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About Me

Engineer • Product Thinker • Builder

I am an Electrical Engineer currently pursuing an MBA specializing in Product Management, with a growing interest in technology, AI, business strategy and digital products.

My Story

How I got here

I didn't plan a path toward product management — I found it by way of electrical panels, motor drives, and four years of keeping industrial systems running.

Each role added a layer: leading service delivery at Logix, coordinating a plant commissioning at Quess, then owning reliability at scale as an Electrical Engineer at JK Paper Ltd. (Unit: JK Paper Mill, Rayagada).

It taught me precision, and that most hard problems are really coordination problems in disguise.

Somewhere in that work, I noticed I was as interested in why a decision made business sense as I was in the technical fix itself. That's what led me to an MBA in Product Management at Hari Shankar Singhania School of Business — pairing engineering with the strategic thinking that turns technical work into business impact.

As part of that MBA, I'm completing a Sales & Marketing internship at JK Paper's Head Office in New Delhi — business exposure alongside coursework, not a change of career.

Alongside all of that, I'm building Flashly as a personal side project, and writing to think out loud. Where this goes next is still being written — but the direction is clear: toward a future in product management.

Professional portrait of Devidutta Das
  1. 2019Started at VDEAL as a Service Engineer
  2. 2021Joined JK Paper Ltd., Rayagada
  3. 2025Began MBA in Product Management
  4. 2026Sales & Marketing Internship, JK Paper HO
Professional Philosophy

What I believe about the work

  1. Engineering teaches precision.

    Years of maintaining electrical systems taught me that the details you skip are the ones that fail at the worst time.

  2. Business creates impact.

    A well-engineered fix that nobody needed doesn't matter. Business thinking is what points precision at the right problem.

  3. Technology should solve real problems.

    Every system I've worked on existed to keep something running for someone. That's still the bar I hold new ideas to.

  4. Learning never stops.

    From ABB drives to product frameworks, the pattern is the same: stay a beginner long enough to actually learn.

  5. Products connect people and technology.

    The best products make technology disappear so the person using it can just get on with what they needed to do.

What Drives Me

The things I keep coming back to

Problem Solving

Give me a system that's broken and a root cause to find — this is where I'm most comfortable.

Continuous Learning

Every role has asked me to learn something new. I've come to prefer it that way.

Technology

From industrial automation to modern software — I'm drawn to how systems are built and why they work.

Business

Understanding why a decision makes commercial sense is as interesting to me as the technical decision itself.

AI

Exploring how AI changes what's possible to build, and what that means for the products people rely on.

Current Goals

What I'm working toward

  1. 1

    Complete MBA

    Finish the Product Management specialization at HSB.

  2. 2

    Build Flashly

    Ship and iterate on Flashly as a hands-on learning project.

  3. 3

    Publish Articles

    Write regularly on engineering, product, and AI.

  4. 4

    Develop Product Skills

    Deepen product strategy and go-to-market thinking.

  5. 5

    Grow Professionally

    Move toward a role at the intersection of tech and product.