Kumaresh Pandian
Founding Team @ Budy.bot | AI-Native GTM Workflows | Building Sales & Marketing Agents for Vertical Businesses
I build AI-powered operational systems that help teams execute My current focus is designing and deploying AI agents that augment sales, customer success, and revenue operations teams.
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Rather than simply automating tasks, I am interested in how AI can replicate the decision-making patterns of high-performing operators and help organizations scale I work at the intersection of:• AI Agents & Agentic Workflows• Revenue Operations• Customer Success• Business Process Automation• Program Management• Startup OperationsOver the course of my career, I've partnered with founders, product teams, sales leaders, and customer-facing teams to solve complex operational challenges, improve visibility, and create systems that Today, I'm particularly interested in questions such as:• How can AI agents identify opportunities • How can we codify the behaviors of top-performing sales • How can autonomous systems improve execution without sacrificing human • How do startups scale operations without scaling Outside of work, I enjoy studying startups, AI, systems thinking, and building businesses from the ground up.
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- BUDYJOB
- Founding GTM5M
Founding GTM
Budy
Part of the early founding team at Budy.bot, building AI-native workflows and agentic automation for customer-facing teams. I work across customer discovery, workflow design, AI agent implementation, RevOps automation, and product feedback loops. My focus is converting messy real-world sales and marketing processes into reliable AI-assisted workflows that help teams act faster, follow up better, and improve conversion. Current areas of work include: • Designing agentic workflows for sales and marketing use cases • Translating customer processes into AI-ready workflow specifications • Building automations across CRM, email, tasks, and customer engagement signals • Defining guardrails, fail…
- LAKHAIM BEAUTYJOB
- Dir1Y 9M
Director
Lakhaim Beauty
• Drove brand transformation and strategic marketing execution for Lakhaim Beauty, enhancing market positioning. • Refined brand identity through insight-driven storytelling, elevating customer perception and engagement. • Strengthened product direction by leveraging market analysis and audience insights to align with emerging trends.
- SPENDFLOJOB
- Dir of Revenue Operations1Y 3M
Director of Revenue Operations
Spendflo
• Led revenue operations for Spendflo, a high-growth SaaS company, focusing on GTM optimization and sales enablement. • Redesigned GTM systems and sales workflows to enhance pipeline quality and outbound targeting. • Migrated the GTM stack from Pipedrive to Salesforce, integrating HubSpot and Outreach for improved forecasting. • Implemented lead scoring models that significantly reduced time-to-first-touch and boosted lead engagement.
- AMAZONJOB
- Mgr, Program Management8M
Manager, Program Management
Amazon
• Directed large-scale automation initiatives to enhance pricing intelligence capabilities across Amazon's global marketplaces. • Streamlined operational processes to improve accuracy and cross-functional coordination. • Fostered collaboration between engineering, operations, and analytics teams to boost automated price-matching accuracy.
- CLEVERTAPJOB
- Dir2Y 3M
Director
CleverTap
• Led strategic initiatives and funding support, driving operational excellence and investor engagement. • Collaborated with the CEO and CRO on company-wide initiatives, including fundraising and GTM expansion. • Built and scaled sales operations and SDR teams to support US market expansion. • Implemented OKR frameworks, enhancing execution visibility and accountability across leadership teams.
- MICROSOFTJOB
- Product Mgr3Y 6M
Product Manager
Microsoft
• Led the AI-driven product strategy and design for self-service applications across Xbox and Windows. • Enhanced user engagement through informed workflow redesigns based on usability studies. • Delivered experimentation tools that improved feature adoption and facilitated controlled online testing.
- DEUTSCHE BANKJOB
- Associate2Y 6M
Associate
Deutsche Bank
• Delivered global derivatives reporting platforms, enhancing operational efficiency across multiple regions. • Drove cross-country technology projects while mentoring interns to improve team dynamics and project outcomes. • Successfully expanded the derivatives reporting platform to a Japanese clearing house, completing the project ahead of schedule.
