Exploring Product, Business Analysis & Consulting roles across APAC

Avinash Mukundan

Adaptable Vision Driven Implementor (Avi)

CX Ops & Product, AI systems and business analysis. I build from concept to revenue, with 5+ years across AI native SaaS, B2B products and B2C experiences, pairing systems thinking with customer empathy.

Sydney, NSW 2007avinashmukund1111@gmail.com0469 395 822
About

Bridging data, product, and decision making.

I help organisations turn customer signals into shipped product, pairing analytics rigour with the facilitation craft of a Certified Scrum Product Owner. My work spans quick commerce, financial services, retail and AI platforms, always anchored on measurable customer outcomes.

5+

Years across SaaS, CX & AI

350+

Clients delivered to globally

$15M

Largest client secured in 3 months

18%

Lift in AI conversational accuracy

Strategy

Product vision grounded in customer evidence, roadmaps, OKRs and business cases that align executives and delivery teams.

Systems

CRM, CX and AI platforms architected end to end: Salesforce, HubSpot, Amplitude and conversational AI stacks that scale.

Storytelling

Analytics translated into narratives decision makers act on, from boardroom briefs to sprint level acceptance criteria.

Education

Systems thinking, combined with analytics rigour.

Electrical and electronics engineering at VIT Chennai, then business analytics at the University of Technology Sydney.

2024 – 2025

Master of Business Analytics

University of Technology Sydney

Postgraduate Academic Excellence International Scholarship

The analytics rigour: predictive modelling, machine learning, data visualisation and business strategy, delivered through studio based industry projects with real datasets.

Machine Learning (36106)Data Visualisation (32146)Business Analytics Studio 1–3Financial Analysis (22788)
Undergraduate

Bachelor of Technology, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai

The systems thinking foundation: engineering discipline from circuits to control systems, and the habit of modelling a problem properly before solving it.

Power & Control SystemsElectronics & Embedded SystemsEngineering MathematicsEnactus VIT leadership
Credentials

Certified, and kept current.

Formal credentials across product ownership, AI, CRM operations and process excellence.

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO®) AI for Product Owners Salesforce Sales Operations Specialization Lean Six Sigma Green Belt HubSpot, All Apps Amplitude Certified IBM AI Product Management MECCA Brands Business Analyst Virtual Experience
Journey

Phase 0 to today, and where it goes next.

This portfolio is an extension of past work rather than a highlight reel: how the practice matured from operations, to product ownership, to AI enabled decision systems, with the next phase intentionally open to discussion.

Phase 000

2021 to 2022

Foundations, analytics & CX operations

Built the operating muscle: CRM hygiene, service workflows and reporting that leaders could actually trust.

  • Kapture CX and Salesforce operations across 350+ client accounts
  • Standardised CX reporting, SLAs and escalation paths
  • Lean Six Sigma process redesign on high volume queues

Tools in play

Kapture CXSalesforceMoEngageExcelSQL
Phase 101

2022 to 2024

Product ownership, discovery to delivery

Moved from running the system to shaping it, owning backlogs, roadmaps and measurable outcome targets.

  • CSPO led discovery, backlog and release facilitation
  • Omnichannel CRM consolidation and migration sequencing
  • Benefit cases tied to retention, cost to serve and NPS

Tools in play

FreshworksHubSpotZendeskZohoJIRAPower BIAmplitude
Phase 2, current02

2024 to now

AI enabled decision systems

Pairing product ownership with AI and automation: conversational copilots, executive reporting and governed AI adoption.

  • AI VoC copilot: +18% conversational accuracy, human in the loop guardrails
  • Executive dashboards consolidating a single audited source of truth
  • AI governance framing aligned to ISO 42001 / 27001 expectations

Tools in play

n8nZapierMakeClaudeVertex AgentsLovableGleanPythonTableau
Next03

Where this goes

Future scope, open to discussion

Autonomous remediation and predictive risk scoring across HR SaaS workflows, shaped with the team, not prescribed.

