Taniv Ashraf | Product Manager & Creator
The Creator PM

Product Manager.
Builder. Author. Researcher.

"A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one."

I am a Product Manager by profession, but my perspective is shaped by being a creator. Whether I'm building AI agents, publishing apps to the Play Store, authoring books on Amazon, or conducting academic research—I bring a unique, 360-degree, hands-on understanding of product execution that traditional PMs rarely possess.

Taniv Ashraf

Professional Core

My enterprise product management experience scaling ecosystems.

Product Manager (Payables & Identity Management)

bKash Limited

Sep 2022 – Present

  • Launched Student Account Onboarding utilizing digital birth certificate verification, bypassing bureaucratic friction to acquire 300,000+ new users and driving 30% YoY growth.
  • Managed nationwide eKYC and digital onboarding tools, overseeing infrastructure that processes 80M+ annual identity verifications.
  • Developed the internal bKash Scam Detection System, an AI agent designed to autonomously identify fraudulent web domains spoofing the platform.

Lead Product Manager

Sheba Platform Ltd

Aug 2020 – Jul 2022

  • Led Bangladesh’s largest MSME SaaS platform (managing sheba.xyz, sBondhu, sBusiness, sManager).
  • Implemented digital onboarding, EKYC solutions, banking aggregation, and core analytics.
  • Scaled platform to serve over 1M+ registered businesses, driving 3x growth in active users by reducing onboarding latency by 40%.

System Analyst / Product Executive - Working Student (Part Time)

Sheba Platform Ltd

Dec 2017 – Nov 2019

  • Managed blog/content strategy, product analytics, and conducted UX research for B2B tech.
  • Proactively reported system bugs and drove product refinement during early developmental phases.

🏆 Licenses & Certifications

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance

Digital Product Management Specialization

Coursera / University of Virginia

Agile Development Specialization

Coursera / University of Virginia

The Creator Portfolio

My active contributions to tech, literature, and academia.

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Amazon Published Book

AI Agents for Everyone

Your Hands-On Guide to Build, Debug, and Deploy Powerful AI Agents with Gemini Models. Exploring practical applications and the future of autonomous systems.

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Amazon Published Book

The Solo Traveler’s 15-Day Logbook

Conquering Contactless Airports, Tricycle Adventures, and Asian Logistics. Documenting my passion for solo travel and the systems behind it.

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Play Store App (Live)

CoTable: Network & Communicate

The ultimate hyper-local networking app for digital nomads and founders. Turns local cafes into dynamic networking hubs.

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Play Store App (Live)

SkillHunt: Gamified Tracker

A social arena for high-achievers. Uses cutting-edge AI and biometric verification to ensure genuine growth and habit tracking.

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Play Store App (Live)

TapKeep: Smart NFC Card

An elite digital business card platform designed for founders and sales leaders. Ditch the paper business card. The magic tap.

View on Play Store →
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arXiv Research Paper

Real-Time Stock Analysis using LLMs

"A Serverless Architecture for Real-Time Stock Analysis using Large Language Models: An Iterative Development and Debugging Case Study."

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Conference Paper (HAXD2026, Spain)

Autonomous Agents for Urban Crisis

"Designing Autonomous Agents for Urban Crisis Management: A Longitudinal Evaluation of LLM Reasoning in the Global South."

Accepted for Publication
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AI Agent / Case Study

Autonomous AI SEO Agent

My journey building an autonomous SEO agent: from a simple idea to a learning machine.

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AI Agent / Case Study

bKash Scam Intelligence

How I built an AI agent to fight bKash scams and detect fraudulent phishing domains—a step-by-step case study.

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AI Agent / Case Study

The AI Employee

My blog was dead for 6 years. I revived it with an AI employee that works for free.

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Technical Deep Dive

Debugging Gemini API Migration

Resolving 404 NOT_FOUND and limit:0 Resource Exhausted Errors during Google's Gemini API migration.

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Technical Deep Dive

The Bug That Shouldn't Exist

How we investigated and fixed the infamous Gemini `v1beta` error. A deep technical autopsy.

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Taniv Ashraf

Product Manager | Author | Researcher | AI Agent Builder