Engineer → Product Manager · GovTech · AI · SaaS

I build digital
products that
operate at scale.

I started as a software engineer. Eight years later, I lead products that millions depend on — across AI SaaS, GovTech, and B2B platforms. Engineering instinct plus product thinking: I read the diff, prototype the idea, and still close the sprint.

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Impact in Numbers

8+

Years

of product leadership experience

170M+

Citizens

reached across national platforms

94%

Accuracy

AI matching precision on Voxcruit

500

Clients

acquired from zero in 6 months

$200K

Saved

annual operating cost reduction

60%

Growth

platform engagement increase

1M+

Downloads

mobile app installs in 30 days

35%

Retention

increase driven through experimentation

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Selected Work

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Senior Product Manager (Lead)

Penta Global Ltd.

July 2023 – Present

Own end-to-end product strategy and delivery across concurrent AI SaaS, data, and enterprise product lines — working directly alongside a small engineering team, running tight sprint cycles, and maintaining relentless focus on shipping measurable improvements each week.

1M+

Mobile downloads in 30 days

94%

AI matching accuracy

47

Enterprise offices served

02

Senior Product Manager

ArchiConnect

May 2022 – June 2023

Built the country's first professional marketplace for building professionals and a dedicated construction materials e-commerce — scaled from zero to 500 clients in 6 months with a 25-person cross-functional team.

80%

MoM revenue growth

35%

Retention increase

30%

Conversion uplift

03

Product Manager & Co-Founder

Rokkhi IT Solutions Ltd.

November 2018 – April 2022

Co-founded and ran an on-demand home services marketplace — owning product vision, fundraising, team building, and P&L all at once. Built during COVID, scaled through it.

60%

Engagement growth

$0.5M

VC funding secured

$200K

Annual cost reduction

04

Product Manager

Plan International Bangladesh

October 2017 – October 2018

Contributed to MVP design and product architecture for a social impact mobile application serving urban communities across Bangladesh.

10+

Communities field-researched

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Beyond Product Management

I don't just ship products.
I build the teams, systems,
and companies behind them.

From co-founding a startup and raising venture capital, to governing national digital infrastructure and doing field research in urban slums — my work has never fit neatly inside a job description.

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Co-Founding & Entrepreneurship

Started as the founding engineer at Rokkhi — built the backend and mobile frontend from scratch, then scaled into product and team leadership. Grew platform engagement 60%, held NPS 60+, and cut operating costs by $200K through data-driven process improvements.

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Cross-functional Leadership

Ran 3 simultaneous product tracks across 6 cross-functional teams of 25 people at ArchiConnect — all delivered on time and under budget. At Penta Global, directed ERP rollout for the Anti-Corruption Commission of Bangladesh across 47 distributed offices, from requirements through go-live.

03

National-Scale Governance

Took ownership of Bangladesh's national digital infrastructure — the Election Management System (1M+ downloads in 30 days, zero downtime under peak load) and BDRIS National Digital ID. Operating at government scale demands a different kind of product discipline.

04

Social Impact & Field Research

Solo-built the Gorjon app end-to-end — designed the database, architected the backend, and shipped the mobile frontend. Conducted user research across 10 slum communities and translated findings directly into product decisions. No intermediary, no handoff.

05

PM Mentorship

Mentored 5 junior product managers — working through roadmap thinking, stakeholder communication, prioritisation frameworks, and the hard stuff no course teaches. Good PMs make other PMs better. That's the multiplier.

06

Business Consultancy

Advised two online businesses on strategy, marketing, and startup culture — a food and bakery brand and a fashion label specialising in inclusive sizing. Helped them build business plans, define growth levers, and think like operators, not just sellers.

25

People led across teams

5

Junior PMs mentored

100+

Stakeholder interviews run

10+

Communities field-researched

3

Startups founded or advised

8+

Years across engineering & product

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Recognition

Award

BASIS National ICT Award

BASIS

2019

Award

Entrepreneur of the Year

ICT Division

2019

Grant

Startup Grant

ICT Division, Bangladesh

2019

Champion

Ideathon Champion

National Competition

2018

Champion

BIZ-Fiesta Champion

National Competition

2018

Runner-up

Get in the Ring — Runner-up

Global Startup Competition

2019

Runner-up

BRACATHON — Runner-up

BRAC Hackathon

2019

Runner-up

National Hackathon — Runner-up

ICT Division

2018

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Skills

What I bring
to the table

Product & Strategy

0→1 Product BuildingCustomer Feedback LoopsFast Iteration & CadenceMetrics Definition & MovementPrioritisation (RICE / MoSCoW)Roadmapping & PRDsGTM StrategyPricing & Packaging

AI & Technical

LLM Prototyping (Claude, Codex, GPT)AI-Native Product DevelopmentData Pipeline ProductsSearch & Intelligence ProductsCodebase NavigationWorkflow AutomationRapid MVP Development

Analytics & Data

A/B TestingFunnel OptimisationKPI Tracking & OKRsProduct AnalyticsSQLMixpanelGoogle AnalyticsTableau / Metabase

Execution & Delivery

Agile / ScrumSprint PlanningBacklog ManagementStakeholder ManagementCross-functional DeliveryUAT & Release ManagementFigmaJira / ClickUp / Notion
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About

Engineer
turned
Product Lead.

Plabon Shekh

I started as a software engineer. I wrote code, debugged systems, and learned how products actually get built — from the inside. That instinct never left. It just became the lens through which I do product.

Eight years in, that foundation is the edge. I talk to engineers in their language, catch architectural risk before it becomes a product problem, and prototype ideas with LLM tooling before handing them off. It's why I move faster than most PMs — and ship things that actually hold together under load.

That path led me through national-scale GovTech (Bangladesh's Election System, BDRIS), AI/ML platforms (Voxcruit, CDR Analytics), B2B SaaS marketplaces, and a co-founded startup — each one a different kind of hard.

BSc Computer Science, University of Dhaka. BBA Entrepreneurship, Daffodil International University. BASIS National ICT Award. ICT Division Entrepreneur of the Year, 2019.

Certifications — Digital Product Management · Product Management Career Program · Google Data Analytics · Agile Methodology for Startups · Python Essentials for Data Science · AI Generalist

“The best products aren't built by shipping features — they're built by deeply understanding the problem until the right solution becomes obvious.”

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Contact

Let's build

something real.

GovTech · AI/ML · Enterprise SaaS · Remote or Global