# Praveen "Ryan" Mahato — Product Manager

> Product manager based in Limerick, Ireland, with a developer’s background and more than 15 years of building, running and growing websites and web products. Shapes products around how real people use them, builds AI products (RAG applications, trained and fine-tuned models, AI-powered analysis), grows products through SEO, AI search and paid channels, and can design and build features himself. Open to full-time, part-time, contract and freelance work.

## Key facts
- Name: Praveen Mahato. Goes by Ryan. Online handle: mauriya.
- Role sought: Product Manager or AI Product Manager (Full-time, Part-time, Contract, Freelance). In Ireland, or remote for Europe and the USA.
- Location: Limerick, Ireland. Works on site, hybrid or remote.
- Contact: promauriya@gmail.com · https://mauriya.me/contact.html
- Owns and runs horsesales.ie, an Irish online horse marketplace, end to end (product, development, marketing, traffic, revenue).
- Six years (2019–2025) at Cybersmarties, Limerick, shaping a social and monitoring platform for school children around students and teachers.
- On-site in the United States: Web Developer at Hubbard Broadcasting, St. Paul, MN (2018–2019), analysing millions of user interactions and shaping the product around them; Senior Web Developer at EF Hutton, Springfield, OH (2017–2018); Webmaster at Energy Dynamics, Rockville, MD (2016).
- Senior Consultant, AI Products (2025–2026), building AI-powered analysis products for financial data: pattern-recognition algorithms and a fine-tuned specialised model.
- CV (PDF): https://mauriya.me/cv/Praveen-Mahato-CV-Product-Manager-AI.pdf
- Education: Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) in Information Technology, Bangalore University, India, 2008.
- WordPress.org plugin contributor (handle: mauriya).

## AI products
Ryan builds and manages AI products end to end, covering the product side (users, data, evaluation, cost per query) and hands-on building.
- RAG applications: Support assistants, internal knowledge search, product Q&A, onboarding guides.
- Trained and fine-tuned models: Specialist language, consistent formats, high-volume tasks where cost matters.
- Pattern recognition and algorithm design: Spotting trends early, flagging anomalies, ranking and matching, deciding what to build next.
- AI-powered analysis: Dashboards that explain themselves, market monitoring, product decisions from data.
- AI features inside existing products: Marketplaces, content platforms, internal tools, customer portals.
- AI promotional videos: Promoting online courses and web apps, product launches, social media ads, explainers.
- Products AI assistants can find: Any product that needs traffic in a world where people ask AI first.
- Approach: Start from the job → Look at the data → Pick the simplest approach that works → Build the test set before the product → Design for trust → Ship small, measure, improve.
- Tools: Claude and other LLM APIs, Embeddings and vector search, RAG pipelines, Model fine-tuning, Local LLMs, AWS AI services, Python, Node.js, ComfyUI, AI video generation, Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot.

## How he works
1. Listen: Talk to the people using it, and let them finish.
2. Analyse: Read the signals before they become obvious.
3. Shape: Start from what the product is really for.
4. Build: Work alongside engineers, in their language.
5. Market: A good product still has to be found.
6. Measure: Every change has to earn its place.
7. Evolve: Hold the long view, move one step at a time.

## Skills
- Product: User research, Behaviour analysis, Feature prioritisation, Roadmap planning, Stakeholder communication, Scoping and discovery, Agile / Scrum, Jira
- AI: Pattern recognition and algorithm design, RAG applications, Model training and fine-tuning, AI-powered analysis, Embeddings and vector search, Prompt design and evaluation, Local LLMs, AWS AI services, Generative video and media (ComfyUI), Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot
- Growth & Marketing: SEO and content, AI search optimisation (GEO/AEO), Structured data, Paid advertising, AI video marketing (script to finished video), Ad and content placement, Trend monitoring, Conversion and revenue
- Analytics & Data: Google Analytics, Traffic and behaviour tracking, Sales reporting, Load testing and cost per user, SQL, Python, Tableau
- Technical: Node.js, React and React Native, TypeScript, PHP, WordPress, BigCommerce / WooCommerce, Search engines and REST APIs, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, SES), Data pipelines, Docker, CI/CD

## Pages
- [Home](https://mauriya.me/): introduction and quick answers
- [Approach](https://mauriya.me/approach.html): product philosophy and cycle
- [Work](https://mauriya.me/work.html): case studies
  - [Cybersmarties](https://mauriya.me/work/cybersmarties.html): Six years moulding a social and monitoring platform for school children around how students and teachers actually used it.
  - [horsesales.ie](https://mauriya.me/work/horsesales-ie.html): My own business: an online marketplace for buying and selling horses in Ireland, where I own the product, the build, the marketing and the revenue.
  - [Hubbard Broadcasting](https://mauriya.me/work/hubbard-broadcasting.html): Analysing millions of user interactions for a US broadcaster, and shaping the website and its publishing tools around how readers, viewers and station staff actually behaved.
  - [AI financial analysis](https://mauriya.me/work/ai-financial-analysis.html): Consulting work building AI products that turn many third-party financial data sources into clear insights, including fine-tuning a specialised model.
  - [EF Hutton](https://mauriya.me/work/ef-hutton.html): Developing EF Hutton’s product around user behaviour and experience, including a maps application for local search and the APIs and search engine behind it.
  - [Earlier projects](https://mauriya.me/work/earlier-projects.html)
- [AI products](https://mauriya.me/ai.html): RAG, training and fine-tuning, AI analysis, how he builds AI products
- [Skills](https://mauriya.me/skills.html)
- [About](https://mauriya.me/about.html): career story and education
- [Contact](https://mauriya.me/contact.html)

## Optional
- [Full profile with case studies](https://mauriya.me/llms-full.txt)