Hi, my name is

Shivani Avasarala.

I'm a product manager with a CS background from USC (BS + MS) and two years of end-to-end ownership at Metrum AI, where I led a 0→1 AI benchmarking B2B SaaS platform from early prototype to 10+ enterprise users.

I bridge product and engineering, with a technical foundation to work through architecture decisions with the team, and product sense to stay grounded in user problems. Before Metrum, I interned at Intel building ML tooling and did NLP research at USC's SAIL lab.

I'm currently building side projects and open to my next role at the intersection of AI, product, and meaningful impact. I'd love to connect!

Shivani Avasarala
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// Experience

Where I've Worked

Jan 2024 — Jan 2026
Product Manager / Product Growth Lead
Metrum AI · Full-time
Owned vision, strategy, and roadmap for a 0→1 AI benchmarking B2B SaaS platform, driving feature prioritization and sprint planning to onboard 10+ enterprise users in under 12 months. Shipped 20+ features over 2 years with a 4-week average release cadence, including an agentic LLM-powered feature that automated complex manual benchmark workflows end-to-end. Built AI analytics infrastructure across 100+ LLM performance data points using Cursor and Claude.
0→1 Product AI/ML B2B SaaS LLM Evaluation Roadmapping
May 2023 — Dec 2023
NLP Research Intern
USC SAIL Lab · Research (submitted to AAAI-24)
Built an AI pipeline to analyze behavioral trends across 1.2M Twitter healthcare records during COVID-19 (Python, Transformers, GPT-3.5). Applied large-scale data analysis and SQL to form and validate hypotheses about real-world healthcare patterns.
NLP Python Transformers Data Analysis
Jun 2021 — May 2022
Software Engineering / ML Intern
Intel Corporation · IoT Group / US Video Team
Built an internal no-code ML pipeline dashboard (Node.js, OpenVINO, DLStreamer) for the IoT Group, collaborating daily with engineers to ship a scalable tool with full documentation. Presented AI-powered solutions at ISC West 2022 to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Node.js OpenVINO ML Pipelines IoT
Jun 2018 — Dec 2023
M.S. + B.S. Computer Science / Computer Engineering
University of Southern California, Viterbi · GPA 3.77
Master of Science in Computer Science (2022–2023) and Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering and Computer Science (2018–2022). Recipient of the Trustee Full Tuition Scholarship; Dean's List. Coursework in ML, NLP, distributed systems, algorithms, and HCI.
USC Machine Learning NLP Distributed Systems
// Projects

Things I've Built

01.
SongNotes
A visual, social music profile app that extracts and visualizes insights from users' Spotify profiles. Built from idea to shipped product using AI-native development tools (Figma, Claude Code, Next.js, React).
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02.
Text-to-SQL
Coming soon.
In progress →
// Contact

Let's Talk

I'm currently open to new opportunities at the intersection of AI, product, and meaningful impact. Whether you have a role, an idea, or just want to trade notes, my inbox is open!

shivani1408@gmail.com