I'm Mahendra B

I got into product by building things first. Started as an Android dev, helped build a logistics startup from zero, then went to IIM Ahmedabad. Since then I've doubled subscription revenue at Paytm Money, launched a loyalty program to 10 million Paytm users, and built a capacity management platform from scratch at Nextuple.

I'm now at ARIS, running Supply Operations. That covers weighbridge integration, truck telematics and plant utilisation. It all used to run on phone calls and Excel. Now 13,500 dispatches a month across 9 plants are tracked live, and I'm working on generating challans straight off the weighbridge so billing doesn't wait a month for paper.

I like starting with data and ending with users. Numbers tell you what's happening; conversations tell you why. I've learned to resist jumping into solutions before understanding the problem properly, sometimes the hard way. I have strong opinions about products, but I try to hold them loosely enough to change my mind when the evidence says I should.

My everyday stack: Claude for research and thinking through specs, Claude Code for prototyping, Obsidian for building a second brain, and the usual Figma, SQL and Notion.