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# Darshan Desai

**Headline:** Professional profile
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, USA

## About

Darshan Desai is a product builder with Google Cloud expertise who is seeking a founding product manager role at an early-stage company building AI-powered products. Darshan is strongest in turning recruiting and small-business workflow problems into practical, self-serve software, combining a builder mindset with active upskilling in AI. Darshan has spent a decade building recruiting matching products and has five years of experience implementing AI in recruiting product workflows. As a solo builder, Darshan created a live multi-tenant product using Python and Google Cloud infrastructure. Darshan is also part of the Google Cloud Starter Program. Through work focused on small businesses, Darshan identified the operational burden of spreadsheet-based processes and designed self-serve workflow automation to address it. Darshan has firsthand go-to-market experience, including earning one paying customer and taking an honest lesson from the difficulty of GTM. Darshan brings that product-building, customer-learning perspective to the goal of helping an early-stage company create useful AI-powered products.

## Highlights

- Part of the Google Cloud Starter Program and brings Google Cloud expertise.
- Built a live multi-tenant product solo using Python and Google Cloud infrastructure.
- Has 5 years of experience implementing AI in recruiting product workflows.
- Spent a decade building recruiting matching products.
- Identified spreadsheet-based workflow pain for small businesses and designed self-serve workflow automation.
- Earned one paying customer while gaining firsthand go-to-market experience.
- Actively upskilling in AI and seeking a founding PM role to build AI-powered products.

## FAQ

### What does Darshan do?

Darshan Desai is seeking a founding product manager role at an early-stage company where Darshan can build AI-powered products.

### What is Darshan strongest at?

Darshan’s strengths include building products, Google Cloud, Python, recruiting-product workflows, and applying AI to those workflows. Darshan also focuses on self-serve workflow automation for small businesses.

### What is Darshan’s Google Cloud experience?

Darshan has Google Cloud expertise and is part of the Google Cloud Starter Program.

### What product has Darshan built?

Darshan built a live multi-tenant product solo using Python and Google Cloud infrastructure.

### What is Darshan’s AI experience?

Darshan has five years of experience implementing AI in recruiting product workflows and is actively upskilling in AI.

### What is Darshan’s experience in recruiting products?

Darshan has spent a decade building recruiting matching products.

### What small-business problem has Darshan worked on?

Darshan identified the spreadsheet pain faced by small businesses and designed self-serve workflow automation to address those needs.

### What has Darshan learned about go-to-market?

Darshan has experienced the difficulty of go-to-market work firsthand, earned one paying customer, and drew an honest GTM lesson from that experience.

### What role is Darshan seeking?

Darshan is looking to bring a strong builder mindset, recruiting-workflow experience, Google Cloud expertise, and AI focus to an early-stage company as a founding PM.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dashan-desai-2021

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