  • Predictive risk scoring on delivery and customer health signals
  • Automated weekly executive briefing drafts
  • Cross system actions through core platform APIs

Tools in play

MCPAgentic workflowsPlatform APIsEvaluation harnesses
Projects & Experience

Selected work, end to end.

Each engagement from discovery through delivery, the workflow, the impact and the skills behind it.

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academicBusiness & CX2024

Online Education Market, Pricing & Demand

UTS, 23708 Studio 1: Foundation

Statistical study of what drives subscriber engagement on Udemy: price, content length and course complexity.

  1. 1Profiled price and subscriber distributions, identifying multimodal pricing clusters
  2. 2Built simple and multivariate regression models for subscriber counts
  3. 3Tested price sensitivity and content length effects over time
  4. 4Translated coefficients into pricing and catalogue recommendations
Impact, Found demand concentrated at the $0–10 and $90–100 price points with a steep fall above $130, and a heavily right skewed subscriber distribution where most courses stay under 1,000 subscribers.
Regression AnalysisPrice ElasticityMarket SizingExcel
academicBusiness & CX2024

PHI Market Policy Intervention Analysis

UTS, 23708 Studio 1: Foundation

Economic evaluation of three government responses to declining private hospital insurance membership among younger Australians.

  1. 1Analysed APRA membership data to size the 25–34 cohort decline and death spiral risk
  2. 2Modelled an age based subsidy, a lowered Medicare Levy Surcharge threshold and medical device cost regulation
  3. 3Assessed each option against market equilibrium and fiscal cost
  4. 4Recommended a sequenced intervention with monitoring measures
Impact, Framed the affordability spiral in supply and demand terms and showed which lever moves younger membership at the lowest fiscal cost.
Policy AnalysisMarket EquilibriumAPRA DataEconomic Modelling
academicBusiness & CX2024

Freshworks Customer Journey & Value Communication

UTS, 24748 Deliver Customer Value

Two stage CX study mapping the Freshworks buyer journey for a defined persona, then auditing how the company communicates value.

  1. 1Built a persona anchored journey map across awareness, evaluation, onboarding and advocacy
  2. 2Identified friction touchpoints and unmet needs at each stage
  3. 3Ran a social media audit and critiqued value communication consistency
  4. 4Recommended messaging and touchpoint changes tied to journey gaps
Impact, Connected specific journey friction points to the messaging that caused them, the same VoC to roadmap loop I now run commercially.
Journey MappingValue PropositionCX ResearchSocial Media Audit
academicBusiness & CX2024

Telstra vs TPG, Financial Performance Review

UTS, 22788 Accounting Practices and Tools

Ratio driven comparison of Telstra against TPG Telecom, with horizontal and vertical analysis and forward performance estimates.

  1. 1Computed profitability, liquidity, efficiency and capital structure ratios for both carriers
  2. 2Ran horizontal and vertical analysis over the most recent reporting years
  3. 3Visualised comparative trends to isolate structural versus cyclical differences
  4. 4Projected future performance and framed strategic recommendations
Impact, Identified Telstra's asset efficiency strength alongside liquidity and capital structure exposure worth monitoring.
Financial RatiosHorizontal/Vertical AnalysisCompetitor Benchmarking
academicBusiness & CX2024

Footloose Travel, Investment Appraisal

UTS, 25720 Applied Financial Management

Financial analysis and pro forma projections for a travel business recovering post pandemic, including a hotel refurbishment investment case.

  1. 1Reviewed FY22–FY23 historical financials and recovery trajectory
  2. 2Built pro forma statements for the following fiscal year
  3. 3Appraised the O'Riordan Hotel refurbishment investment
  4. 4Stress tested the plan against a volatile demand environment
Impact, Showed how disciplined working capital management funds growth investment without compromising recovery phase resilience.
Pro Forma ModellingInvestment AppraisalScenario Analysis
professionalBusiness & CX2023

Omnichannel CRM Consolidation

Bajaj Finserv

Led consolidation of five fragmented CRM instances into a single Salesforce Sales & Service Cloud operating model.

