Faseel Anwar

AI Product Manager

Dubai, UAE. Pan-GCC higher-education guidance firm.

• Owns the vision, roadmap and success metrics for a career-guidance platform for students aged 13 to 18 and their parents, live on web, iOS and Android and now in a pilot with five schools.
• Coordinates a 15+ person external development team by work package, with scope, acceptance criteria and formal sign-off, with one package held back as only partially delivered.
• Authored the strategy and business case for a multi-year lifecycle model, built on three business models: B2C consulting, B2C subscription and B2B2C school licences.
• Defined the metric tree (activation, booking conversion, day-7 and month-1 retention, NPS) and three researched user personas.
• Built two career assessment engines covering 140 careers and a 1,260-question bank, with deterministic, traceable scoring and a language model translating the results.
• Built the public website and the admin and CMS behind it personally with Claude Code. Role-based access is designed to let landing pages, content and reporting ship without an engineering queue.
• Set governance for under-18 users: privacy, bias audits, parental consent and human approval before new content goes live.

Decisions worth asking about

• Rules wherever a recommendation must be explained. Chose deterministic models over fine-tuned LLMs for those parts of the recommendation engine.
• AI rewrites are checked against the facts. Any rewrite that adds, drops or changes a figure, date or name is discarded, and the rule-based text is kept.
• Spec review before build. Surfaced nine specification gaps in a flagship feature before engineers started.

Product Manager and Growth Lead (Fixed Term)

London, UK, in person. Custom software development firm for YC-backed startups.

• Owned the roadmap for a European sports SaaS marketplace, re-sequencing high-ROI features and removing bottlenecks to deliver 50% faster releases and 60% lower direct costs.
• Built a $2m pipeline and secured $600k in signed contracts through referral partnerships across the UK and Europe.
• Built workflow automations with n8n and Apify for lead collection and multi-channel outreach (email, LinkedIn, Twitter), then A/B tested the workflows, lifting response rates 35% and qualified leads 50%.

MBA, Saïd Business School

Oxford, UK. Business, Strategy and Innovation, as a member of St Cross College.

Won the Capitox Consulting Challenge among 20 teams and the MBATs Quiz at HEC Paris, finished runners-up at Wharton MIINT, and worked as a student consultant with the Creative Destruction Lab and Capitox. Life Member of the Oxford Union.

Founder and Product Manager

Kolkata, India. Bespoke app and web development firm. augendtech.com

• Delivered 30+ web and mobile products for 25+ clients across eight countries, leading a team of 10 and achieving a 35% average KPI uplift, 25% higher retention and NPS 80+.
• Built an omni-channel booking and membership platform with real-time sync, and a last-mile e-commerce and delivery app with vendor and fulfilment integrations and third-party payments and logistics APIs.
• ByeBuyy, a C2C marketplace app, reached 30,000 downloads before the client’s in-house team took it over.

Founder and Product Manager

Kolkata, India. Tutoring for high school students.

• Grew a tutoring business from one branch to three, teaching 12,000+ students in total, with 30+ teachers recruited and trained.
• Built the digital learning platform for scheduling, fees, assessments and dashboards, lifting productivity 30%, then launched a revenue-sharing course marketplace with in-house and external educators that doubled course offerings within six months.

Senior Faculty, Mathematics and Computer Science

Kolkata, India

Three years teaching mathematics and computer science to about 250 students a year.

Software Engineer

Kolkata, India

Saved £200k re-engineering batch processing on Santander’s UK card-processing backend, serving 100k customers.