Aadra Gunashekar
Skills
Product Strategy & Roadmapping, SaaS & Enterprise Platforms, AI/ML Product Management, Customer-Centric Design & Research, Cross-Functional Team Leadership (30+ team members), Data Visualization & Analytics (React, Plotly, Tableau), Stakeholder Management (Fortune 500, Governments, SMEs), JIRA, Confluence, Github
Master of Public Administration (MPA in Developent Practice) (2016) School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) Honors + M.Tech (2013) IIT Kharagpur
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Summary
Aadra is a product professional with 7 years of work experience across 3 continents working in the data-driven impact sector as a Product Manager and a Consultant. An Edwin C. Price Fellow at Columbia University Aadra focussed on evaluating the role of technology in defining and shaping the role of agricultural societies in emerging markets.
Aadra is a cohesive team worker with strong problem solving and interpersonal skills in global markets.
Currently, Aadra is working as a Growth PM at Random Walk, an AI product and services company. Her journey spans Fortune 500 companies, high-growth startups, and SaaS platforms.
With a strong foundation in analytics, machine learning, and user experience design, Aadra thrives at the intersection of technology, business strategy, and customer needs.
She has shipped products used by thousands of users worldwide, from data visualization platforms
to AI native micro-learning platforms that simplify employee engagement.
Aadra worked as Product Manager at an Identity Verification company managing client requirements for multiple identity verification products. In the past, Aadra conducted
UI/UX research and helped build the content calendar for a B2C farmer advisory app, that now has 1 Million+ downloads from the Playstore. Aadra supported platform development
mobile and web, aliasing frequently with clients to ensure product alignment with user needs for a satellite imagery analytics company. Aadra has executed and managed high-value projects
with several organizations and businesses. Aadra is a polyglot able to communicate in English, Hindi, and Marathi.
Publications
- Gunashekar A. Satellite Data for Effective Implementation of Crop Insurance , Smart AgriPost, September 2018.
- Gunashekar A. Mainstreaming Renewables in the Caribbean Energy Mix UNSDSN - In the News, August 5, 2015.
- Gunashekar A. From All Seeing to All Perceiving: How SatSure is Transforming Satellite Imagery to Decision Intelligence
- Financial Development, Social Development, and Economic Growth: The Causal Nexus in Asia, Springer DECISION, Vol.11, 2013, R. P. Pradhan, B. Mukhopadhyay, A. Gunashekar, B. Samadhan, and S. Pandey.
- Finance-Growth Nexus in Select Asian Countries, The IUP Journal of Applied Finance, Vol. 19, No.3, July 2013, pp. 39-55 R. P. Pradhan, and A. Gunashekar.
- Modelling the Causal Nexus between Social Development and Economic Growth in 15 Asian Countries, Asian-African Journal of Economics and Econometrics, Vol.12, No.2, 2012:407-420 R.P. Pradhan, A. Gunashekar, B. Samadhan, and S. Pandey.
- Chapter on Financial Development and Economic Growth in Select Asian Countries in Project Financing Editor Dr. Rudra Pradhan, Bloomsbury Publications, United Kingdom, 2012.
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Creative Pursuits
I've really gotten into ASCII art recently and am actively pursuing learning how to build games.
During Diwali 2024, instead of helping my mom make rangoli, I made an app that inputs two emojis and outputs an emoji rangoli pattern.
Here's the link to it: Emorangoli.
Just last week, in 2025, I made my very first working game: Geobattle. You have to type out country names in title case before the computer.
You are Ukraine, while the computer is Russia. Whoever types the most country names within a minute, wins!
Link to the game:Geobattle
I along with a colleague built this webcam rock-paper-scissors game that allows the user to use a punch gesture instead of
the traditional rock gesture. Here's the link to the game:Webcam-RPS
Contact: email
Follow me on:
@1Aadra
Favorite quote: Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;
👣 👣 👣 🐾
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