Marina Beach, Chennai
I solve customer problems. Sales and product taught me how.
Sathya J is an MBA candidate in Product Management and Marketing at Great Lakes Chennai, class of 2027.
What I have built
Projects
- AI buildsWinner · 2026
AI hackathon winner: sales-call handoff workflow
Won the company AI hackathon in 2026 with an LLM workflow that turns sales call transcripts into structured handoff notes.
- LLM
- AI buildsLive
Thunai
A gamified habit tracker, built and shipped solo in a week. 102 signups, and a case study on why only 11 came back for a second day.
- Product
- Retention
- Supabase
- AI builds
Document Q&A (RAG system)
A retrieval-augmented system that answers questions from documents.
- RAG
- LLM
- AI builds
Analytical AI agent
An agent that understands and summarises structured data to answer analytical questions.
- AI agent
- Data
- AI builds
Multi-agent workflow
Multi-agent workflows built with CrewAI, where specialised agents collaborate on a task.
- CrewAI
- Agents
Career, newest first
Mission log
- Education
Class of 2027 · CGPA 3.22 · Product Management and Marketing
MBA (PGPM)
Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai
- Member, Product Management Club, GLIM C · 2026
- B.Com (General), RKM Vivekananda College, 2020 · 72.4%
- Member, Student Council, RKM Vivekananda College · 2020
- Builds
2026
AI and product builds
Company and academic projects
- AI hackathon winner · 2026 Won the company AI hackathon by prototyping an LLM workflow that turns sales call transcripts into structured handoff notes.
- Built a document question-answering RAG system.
- Built an AI agent that understands and summarises structured data to answer analytical questions.
- Built multi-agent workflows with CrewAI.
- Thunai is a habit-tracking web app, built and shipped independently and now live with real users.
- Product
May 2024 – Apr 2026
Senior associate, Product
Pickyourtrail
- 6,200 hrs/yr of manual coordination cut across a 40-member account management team by converting each responsibility into a deadline-driven task model.
- Power BI layer built with data science and analytics, piping MongoDB data into SQL to run monthly retire/continue reviews on every live feature.
- 3× margin retained per cancelled booking by benchmarking competitor policies and rebuilding the fee structure into a tiered model with finance.
- GST/TCS regulatory change delivered with finance and engineering across 4 customer and internal touchpoints.
- −60% overstated exposure on the destination reviewed, cut by tracing errors across 3 supplier platforms and the content system.
- 10% → 85% adoption across 60 internal users by specifying a feature that automated tax and margin computation.
- Sales
Jan 2021 – Jun 2022
Team lead, Sales
Pickyourtrail
- Advised customers across Indian and international markets, consistently meeting revenue targets through consultative selling.
- 90% attainment sustained leading a 5-member team through an industry-wide standstill while carrying a personal book.
Profile
About Sathya
Sathya started in sales, advising customers across Indian and international markets, then moved into product at Pickyourtrail, where the work meant pricing, regulation, dashboards and adoption, all measured.
Now completing an MBA (PGPM) at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, with a focus on Product Management and Marketing, Sathya is looking for product and consulting roles, with consulting as the long-term pull: the chance to solve a different problem in a different industry every time. AI is where Sathya puts in the most effort, building agents, RAG systems and multi-agent workflows hands-on and applying them to real business problems.
Core competencies
- Structured problem solving
- Business analysis
- Process re-engineering
- Stakeholder management
- AI agents and RAG systems
- Multi-agent workflows (CrewAI)
- Power BI and Tableau
- SQL
Commendations
- AI hackathon winner · Pickyourtrail · 2026
- Hyrox winner · GLIM C · June 2026
- Hustler of the quarter · Pickyourtrail · Oct 2021
- 01
Listen first
Years of advising customers taught me that every request hides a real problem. I start by understanding the person behind it.
- 02
Diagnose with structure
Ambiguity gets broken into parts, tested and ranked, so teams argue about evidence rather than opinions.
- 03
Prove it in data
A fix is only a fix when the numbers move. Dashboards, reviews and adoption show what to keep and what to retire.
Off duty
Beyond work
Football
Played professionally in the Chennai Divisional Leagues.
Outer space
Orbits, rockets and the long way home. The reason this site has a sky behind it.
Ancient Tamil civilisation
Time-travelling in my head to the age of the Tamil kings, to see how they lived and ruled.
Fitness
Running, lifting and just moving.
FAQ
Questions, answered
Who is Sathya J?
Sathya is an MBA (PGPM) candidate at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai (Class of 2027), majoring in Product Management and Marketing. Before the MBA, Sathya spent three-plus years at Pickyourtrail, moving from customer-facing sales into product.
What kind of roles is Sathya looking for?
Product and consulting roles, ideally ones that mean solving different problems across different industries. Use the Hire page or the contact form to start a conversation.
What results has Sathya delivered in product?
Highlights include cutting 6,200 hours a year of manual coordination across a 40-member team, tripling margin retained per cancelled booking, and growing internal tool adoption from 10% to 85% across 60 users.
What tools and skills does Sathya bring?
Structured problem solving, business analysis and process re-engineering, backed by Power BI, Tableau and SQL. Sathya also goes deep on AI, building agents, RAG systems and multi-agent workflows with CrewAI.
What is Thunai?
Thunai is a gamified habit-tracking web app that Sathya built and shipped independently. It is live with real users.
Is this website also a marketing lab?
Yes. Alongside the portfolio, this site is a live sandbox for Google Tag Manager, GA4, Search Console, Google Ads, SEMrush, SpyFu, AnswerThePublic and Lighthouse. The log entries document what gets tested.
How can I contact Sathya?
Use the contact form or email sathyajayaram31@gmail.com.
Contact
Hiring for product or consulting?
If you have a role in mind, or a problem worth solving, send a message and Sathya will reply by email.