A note from me

Hi, I’m Chhavi.

I’m an AI product manager at Huron, in the Office of the CTO.

I started as an engineer on Wall Street, then went to Carnegie Mellon to study product management. Along the way, I built a 0-to-1 platform for a humanitarian nonprofit and shaped go-to-market strategy with Honda Research Institute.

Product is the work I love most. It asks me to understand people, weigh trade-offs, and care about the details until the result feels obvious in hindsight.

I also write Mind the Gap, a newsletter about the small details in everyday products. And I’m rarely without a good book.

Three things I believe

Tap a card to flip it
I wrote about it When the Ice Cream Arrived Without the Flowers
I wrote about it Why Do Letters Still Exist on the Lock Screen Keypad?
I wrote about it Why General Magic broke my heart

The overlap

Three fields. Product is where they meet.

I’ve studied and worked across technology, business and design. The middle is the work I love most. Tap any part of the diagram.

The path

How I got here.

Engineering first, then business, then product.

Work

  1. AI Product ManagerHuron · Office of the CTO
    Now
  2. Capstone, go-to-market strategyHonda Research Institute
    2024
  3. Product intern, 0-to-1 platformCentre for Humanitarian Technology
    2024
  4. Senior Software Engineer, Compliance TechnologyNomura
    2018–22

Study

  1. MS in Product ManagementCarnegie Mellon · Tepper × School of Computer Science
    2023–24
  2. CORe certificateHarvard Business School Online
    2023
  3. Summer School, Critical ReadingUniversity of Oxford · Residential
    2022
  4. MS in Business and Information SystemsNew Jersey Institute of Technology
    2017–19
  5. Advanced Diploma, IT Systems Analysis & DesignUniversity of Oxford
    2016–17
  6. Bachelor’s in Computer ScienceWhere the engineering started
    2013–17

The shelf

Things that shaped how I build.

Books, a film and two talks I keep coming back to. Pull one off the shelf.

All essays

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