(01) — Life
I grew up in India, spent five years engineering 5G networks in the United States, and am now in Barcelona asking a different kind of question: not how do we build it, but why.
Away from the roadmaps I read constantly, write essays no one asked for, build Lego sets past midnight, and plan trips with the same rigor I plan releases.
Aurangabad → Pune → Maryland
→ Austin → Barcelona
places I've called home
(02) — Work
Jul 2026 – Sep 2026
Market Opportunity Research InternCurrent
Resonant Labs · Barcelona, Spain
Case study — the survey rebuild
Problem
Three weeks into the internship, I put an industry pain-point survey in front of leadership. The verdict: "very high-level and generic." No line-by-line notes — just that it wasn't sharp enough to ship.
Approach
Instead of patching questions, I went back to the actual goal: what product decision does each answer need to inform? I rebuilt the instrument around three things — measurable AI impact, vendor dependency risk, and C-suite cost sensitivity — and mapped every question to a specific feature, pricing, or positioning decision it was meant to unlock. Then I brought in an outside industry expert to pressure-test the redesign before it went back to leadership.
Outcome
A 16-question, role-branched survey — individual contributor, business unit head, and C-suite each see a different path — built to a 60–90 second completion target. It shipped.
The lesson wasn't about the survey. It was that "make it better" feedback is only useful once you translate it into "what decision is this actually supposed to inform."
Sep 2025 – Mar 2027
MBA, AI Product Management & StrategyCurrent
ESADE Business & Law School · Barcelona, Spain
Full-time MBA focused on AI product management, product strategy, innovation, and business operations. VP Careers & Corporate Relations of the Tech Club, leading corporate outreach and alumni engagement across the EU. Co-Lead of the Digital Impact Project, pairing family businesses with student consulting teams. Lead of Invisible But Essential, a student storytelling initiative spotlighting diverse journeys within the ESADE community.
Aug 2022 – May 2024
Tech Lead
Ericsson · Austin, United States
Owned product operations for a critical 5G domain — roadmap ownership, feature prioritization, and delivery trade-offs across 20+ cross-functional teams in Sweden, Canada, and India. Led the She'ricsson ERG (4 programs, 150+ employees) and NextGen ERG mentorship pathways for new grads.
Dec 2020 – Aug 2022
Senior Software Engineer
Ericsson · Austin, United States
Shipped 6 end-to-end features across major North American deployments (Ottawa, Dallas, Chicago), owning the full lifecycle from problem definition through post-release analysis. Drove test infrastructure automation — 30% less manual cycle time, 80% code coverage.
Aug 2019 – Nov 2020
Software Engineer
Ericsson · Austin, United States
Cut response time by 25% for high-priority network traffic, improved system performance by 35% in low-signal conditions, and built Python automation freeing 15+ hours a week of recurring test work.
Aug 2017 – May 2019
MS, University of Maryland
College Park, United States
Associate at Accessibility & Disability Affairs, transcribing course materials into accessible formats for students with visual impairments.
Jun 2013 – Jun 2017
BE, University of Pune
Cummins College of Engineering · Pune, India
Board Member of the Robotics Club. Best Team in the City, International Robocon Competition.
Leading, alongside the day job
Employee Resource Groups — Ericsson
Led two ERGs, She'ricsson (Women at Ericsson) and NextGen: owned the budgets, coordinated 20+ volunteers, and delivered 4 programs reaching 150+ employees, including a site-wide new-grad mentorship program.
VP, Careers & Corporate Relations — ESADE Tech Club
Corporate outreach and industry programming across 4 events, plus the Amsterdam Study Trek.
Co-Lead — ESADE Digital Impact Project
A Tech Club × Family Business Club initiative connecting family businesses with student consulting teams on digital transformation.
Currently reading
(03) — Skills & Tools
Product
Research & comms
Technical
Tools
AI-native build
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner.
(04) — Projects
Product · 0 → 1 · Case study
Problem
Every task manager assumes a constant-energy day. For people with ADHD it isn't — the list that felt achievable at 9am becomes a source of guilt by 3pm, and the tool keeps insisting on the original plan.
Approach
An adaptive energy tracker that watches how you actually work and reprioritizes what's left when your energy dips, wrapped in light gamification so the day feels like progress rather than a backlog. Built end to end with Lovable and n8n.
Outcome
Validated through structured feedback loops with 20 real users, each round feeding directly back into how the app reprioritizes.
Storytelling · Community
Born from one question — "what is invisible but essential about ESADE?" — this student initiative became a portrait gallery of 100+ students from across the world, each with a story no CV could hold. I lead the project, bringing these stories to light.
Automation · Built for myself
A job search that runs itself. PitchBook screens of high-growth companies feed a Notion database, and automations built with Apify and n8n pull in new roles and LinkedIn context so the pipeline stays current without me searching manually.
Strategy · Competition
A deliberately ambiguous business problem, a week to make sense of it. My team worked it down to a data-backed recommendation and presented it to consulting professionals — the closest thing to real strategy work under real time pressure.
Build · Competition
A cross-school build sprint: concept to working prototype and pitch, in a weekend.
(05) — Contact
I'm looking for product management and strategy roles at companies where "why are we building this?" gets taken seriously. If that sounds like your team, I'd love to talk.
Bhargavi Patil — MBA Candidate, ESADE Business & Law School · Barcelona