I am a Senior Product Manager in Bengaluru with more than fifteen years in enterprise SaaS and platform products across fintech and payments. At Stixis Technologies I own convenience retail payments, indoor payment terminals, car wash and loyalty for US oil majors including Shell and Chevron. Before that I led payments, checkout and omni-channel programs across the GCC and Egypt for 6thStreet.com and Apparel Group, and spent five years at Finastra on SWIFT payment implementations for US and EU banks. I started my career in quality assurance for banking and payments, which still shapes how I think about releases.
Work
Below are some of my recent projects. Please request for the complete walkthrough of the locked projects.
01
Database-Connected AI Chatbot with Evals
Built a chatbot in five stages, from a plain OpenAI call to a system that remembers the conversation, calls tools and answers from a live database, then traced every answer in Langfuse and had AI judges score it.
02
Podcast Search MCP Server
Turned a semantic search engine over 1,009 product and technology podcast episodes into an MCP server, so an AI assistant can search the library, read transcripts, keep notes and run research briefs.
03
Personal AI Agent with Voice
Built an agent that searches and reads the web, remembers me between sessions, runs a job search from my resume, and answers the phone, with chat and voice sharing one memory.
04
Podcast RAG and Fine-Tuning
Built a question answering app over 149 podcast transcripts and saw why chunking matters, then fine-tuned a small open model to speak in a persona of my choosing.
Thoughts & Ideas
Notes on payments products: checkout conversion, compliance releases, and what quality assurance taught me about product management.
What Quality Assurance Taught Me About Product Management
Compliance Releases Should Be Boring
Checkout Conversion Is Often a Payments Problem
Experience
More than fifteen years in banking and payments, from quality assurance on SWIFT flows to owning payments, checkout and loyalty products.
A payment that fails quietly costs more than one that fails loudly.
Stack
The models, databases and tools I used to build and ship the AI products on this page, from the first chatbot to RAG and fine-tuning.
in short
Own convenience retail payments, car wash and loyalty products for US oil majors such as Shell and Chevron at Stixis
Shivaprasad skipped presentations and built real AI products. Want to know how?
Shivaprasad Patil was part of the August 2026 cohort at Curious PM, alongside 24 other talented participants.
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