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Abhijit
Sarkar, PhD

Senior Product Manager · Devices (Hardware / Software)

I’m a Senior Product Manager with 14+ years of development engineering experience in consumer hardware and display technology. My career spans the full arc — from employee #1 at a startup, where I drove investor due diligence and closed a $1.2M Series A, to a decade at Microsoft, where I conceived and led the productization of 4 visual experience features for Surface, shipped to millions and recognised by press and reviewers. Most recently as a Senior PM, I owned a global B2B partnership program — launching a tiered pricing strategy and partner tooling that targeted 4× revenue growth and delivered 94% test-efficiency gains.

I have a deep academic background: two master’s degrees and a PhD in lighting and color science, earned across the US and France — reflected in 11 patents and 17 publications. I’m now pairing that technical foundation with business strategy acumen, completing my MBA at UW Foster School of Business (June ’26). And increasingly, I’m channeling all of it into building AI-powered product experiences.

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Abhijit Sarkar
14+
Years in Consumer Hardware
4
Degrees — 2 MS · PhD · MBA
11
Patents
17
Publications
Product Portfolio

Projects & Builds

Applied work at the intersection of AI, product strategy, and emerging technology — built to demonstrate real-world PM craft.

Featured Project
Strategic Tax Advisor
An AI-powered tax strategy agent for high-net-worth clients
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POC for generating personalized tax-saving advice for High-Net-Worth (HNW) clients. The agent ingests a client’s tax returns, cross-references them against the CPA firm’s proprietary Tax Strategy Playbook via RAG, and surfaces tailored recommendations — curated strategies specific to the firm, not generic LLM outputs. Built end-to-end: market opportunity analysis, customer discovery, and a functional AI prototype.


ORIGINATED FROM UW FOSTER MBA CONSULTING ENGAGEMENT

Tech Stack
n8n Pinecone RAG OpenAI Embeddings Google Drive OAuth2 ChatGPT Claude (Sonnet)
Methodologies
Market Sizing Customer Discovery POC Prototyping RAG Architecture Design Value Proposition Design
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Next project in development — stay tuned
Capabilities

Expertise

Deep domain knowledge built across consumer hardware, AR/XR, and display technology — with aspirations to transition into product leadership at scale.

01
Product Strategy & Roadmaps
End-to-end ownership from requirements and PRDs through launch — balancing user experience, hardware constraints, and platform scalability.
PRDsUser StoriesPrioritizationOKRs
02
Consumer Devices & XR Displays
Shipped visual experience features for Microsoft Surface used by millions. Led display calibration strategy for Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2 smart glasses.
AR/XRDisplay CalibrationHoloLensSurface
03
Cross-functional Execution
Proven collaboration across HW, OS, SW, UX, and manufacturing. Led global B2B partnership programs with tiered pricing and self-service tooling.
HW/SW IntegrationStakeholder MgmtB2B/B2C GTM
04
Data-driven Decision Making
Quantitative rigor in product decisions — success metrics, Excel/JMP analysis, and perceptual metrics for image quality tradeoffs in active programs.
Success MetricsExcel / JMPPerceptual Metrics
05
AI Prototyping
Hands-on AI product experience — RAG architectures, LLM-powered agents, and MVP prototyping. Consulting project on AI adoption in wealth management.
RAGLLM Agentsn8nPinecone
06
Manufacturing & Ops Readiness
Factory process design for display metrology — 3× faster, 65% leaner codebase. Launched partner validation tool with 94% test-efficiency gains.
Factory CalibrationQuality OpsPartner Tooling
Experience

Career

A journey across startups, Fortune 500, and cutting-edge hardware — united by a single thread: building products where deep technical knowledge and customer experience both matter.

01
From Startup to Scale

I began as employee #1 at an early-stage tech startup — defining the product vision, building the MVP, and leading investor due diligence that resulted in a $1.2M Series A. That formative experience of wearing every hat set the foundation for everything that followed.

02
A Decade at Microsoft & Beyond

Ten years at Microsoft spanning two of its most technically demanding product lines. On the Surface team, I conceived and shipped four 0-to-1 display features — including a factory color calibration process that attracted multi-million-dollar internal investment and now ships in every Surface device, reaching millions of users. I then moved to HoloLens, driving complex display calibration for state-of-the-art AR hardware in manufacturing. Most recently at Meta, I defined the display color calibration process for Ray-Ban smart glasses.

03
Transitioning to Product Management

Now leading as a PM, I took end-to-end ownership of a global B2B partnership program at Portrait Displays, a display calibration company — directly interfacing with enterprise customers across Asia, Europe, and the US, and launching tiered pricing and partner tooling targeting 4× revenue growth and delivering 94% test-efficiency gains.

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Building products at the intersection of hardware and software — where deep technical knowledge and customer experience both matter. I’m completing my MBA at UW Foster, sharpening my business strategy and go-to-market thinking to bring it all together.

Full Resume
Resume_Sarkar_Mar-2026.pdf
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Patents & Publications
11 patents · 17 publications
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Academic Background

Education

A deep academic foundation in lighting, color science, and engineering — earned across three countries — now paired with business strategy through an MBA.

Master of Business Administration
University of Washington, Foster School of Business, Seattle, WA
Expected June 2026
PhD, Applied Automation & Computer Science
Polytech’ Nantes, Université de Nantes, France
2 Patents · 9 Publications · 2 Int’l Awards
MS, Color Science
Munsell Color Science Laboratory, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Industry collaboration with Intel Corp
MS, Architectural Engineering (Lighting / Electrical)
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Led to publications & industry partnerships
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Let’s Connect

I’m always open to discussing new opportunities, product collaborations, or AI builds. Reach out directly or connect on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/abhijits