Deepak Nellikoppa

Product Manager and startup co-founder with 3+ years of experience building products across medical learning and pharmaceutical retail workflows. Translates retail stakeholder needs into product requirements, including assortment and substitute-brand mapping rules in SAP ERP, and builds AI-enabled products using Claude APIs and RAG. Strong in product discovery, prioritisation, product analytics (SQL, Firebase, Power BI) and cross-functional delivery across web, Android and iOS.

Co-founder & Product Manager - Broverg Corporation Pvt. Ltd.

(2023-05)

B2B Pharmaceutical Retail & ERP Workflows

• Collaborated with chain and independent pharmacy stakeholders across Tier 1 and Tier 2 markets to identify gaps in product hierarchy, brand mapping and substitute selection, and translated them into SAP ERP substitute-brand mapping rules, contributing to a reported 37% improvement in assortment coverage.
• Contributed to standardising substitute-brand mapping across multiple pharmaceutical brands, reducing ambiguity in substitute allocation and improving availability of alternate products.
• Applied demand-planning and inventory concepts (SKU-level demand patterns, substitute coverage, reorder-point logic) to pharmacy assortment and replenishment workflow discussions.

Product Manager - Broverg Corporation Pvt. Ltd.

(2024)

mymedicos Medical-learning platform for NEET PG, INI-CET, FMGE and NEET SS aspirants (web, Android, iOS)

• Owned product planning, prioritisation and delivery across Prep Quiz, QBank, AI Tutor, Flashcards, Community and Jobs Board, from discovery and requirements through launch and post-launch analysis.
• Ran product discovery through learner interviews, surveys, usability sessions and competitor benchmarking to shape feature and pricing decisions; tracked DAU/MAU, activation, retention and feature adoption using SQL and Firebase Analytics.
• Diagnosed a 40%+ drop-off before the first study session using funnel analysis and learner interviews, and prioritised onboarding improvements to get users to their first practice session.
• Defined scope, requirements and quality criteria for a production AI Tutor using Anthropic Claude APIs and RAG across 177,000+ medical MCQs.
• Contributed to AI-assisted faculty content workflows with doctor review, associated with a reported 60% reduction in manual effort.
• Wrote requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria and worked with 11 engineers, 7 marketing team members and 25 academic faculty to align dependencies and quality reviews.
• Coordinated 12 production iOS releases in three months with engineering and QA on release criteria, testing and App Store submissions.

Business Operations Intern - Suhasraddi Minerals

(2022-06 - 2023-04)

• Built KPI dashboards covering inventory, revenue forecasting, operational efficiency and SLA compliance.
• Mapped operational workflows and removed bottlenecks, reducing reporting turnaround time by 35%.
• Coordinated with production, sales, logistics and distribution stakeholders on operational execution.

B.E. - Mechanical Engineering - KLE Institute of Technology, Hubballi (VTU) (2019 - 2023)