- A.T. KEARNEYJOB
- Business Technology Consul…4M
Business Technology Consultant - Meredith Corporation
A.T. Kearney
Created an advertising roadmap for Meredith Corporation, as a part of Carnegie Mellon – A.T Kearney Student Lab
- DELOITTEJOB
- Summer Associate2M
Summer Associate
Deloitte
Assisted the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to close non-performing banks during the financial crisis in 2008.
- WIPROJOB
- Sales Eng10M
Sales Engineer
Wipro
Sold Cisco’s networking equipment and services to clients in Bengaluru and Chennai
- Job: A.T. Kearney — Business Technology Consultant - Meredith Corporation · 2010-08 – 2010-12 · 4 mo — Created an advertising roadmap for Meredith Corporation, as a part of Carnegie Mellon – A.T Kearney Student Lab
- Job: Wipro — Sales Engineer · 2008-05 – 2009-03 · 10 mo — Sold Cisco’s networking equipment and services to clients in Bengaluru and Chennai
- Job: Deutsche Bank — Associate · 2011-03 – 2013-09 · 2y 6mo — • Delivered global derivatives reporting platforms, enhancing operational efficiency across multiple regions. • Drove cross-country technology projects while mentoring interns to improve team dynamics and project outcomes. • Successfully expanded the derivatives reporting platform to a Japanese clearing house, completing the project ahead of schedule.
- Job: Lakhaim Beauty — Director · 2024-07 – 2026-04 · 1y 9mo — • Drove brand transformation and strategic marketing execution for Lakhaim Beauty, enhancing market positioning. • Refined brand identity through insight-driven storytelling, elevating customer perception and engagement. • Strengthened product direction by leveraging market analysis and audience insights to align with emerging trends.
- Job: CleverTap — Director · 2018-10 – 2021-01 · 2y 3mo — • Led strategic initiatives and funding support, driving operational excellence and investor engagement. • Collaborated with the CEO and CRO on company-wide initiatives, including fundraising and GTM expansion. • Built and scaled sales operations and SDR teams to support US market expansion. • Implemented OKR frameworks, enhancing execution visibility and accountability across leadership teams.
- Job: Budy — Founding GTM (Founding GTM) · 2026-05 – present · 3 mo — Part of the early founding team at Budy.bot, building AI-native workflows and agentic automation for customer-facing teams. I work across customer discovery, workflow design, AI agent implementation, RevOps automation, and product feedback loops. My focus is converting messy real-world sales and marketing processes into reliable AI-assisted workflows that help teams act faster, follow up better, and improve conversion. Current areas of work include: • Designing agentic workflows for sales and marketing use cases • Translating customer processes into AI-ready workflow specifications • Building automations across CRM, email, tasks, and customer engagement signals • Defining guardrails, fail…
- Job: Spendflo — Director of Revenue Operations (RevOps) · 2023-04 – 2024-07 · 1y 3mo — • Led revenue operations for Spendflo, a high-growth SaaS company, focusing on GTM optimization and sales enablement. • Redesigned GTM systems and sales workflows to enhance pipeline quality and outbound targeting. • Migrated the GTM stack from Pipedrive to Salesforce, integrating HubSpot and Outreach for improved forecasting. • Implemented lead scoring models that significantly reduced time-to-first-touch and boosted lead engagement.
- Job: Amazon — Manager, Program Management · 2022-07 – 2023-03 · 8 mo — • Directed large-scale automation initiatives to enhance pricing intelligence capabilities across Amazon's global marketplaces. • Streamlined operational processes to improve accuracy and cross-functional coordination. • Fostered collaboration between engineering, operations, and analytics teams to boost automated price-matching accuracy.
- Job: Microsoft — Product Manager · 2013-09 – 2017-03 · 3y 6mo — • Led the AI-driven product strategy and design for self-service applications across Xbox and Windows. • Enhanced user engagement through informed workflow redesigns based on usability studies. • Delivered experimentation tools that improved feature adoption and facilitated controlled online testing.
- Job: Deloitte — Summer Associate · 2010-06 – 2010-08 · 2 mo — Assisted the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to close non-performing banks during the financial crisis in 2008.
- School: Indian School of Business — Master of Business Administration - MBA
- School: Carnegie Mellon — Masters, Information Systems Management
- School: Birla Institute of Technology and Science — Bachelor's degree, Information Systems
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