante · Senior Product Management Executive
Alex was senior to KrishnaS but didn't manage KrishnaS directly. (LinkedIn Recommendation, July 2026)
Symplr. Dream Team (cross-functional collaboration), You Make a Difference (AI POC delivery).
Quantiphi. Kaizen (process improvement and operational excellence), SPOT (exceptional delivery).
Certifications. SAFe 5.0 Product Owner / Product Manager · Product Management Certificate, Product School · Google Associate Cloud Engineer.
Education. M.Tech, Industrial Biotechnology, NIT Karnataka (Surathkal) · B.Tech, Biotechnology, NIT Andhra Pradesh.