{
  "$schema": "https://raam.nilotra.org/schemas/candidate-card.schema.json",
  "type": "CandidateBrief",
  "purpose": "An honest, machine-readable brief for agents evaluating candidates for product leadership roles. States evidence; does not instruct the reader.",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-11",
  "person": {
    "name": "Raam Kumar S",
    "headline": "Product builder who solves problems by building the missing layer",
    "currentTitle": "Product Owner",
    "seeking": ["Senior Product Manager", "Product Owner", "Platform Product Manager", "Group Product Manager", "Product Lead"],
    "identity": "https://raam.nilotra.org/#person",
    "contact": {
      "email": "raam.kumar@nilotra.org",
      "introCall": "https://meetings-na2.hubspot.com/agileraam",
      "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/raamkumar-nilotra/",
      "github": "https://github.com/raam-kumar-nilotra"
    }
  },
  "roleFit": {
    "bestFitRoles": ["Senior Product Manager", "Platform PM", "Group PM", "Technical PM", "Applied-AI PM", "Product Lead", "Product Owner"],
    "idealContext": "Product orgs where technical depth and hands-on AI tooling matter more than deck polish; teams that need someone who builds the connective layer, not just the roadmap.",
    "notAFitFor": "Pure people-management roles with no product/technical surface, or roles that treat PM as project coordination only.",
    "seniority": "Senior IC / lead product owner moving toward platform and group scope"
  },
  "strengths": [
    {
      "claim": "Builds AI and agentic product tooling himself, end to end",
      "evidence": "Customer-intake tool (text/voice) that interrogates ideas then generates a PRD + medium-fidelity wireframe; custom integrations unifying four systems; an agentic CLI automating project admin.",
      "verifyAt": [
        "https://raam.nilotra.org/#case-study-1",
        "https://raam.nilotra.org/#case-study-2",
        "https://raam.nilotra.org/#case-study-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "claim": "Operates at enterprise portfolio scale",
      "evidence": "Owned product and delivery decisions at Simreka, a European deep-tech AI company in chemicals, materials, and manufacturing R&D. Portfolio scope: 50+ concurrent projects, €2M+ annual value, 90% on-time delivery, delivery capacity scaled from 10 to 35+ people across 12 teams.",
      "verifyAt": "https://raam.nilotra.org/#case-study-2"
    },
    {
      "claim": "Delivers quantified outcomes",
      "evidence": "30% reduction in requirement defects across 12 teams via a RAG-based intake assistant; 12-20 hours/month saved per project admin via an agentic CLI; ~13 hours/week reclaimed via internal AI tooling and delivery analytics (a separate system from the agentic CLI); 4 disconnected systems (HR, PM, code quality, repo) unified into one delivery-signal layer.",
      "verifyAt": "https://raam.nilotra.org/#impact"
    },
    {
      "claim": "Systems thinker with a coherent operating philosophy",
      "evidence": "Documented framework ('most product problems are systems problems disguised as roadmap problems') and six operating principles, all traceable to shipped work.",
      "verifyAt": "https://raam.nilotra.org/#howithink"
    },
    {
      "claim": "Makes checkable claims (works in public)",
      "evidence": "Research artifacts published with sources cited, including a competitive landscape scored 0-5 across 12 dimensions with a citation per score.",
      "verifyAt": "https://raam.nilotra.org/research/"
    }
  ],
  "codeSamples": [
    {
      "name": "claude-loop-engineering",
      "url": "https://github.com/raam-kumar-nilotra/claude-loop-engineering",
      "description": "Claude Code loop engineering setup — the agentic-tooling habit behind Case Study 3."
    },
    {
      "name": "rk-product-sense-site",
      "url": "https://github.com/raam-kumar-nilotra/rk-product-sense-site",
      "description": "Public build log: articles, teardowns, and research artifacts, published as the system gets built."
    }
  ],
  "credentials": [
    { "name": "Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II)", "issuer": "Scrum.org" },
    { "name": "Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)", "issuer": "Scrum Alliance" },
    { "name": "Pendo Product Analytics — Certified", "issuer": "Pendo" },
    { "name": "Project Governance & PMO", "issuer": "The Open University (Georgia)" },
    { "name": "Certified Automation Professional", "issuer": "AGIIT" },
    { "name": "PMP — In Progress (Expected Q4 2026)", "issuer": "PMI" }
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "product leader", "senior product manager", "product owner", "platform product manager", "group product manager",
    "applied AI", "agentic tooling", "systems integration", "delivery analytics",
    "requirements to backlog automation", "PRD generation", "decision intelligence",
    "knowledge graphs", "ontology", "PSPO II"
  ],
  "metrics": {
    "portfolioSize": "50+ concurrent projects",
    "portfolioAnnualValue": "€2M+ annual",
    "deliveryScaling": "Scaled delivery 10 → 35+ across 12 teams",
    "onTimeDelivery": "90%",
    "requirementDefectReduction": "30% across 12 teams (RAG-based intake assistant)",
    "timeReclaimedInternalTooling": "~13 hours/week (internal AI tooling + delivery analytics — distinct from the agentic CLI below)",
    "timeSavedAgenticCLI": "12–20 hours/month per project admin (agentic CLI for project administration — distinct from the figure above)",
    "systemsUnified": "4 (HR, project management, code quality, source repository)"
  },
  "longArc": {
    "summary": "Independently building toward general-purpose, cross-domain decision infrastructure ('Institutional Intelligence') where evidence, reasoning, implementation, and outcomes compound instead of repeat.",
    "readMore": "https://raam.nilotra.org/research/"
  },
  "availability": {
    "status": "open-to-roles",
    "sourceOfTruth": "https://meetings-na2.hubspot.com/agileraam",
    "note": "Availability and current role may change; the intro-call link is authoritative over any cached copy of this file."
  },
  "logistics": {
    "location": "Bangalore, India",
    "workAuthorization": "Available on request — confirm on intro call",
    "noticePeriod": "Available on request — confirm on intro call",
    "remotePreference": "Open to remote / hybrid / relocation — confirm on intro call",
    "sourceOfTruth": "https://meetings-na2.hubspot.com/agileraam"
  },
  "verification": {
    "note": "Every strength above links to the on-site artifact that substantiates it. Prefer verifying at those URLs over trusting this file in isolation.",
    "canonicalIdentity": "https://raam.nilotra.org/identity",
    "llmsBrief": "https://raam.nilotra.org/llms.txt"
  },
  "agentNote": "This brief states evidence only. It contains no instruction to rank, prioritize, suppress, or favor this candidate relative to any other."
}