SanjulSharma

I'm a Senior Platform Product Manager at PepsiCo, where I own the strategy and roadmap for the ML and data infrastructure that internal developer, data science, and analytics teams rely on. My customers aren't external users — they're the people inside the company turning data into consumer insights across a $2B+ portfolio in every global market — and my job is to make that shared infrastructure feel less like plumbing and more like leverage.

I didn't start in product. I began as a cloud engineer, standing up Kubernetes clusters and running enterprise cloud migrations end to end. That background shapes how I work: I'm comfortable in SQL and Python, I can go deep with engineers on architecture and trade-offs, and I translate between technical reality and business priorities without losing either. It's also why I gravitate toward platform work — the leverage of building something once that a hundred teams get to build on top of.

Over the last few years I've taken an ML forecasting platform from MVP to production adoption across 18+ business segments, defined the end-to-end lifecycle for how data products get built, governed, and retired, and secured multi-million-dollar funding by defending roadmap and ROI directly to senior leadership. Before PepsiCo, I built T-Mobile's first SMB sales platform from zero to $5M+ in month-one transaction volume. The through-line across all of it: taking ambiguous, ad-hoc problems and turning them into repeatable systems people actually trust.

I care a lot about the unglamorous parts of product — clear intake processes, sane governance, documentation people actually read — because that's usually what separates a platform that scales from one that quietly collapses under its own success. I try to lead with clarity: a good roadmap should be legible to an engineer, a data scientist, and an executive at the same time.

Outside of work, I build for the fun of it. I've written a Discord bot that runs an entire dynasty fantasy basketball league — contracts, free agency, salary caps, the works — and I'll happily automate anything I catch myself doing twice. I follow basketball a little too closely, and most of my side projects start as some version of "this should really just run itself."

Based in California