Aaron Kankipati

I'm a Product guy by profession. I build things with AI on the side because I'm curious, and because the best way to understand a tool is to make something real with it.

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AI Portfolio

I spend my days as a Product Owner at Wells Fargo. These two projects are what I built outside of that, on evenings and weekends, applying the same product thinking to problems I genuinely wanted solved for myself.

AI · Finance · Live

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Neon Bull

I gave an AI ₹10,000 and full control to trade the Indian stock market.

A personal research experiment, not a product pitch. I wanted to know if Claude could autonomously make trading decisions on real NSE data and hold its own. No human approves any trade. It runs entirely on its own, twice a day, every market day.

The question I wanted to answer — Can AI autonomously grow money in a real stock market? Every decision in this build is oriented around answering that honestly, not proving it works.

How it runs — Two Cloudflare cron jobs fire every weekday, one at 9:30 AM IST and one at 1:30 PM IST. The Worker pulls live prices from Yahoo Finance NSE (free, no API key needed), feeds them to Claude Sonnet with RSI, SMA and volume data, and executes the trade. NSE holidays are auto-detected and skipped. No server anywhere. No manual trigger required.

Built with guardrails — Groww brokerage charges are simulated on every trade, including STT, DP charges and GST, so the P&L is realistic. The experiment auto-pauses if the portfolio drops below starting capital. Stock names are fully hidden from the public dashboard to stay clear of any SEBI compliance concerns.

Infrastructure — Built entirely on Cloudflare Pages, Workers and KV for storage. Running cost is zero. The live dashboard shows the portfolio, today's sessions, trade history and P&L in real time.

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AI · Film · Live

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Moodfilm

I am not a developer by profession. I am a Product guy. I built this anyway.

An AI film curator that starts with a simple question: how are you feeling right now? Tell it your mood, pick a language (English, Hindi, or Telugu) and it finds a film matched to that emotional moment, not your watch history. Product thinking over code.

Discover the need — Most film apps recommend based on what you watched last week. I wanted something that started with how you feel right now. That gap felt worth solving.

Diagnose what was broken in v1 — I used my own product the way a real user would. Every poster showed the wrong film. The same blockbusters came up for every single mood. And there was no Hindi or Telugu support, which was the most requested thing after launch. Three clear problems, three backlog items.

Prioritise and ship v2 — Adding OMDb alongside TMDb pushed API calls to 170 per session against a free tier limit of 50. Rather than upgrade the plan, I redesigned the flow down to 22 calls, batched and parallelised. Claude now returns a numeric film ID so the poster is fetched directly. No guessing. Wrong poster eliminated. Language selection built in across every step.

The result — Loading takes 30 to 60 seconds, so I filled that time with 20 rotating film facts to keep users from dropping off. Every card now shows streaming availability by region so users know exactly where to watch. One tap sharing built in natively. 166 live sessions, 0 errors, 94% of issues resolved. Total cost: $0.

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The Person Behind the Work

About Me

I'm a Senior Product Owner and Team Lead based in Hyderabad with seven years in digital banking and fintech. I've spent most of that time owning one product deeply, sitting in discovery, writing user stories, managing the backlog, and seeing things through to go-live. The AI projects on this page are what I build on the side. Same discipline, different canvas.

2025 – Present

Senior Product Owner / Team Lead · Wells Fargo

Leading two Scrum teams across India and the US on a core banking migration for Certificate of Deposits. Owning the backlog from discovery through execution, and accountable for change governance, rollback planning, and business readiness at every migration phase.

2024 – 2025

Digital Product Manager · Wells Fargo

Owned the Small Business Digital Deposit Application end to end. Cut onboarding time from 18 minutes to 9. Reached a 66.5% fully digital completion rate, meaning most customers finished without ever visiting a branch. Won the Spotlight Award for the launch.

2022 – 2024

Business Analyst / Feature Lead · IDFC First Bank

Owned the conversational AI product suite including chatbots, IVR bots and a WhatsApp bot. The WhatsApp bot hit a 60% lead conversion rate and a 30% loan disbursement rate, which made it one of the stronger performing channels the bank had.

2020 – 2022

Product Owner · Piramal Finance

My first PO role. Owned the digital home loan platform on Salesforce. Worked with engineering to automate document processing using OCR and brought KYC verification time down to under 3 minutes. Won the Disha Champions of Change Award for the platform launch.

Backlog Ownership Agile / Scrum Digital Banking Core Banking Migration AI Products Change Governance Jira Team Leadership

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