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Keshika Annadurai

I build for people, not features. I listen first, and I keep going until the product is something they love.

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“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Move through my work

Every space is a project. Open its title deed for the story, then dig into the slides, the PRD or the prototype.

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How I work

Four habits I fall back on when things get messy. Tap a card to see how it plays out.

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Experience

  1. 2026 - now

    AI Engineer (Product)

    AdFury.ai

    Build AI features with a product lens: start from where users get stuck, find the cause, ship the fix. Traced low engagement to prompt fidelity and drove a model retrain, and traced failed downloads to wide images and shipped a fix.

  2. 2025 - 2026

    Product Manager & COO

    FoodBurp

    Co-led product for a two-sided food-sharing marketplace: discovery, MVP scope, launch and OKRs. Grew to 200+ users and 3x daily active users.

  3. 2025 - 2026

    Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Purdue University

    Taught system design, databases, SQL and security to 150+ undergraduates a semester, making technical ideas clear for people new to them.

  4. 2025

    Graduate AI Researcher

    The Data Mine, Purdue University

    Owned a voice-clone pipeline for the Practical AI podcast end to end, from 320 hours of raw audio to a fine-tuned XTTS model served to the app.

  5. 2025

    AI Product Intern

    AIDS Healthcare Foundation

    Shipped an AI IT-support chatbot on Microsoft Teams that cut manual queries 60% and resolved requests 2x faster, and led a client-retention project with live dashboards.

  6. 2025

    Graduate Research Assistant

    Purdue University

    Tested whether LLMs can match human researchers at coding ~300 student reflections, and built a RAG pipeline that kept people in the loop to validate results.

  7. 2023 - 2024

    Software Engineer

    Cognizant Technology Solutions

    Worked with product and engineering teams to improve models in production, lifting user engagement 18%, and shipped inference pipelines that cut latency 15%.

  8. 2022

    Software Engineering Intern

    Cognizant Technology Solutions

    Built a full-stack tender management web app and refined its UI from user feedback and testing, working across teams on integration.

Education

  1. 2026

    MS, Computer and Information Technology, Purdue University

  2. 2022

    BE, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering

Your move.

Building something people should love, or stuck on a problem worth solving? I’d love to hear about it.