<ul><li>Built KLIK, a product reimagining sauce/sachet packets that tear the wrong way, an everyday-friction insight turned into a shippable concept; cleared round 1 against an international shortlist and presented to the jury panel.</li></ul>

Catalyst of Form, DesignX, 1st Place, KLIK,  Fixing the Sauce-Packet Tear, International Jury   Winner

<ul><li>Designed a voice-first product letting rural users discover and claim government welfare schemes in their own language, earned the panel's "Most Innovative UI" Award from a jury led by Blinkit's VP of Design.</li></ul>

Futura Designathon, DesignX, 3rd Place + Most Innovative UI Award, Voice-First Welfare Discovery for Rural India, Judged by VP Design, Blinkit   Bronze + Award

<ul><li>Sponsorship Head, Quantica Fest (2026): Owned corporate/institutional outreach; raised ₹6L+ in cash and in-kind via cold outreach, pitch decks, and multi-round negotiation. Earlier handled a ₹3.5L pool as Core Committee, Neutron Fest.</li><li>Clan Leader (Vijaya) &amp; Product Lead, DevX Arthakram Consulting Club (~1.5 yrs): Led product initiatives; organised 20+ events and speaker sessions; directed the Tech and Sports General Championships.</li><li>Clan Chief, Rishihood University: Student leadership role across inter-clan activities.</li></ul>

Bachelor of Technology

Computer Science

Intermediate (Class XII)

Science

Matriculation (Class X)

<ul><li>Founded and scaled SAST into a flagship student society in 2 years, driving 7+ initiatives — a satellite prototype showcased at Bharat Mandapam, the Nebula open-source program (~10K global views, featured in Hacktoberfest), three hackathons (48-hour, T-0, T+Delta); selected Regional Lead for NASA Space Apps Challenge</li><li>founded the autonomous Rover Innovation Team (RC plane, ornithopter, rover) managed through scoping, prioritisation, and milestone reviews.</li></ul>

Founder and President 

Rishihood University

India

Product-minded builder and Founder & President of SAST targeting Associate Product Manager / Product Management internship roles. 7 wins across 6 competitions in one semester (3× 1st, 1× 2nd, 2× 3rd + Most Innovative UI Award), judged by senior leaders from Expedia Group (PM), JP Morgan (Executive), and Blinkit (VP Design). Shipped 5+ live applications including LXOS, oﬃcially approved by Rishihood University for daily operations. Owns products end-to-end from
user research and North-Star metric design through PRD, wireframing, feature prioritization, build, GTM, and adoption tracking; biased toward data-driven decisions, cross-functional execution, and shipping.

Python, Flask, Server-Sent Events, REST API Integration, Apollo.io, Prospeo, Brevo, Pydantic, Gunicorn<ul><li>Designed and shipped a fully autonomous 4-stage outreach engine, one company domain in, personalised verified-email outreach out, chaining company discovery → decision-maker sourcing → email resolution → personalised send across 4 integrated third-party APIs with zero manual steps and a single human-approval checkpoint before any email fires.</li><li>Engineered a fault-tolerant integration layer, exponential-backoff retries honouring Retry-After, per-provider rate-limit throttling, typed error handling, and multi-provider fallback (auto-switches Ocean.io → Apollo.io on plan limits), cutting Stage-1 sourcing to 1 API credit/run and making partial failures non-fatal (skips bad records, never crashes the run).</li><li>Built two interfaces over one core engine, a CLI and a real-time web app (Flask + Server-Sent Events) that streams every stage live, plus an idempotent resumable run-state store and a cross-run suppression list guaranteeing no contact is emailed twice; deployed to production on a custom domain (Render + Cloudflare, HTTPS).</li></ul> &nbsp;

Outreach Pipeline - Autonomous Cold-Outreach Engine

Next.js 14, MongoDB, NextAuth, FullCalendar, Recharts<ul><li>Designed and shipped a 12-module role-based operating system consolidating every student and administrative workflow, &nbsp;Dashboard, Feed, Calendar, Events, Clubs, Clans, Rooms, Budget, Achievements, Analytics, Reimbursements, and Approvals, with granular role permissions (Student, Club Lead, Clan Lead, Admin) governing every action and approval path.</li><li>Officially approved by Rishihood University for daily operations; replaced fragmented Excel and WhatsApp workflows across the institution, cut administrative cycle time materially, and gave students and administration real-time transparency into every request, booking, reimbursement, approval, achievement, and event in a single source of truth.</li></ul>

Neelanshu Karn

Social Accounts

Achievements

Projects

Outreach Pipeline - Autonomous Cold-Outreach Engine

LXOS - Learner Experience Operating System

Experience

Founder and President

Education

Newton School of Technology, Rishihood University

IPEM International School and College, Prayagraj

IPEM International School and College, Prayagraj

Certificates

Catalyst of Form, DesignX, 1st Place, KLIK, Fixing the Sauce-Packet Tear, International Jury Winner

Futura Designathon, DesignX, 3rd Place + Most Innovative UI Award, Voice-First Welfare Discovery for Rural India, Judged by VP Design, Blinkit Bronze + Award

Skills