  1. 1Audited 5 instances and 60+ overlapping workflows
  2. 2Negotiated a unified data model with compliance and risk
  3. 3Sequenced migration in 4 releases with zero downtime
  4. 4Trained 300+ agents and instituted adoption dashboards
Impact, Single customer view for 300+ agents; 22% reduction in case handling time; audit ready data lineage.
Kapture CXSalesforceChange ManagementData MigrationStakeholder Management

Academic work & attribution. Projects marked academic were completed at the University of Technology Sydney between 2024 and 2025, several as team assignments, collaborators are credited in the source reports. Datasets are publicly available (Kaggle, ABS, APRA, OSMI, NSW Government open data) and used for study purposes only; no confidential client data appears here. Commercial work is described at a level agreed with each client.

With gratitude to the UTS faculty, mentors and teammates who shaped this work. Detailed reports and notebooks are available on request. © 2026 Avinash Mukundan. All rights reserved.

CX Transformations

Case studies in customer experience.

Deep engagements where product thinking and analytics changed how organisations serve their customers.

Quick Commerce

Zepto

Delivered with Kapture CX

Challenge

Support volumes were scaling faster than headcount. Response quality was inconsistent, and product teams had no structured read on why customers were contacting support.

18%
conversational accuracy lift
27%
faster first response
3 wks
pilot to national go or no go
  1. 1Mapped the end to end support journey and quantified the top contact drivers
  2. 2Defined the copilot MVP scope: intent detection, guided resolution, escalation
  3. 3Configured Kapture CX helpdesk workflows alongside Salesforce Service Cloud records
  4. 4Wired MoEngage campaign and engagement events into the conversation context
  5. 5Institutionalised a VoC feed from conversation themes into roadmap planning
Kapture CXSalesforce Service CloudMoEngageConversational AIVoC AnalyticsAmplitude
Financial Services

Bajaj Finserv

Delivered with Kapture CX

Challenge

Five business lines ran separate CRM instances with conflicting customer records. Agents re keyed data across systems, and compliance had no single audit trail.

22%
reduction in case handling time
300+
agents on one customer view
0
minutes of migration downtime
Kapture CXSalesforce Sales CloudService CloudData MigrationChange Management
Retail

Reliance Industries

Delivered with Kapture CX

Challenge

Store and digital teams optimised against different KPIs, so promotions cannibalised each other and customer journeys broke at the channel handoff.

14%
promo incrementality improvement
sprint velocity after coaching
1
shared journey dashboard
Kapture CXSalesforceProduct DiscoveryOKRsJourney AnalyticsScrum Facilitation
Skills & Expertise

A full stack product toolkit.

Product & Strategy

Product VisionRoadmappingDiscovery & DefinitionUser InterviewsUser StoriesOKRsPrioritisation

Business Analysis

Requirements GatheringProcess MappingGap AnalysisBPMNBRDs, PRDs & RFPsBusiness CasesUATWorkshop Facilitation

AI & Agents

AI Agents & CopilotsLLM Evaluation & BenchmarkingModel Context Protocol (MCP)Guardrails & Human in the LoopIntelligent AutomationResponsible AI

Analytics & Data

Predictive ModellingData VisualisationA/B TestingCohort AnalysisForecastingVoC AnalyticsSQLPython

Delivery & Change

CSPO & AgileScrum FacilitationChange ManagementProcess OptimisationLean Six Sigma Green BeltStakeholder Management

CX & CRM Platforms

Kapture CXSalesforce Sales & Service CloudMoEngageFreshworksHubSpotZendeskZoho

Automation, AI & Delivery Tools

n8nZapierMakeVertex AgentsClaudeChatGPTLovablev0GleanPower BITableauLookerAmplitudeGA4SQLPythonJIRAConfluenceNotionMiroFigma
Contact

Let’s Work Together

Whether it’s a product discovery, a CX transformation or an AI initiative that needs an owner, I’d love to hear about it.