Toronto & Remote · M.Eng, Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ McMaster

Technical Product Manager
& AI-Native Builder

Building AI/ML automation tools across healthcare and fintech — from architecture through deployment, leading engineering teams of up to 4. Startup-built from day one, now completing an M.Eng in Entrepreneurship & Innovation at McMaster.

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K+ patient records integrated
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% manual processes cut
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+ yrs in product & engineering
Puja Patel
5+ products shipped
4 teams led
Experience

Where I've built and shipped

Full-cycle product rebuilds and ML deployments across healthcare, QA automation, and fintech.

Oct 2024 – Present Tekrata · Brooklyn, NY / Remote

Technical Product Manager

Working with PHI at scale — designing internal and external REST APIs for FHIR-based healthcare data integrations and claims automation across 800K+ patient records.

Jan 2026 – Present Qadra (Tekrata) · Remote

Lead Engineer & Product Manager

Took Qadra from an unused V1 to a commercialized V2 — rebuilt the architecture, shipped payments, and led an engineering team of 4 through launch.

May 2024 – Jan 2026 Cashly Inc. · Oakville, ON

Product Manager & Lead Engineer

Shipped multiple products on an AI-enabled fintech platform — designed internal/external APIs (Twilio, Zapier, Google) and pitched investors as a startup founder.

May 2022 – Aug 2023 SOTI · Mississauga, ON

Product Owner Intern

Partnered with security and engineering teams to triage and reduce a large vulnerability backlog.

Selected Projects

What I'm building right now

2026 – Present

PetnerUp

Product Strategy & Flutter Development

Problem: lost-and-found pet identification is fragmented and manual. Building a community-funded identification platform to fix it — now commercializing from a McMaster capstone project into a fundable venture, with 30 active users, a dataset of several thousand images, and a go-to-market plan targeting 1,000 users in 3 months.

2026 – Present

SymptomPrep

Healthcare Communication Tool

Problem: immigrants and older adults often struggle to communicate symptoms clearly to clinicians due to language and health-literacy gaps. Designing a multilingual symptom-prep tool that captures patient concerns, transcribes them, and generates clinician-friendly medical summaries.

Live Projects

Try it yourself

Cloud-native SaaS platforms I've shipped for past employers — click in and try them live.

QA Automation Live

Qadra

AI-powered QA test automation platform — rebuilt V1→V2 architecture, deployed on AWS ECS.

Launch app
Fintech CRM Live

Cashly

AI-enabled CRM and workflow platform for mortgage agents — self-serve onboarding and deal automation.

Launch app
Skills

Technical & product toolkit

AI-native by default — I use tools like Claude and AI coding assistants to move from idea to shipped product fast, without treating AI as a black box.

ReactNode.js PythonPostgreSQL AWSSQL GitAI JiraFigma

Technical

ReactNext.jsNode.jsExpressPrisma PythonSQLPostgreSQLDocker AWS ECSAWS ALBAWS EC2AWS BedrockAWS S3 CI/CDSystem ArchitectureREST APIsAPI DesignAI/LLM Integrations Claude CodeOCRFlutter/Dart

Product & Process

AgileJiraBitbucketSprint Planning Stakeholder ManagementCross-functional Team Leadership Product DeliveryRoadmapping
Education

Background

McMaster University
McMaster University
Expected Dec 2026
  • Community Project Technical Lead — PetnerUp, now commercializing from capstone project to fundable venture
  • Coursework and venture work at the intersection of technology, product strategy, and business
Western University
Western University
June 2024 · GPA 3.2
  • Hyperloop — VP Communications

Let's build something.

Open to technical PM, product engineering, and consulting opportunities in Toronto and remote.