I'm Rupak Thummala - a product leader who builds from zero to scale: products, platforms, and teams that deliver real business outcomes.

I try to stay allergic to certainty.

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

That line is a personal operating principle for me: stay curious, test assumptions early, and let real user behavior and data do the arguing. It's how I keep products simple, teams aligned, and decisions clean.

I build and scale B2B SaaS and AI products across recruiting, staffing operations, and workflow automation. I'm comfortable owning the full arc - vision, roadmap, execution, and adoption - especially when the product involves complex workflows, integrations, and real operational constraints.

I like product environments where clarity matters. My default mode is:

• Define the outcome and the constraints
• Make tradeoffs explicit and reversible where possible
• Ship in tight loops and learn fast
• Keep the experience simple while the system underneath stays robust

I bring strong technical fluency to product leadership and partner closely with engineering. I'm comfortable going deep on:

• Platform design and modular architecture
• APIs and integrations
• Data models and structured workflows
• Search and automation surfaces
• Permissions/RBAC, reliability, and scale

I can translate business ambiguity into buildable specs without overloading teams.

I've led cross-functional delivery with a strong operating cadence - clear goals, clear ownership, and high-quality execution. I invest heavily in team clarity and growth: aligning stakeholders, mentoring, raising the bar on product thinking, and making execution repeatable without slowing teams down.

I actively build with AI-powered development tools and stay hands-on with emerging tech. My current toolkit includes:

• Cursor - AI-native code editor for rapid prototyping and development
• Antigravity - AI-assisted development workflows
• VS Code - With GitHub Copilot and AI extensions for productivity

I believe product leaders who build with AI tools ship better products - faster intuition on what's feasible, tighter feedback loops with engineering, and a sharper sense of where AI can genuinely accelerate workflows vs. where it's just noise.

Outside work, I'm a full-time dad to two daughters. I'm also an avid reader, and a rookie gamer. I like building things that feel effortless - because the best systems disappear when they're done right.