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    Gaurav Ragtah

    Gaurav Ragtah

    Product lead @milana, co-founder @catalyzex.
    Formerly @google @yelp @klout @linkedin @slideshare. Built @thisyathat.
    Alum @columbia @colgate-university.

    Product Manager San Francisco Bay Area Columbia University '16
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    Experience
    Milana
    Milana
    Founding Product Lead 2026 - Present (11 months)
    CatalyzeX
    CatalyzeX
    Founder, Co-founder & CEO 2020 - Present (almost 7 years)
    TED
    TED
    Resident
    Yelp
    Yelp
    Product Manager
    Google
    Google
    Data Engineer
    Lithium Technologies
    Exit
    Lithium Technologies
    Software and Research Engineer 2014 - 2015 (about 1 year)
    Klout
    Exit
    Klout
    Software and Research Engineer 2013 - 2015 (almost 2 years)
    Software Engineer 2012 (3 months)
    ThisYaThat.com
    ThisYaThat.com
    Founder, CTO 2012 - 2015 (about 3 years)
    Slideshare
    Exit
    Slideshare
    Software Engineer 2011 (3 months)
    (Acquired by LinkedIn)
    Profillic
    Profillic
    Founder: Product/ML/Eng 2018 - 2020 (about 2 years)
    • Iterated on MVPs across AI-powered technical recruiting, data science, and IP/tech transfer aiming for product-market fit
    ThisYaThat
    ThisYaThat
    Co-Founder & CTO: Product/Eng 2012 - 2015 (over 3 years)
    • Led design and development of webapp to compare book prices, delivery times, and payment options across online Indian bookstores • Drove $1M+ book sales, drove 12K+ monthly... more unique visitors, received national press coverage in India • 1st non-US venture to be backed by Wharton Innovation Fund, and won Wharton Entrepreneurship’s VIP Seed Award
    Founder
    CatalyzeX, ThisYaThat.com
    Employee
    Slideshare, Klout, Lithium Technologies, Google, Yelp, ThisYaThat, Profillic, TED, Milana
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    About
    Achievements

    Product-led growth, data science/ML, LLMs, RAG, agents, MCPs, agentic coding (Claude, Devin, Codex, Conductor, Cursor), technical & programmatic SEO/GEO, UI/UX prototyping, strategic partnerships & emerging distribution channels, conversion funnels & user journey optimization, web & app store optimization

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    Skills
    Public Speaking Technology Software Engineering Product Development Data Science User Research Product Strategy User Acquisition Usability Testing Growth Hacking Apache Hadoop Bash Hadoop Hbase Hive Infrastructure Java Matlab MongoDB Python Ruby on Rails Apache Spark Project Management Product Management Machine Learning Scala Shell Scripting Node.js SQL R Data Mining Natural Language Processing Deep Learning Backend Development Full Stack Development Software Architecture Web Development Apache/Spark/Databricks Figma Canva PostgreSQL Mixpanel LLMs Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Generative AI AI Driving Product Strategy Setting Metrics & Deliverables Leading Complex Cross-Functional Initiatives Product-Led Growth Data science/ML RAG Agents MCPs Agentic Coding Technical & Programmatic SEO/GEO UI/UX Prototyping Strategic Partnerships & Emerging Distribution Channels Conversion Funnels & User Journey Optimization Web & App Store Optimization Google Analytics Search Console Posthog Looker Tableau Hex Balsamiq N8n Zapier Retool Airtable Ruby Javascript TypeScript PHP C
    Locations
    Silicon Valley San Francisco Bay Area San Francisco
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