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Hi, I'm

Megha

I started my career in tech sales, wanting QBR data that none of the engineers had time to pull. So I taught myself to code, and I've built things myself ever since. Now I operate and advise across product, engineering, and growth.

Most recently I co-founded Whimsy, backed by Afore Capital, where we brought email and voice agents to 500+ event businesses and $30M+ in weddings booked. Before that, I was a product manager at eCommerce marketplaces Curated (acq. by Flip) and Wish.

Booking new engagements starting September 2026 — reach out to discuss fit.

Someone who has been building in the AI trenches

I was building agents before harnesses or MCPs existed, or the term “agents” became commonplace. Whimsy saw the vision of AI-enabled services and vertical specialization back in 2023.

A Swiss Army knife of a product manager, engineer, and salesperson

I have been the PM, the engineer, and the person on the sales call. At Whimsy I prototyped live with customers while they described what they wanted, then shipped it.

Domain expertise and the fundamentals of product

I specialize in merchant-facing products, having worked on on product catalogs, onboarding, internal operations, and pricing features at Curated and Wish.

I work with early-stage founders, growth-stage product teams, consumer brands, and investors who want hands-on operator support, not just a deck. Engagements are typically project-based or fractional, scoped over 4–12 weeks.

Engineering and product

Full-stack 0→1 builds, and refactoring AI-generated prototypes into production code. Cuts deployment time by 30%.

Fractional product leadership

Acting Head of Product or PM-in-residence for teams without a senior product hire yet. Roadmap, prioritization, hiring, and shipping.

Founder and PM advisory

Ongoing advisory for founders and senior PMs on product strategy, AI integration, fundraising narrative, and team design.

Workshops and technical enablement

Curriculum and live facilitation for teams learning to build with AI tooling: Claude Code, Codex, terminal, GitHub, and deployment.

EMAIL AGENTS VOICE AI TOOL CALLING B2B SAAS

Whimsy

Co-founder, Jun 2023 – Oct 2025

Event planners were running six-figure weddings out of an inbox, so we built an email analysis agent + customer support voice agent. Scaled to 500+ businesses and $30M+ in weddings booked.

  1. Current

    Digital Culturist

    Founding engineer

    A research tool that captures what you read and expands on it with LLMs. Building it end to end, from the extension to the model layer.

    FULL-STACKLLM TOOLING0→1
  2. Current

    Healthcare RCM company

    AI deployment lead · client under NDA

    Denial and pre-authorization analytics for hospital systems, with the pseudonymization and verification layers that make the numbers trustworthy.

    AI DEPLOYMENTHEALTHCAREPHIEVALS
  3. 2026

    Build First

    Engineering and workshop facilitation

    Built FacilitatorOS, an agentic pipeline that dynamically generates AI-learning workshop content.

    AGENTIC WORKFLOWSEDUCATION
  4. 2026

    Stealth fashion tech startup (YC)

    Product and engineering · client under NDA

    A computer vision and LLM-enabled detail tagging system for garments.

    COMPUTER VISIONFASHION
  5. 2026

    Fortune 100 eCommerce marketplace

    AI deployment · client under NDA

    A technology and product audit identifying integration gaps, data quality issues, and where AI was worth adopting.

    AI DEPLOYMENTMARKETPLACE
  1. May 2026

    The Messy Middle of Vibe Coding

    The prototype layer is a commodity. Nobody has solved what happens between “this works on my machine for one user” and “this serves 1,000 paying customers.”

    ESSAYAI INFRASTRUCTURE
  2. 2026

    Localhost to Live

    Onboards builders without a traditional engineering background to Claude Code in the terminal, GitHub, and deployment. Delivered with Build First.

    CURRICULUMCLAUDE CODE
  3. 2026

    Shipping Your Weekend Side Project

    Workshop at Claude Cowork for AI Snack Club, a women in tech community with 1,000+ members. 345 attendees. Curriculum and demos of how to work with AI for personal workflows.

    WORKSHOPSPEAKING
  4. Sep 2025

    AI Is Useful, Actually

    I rebuilt my floral business website in under 10 hours with Claude Code, work that would have cost $2,000 to $5,000 to contract out.

    ESSAYCLAUDE CODE
  5. Sep 2025

    Making Online Shopping Fun Again

    Trying to shop while resisting the algorithmic hellscape.

    ESSAYCOMMERCE
  6. Jun 2025

    Free Range Apps

    What if software creation became cheap enough that serving audiences of dozens, rather than thousands, became economically viable? A vision for the micro-app renaissance.

    ESSAYPLATFORMS

If this maps to something you’re working on, I’d like to hear about it.