Hi, I'm Sudharsan Balaji Vijayakumar.
Technical Program Manager with a decade across solution, project, and product delivery — PLM is my domain, not my ceiling.
This is my professional notebook — a record of the thinking behind my career and the prototypes born from it. Start with About Me to know my professional journey, browse the Workbench for ideas and prototypes, or skip straight to the Notes for posts on AI, business, and product management.
Field Notes
View all →Writing on AI, business, and product management.
Think in Systems. Transform with Purpose
Many digital transformations stall before a single tool is bought, and not because of the technology. Six steps for thinking in systems and bringing people along, plus what a transformation really needs.
Read entryMeasuring an AI System, Stage by Stage
There is no single score for an AI system. What you measure changes four times between choosing a model and running one in production — what an eval actually is, which metrics earn their place at each stage, and why the governance ones belong on the same schedule.
Read entryFrom an Open-Ended Problem to a Shipped Solution
Building an agent is the easy half. The hard half is choosing what to build and closing a vague business problem into a bounded one — with TOSCAR — before a single prompt gets written. Then the four stages that follow.
Read entryThe Workbench
View all →MVPs and prototypes built outside the day job.
Findash — net worth, and the record behind it
A personal finance app that shows a household's net worth as one live number, and keeps the record of accounts, loans and policies behind it — shared read-only with a few trusted people.
MyFolio
This site — a professional site for portfolio, Notes and Workbench - built so that publishing something new is just adding a Markdown file, no code required. You're looking at the current build.
Field-Brief Intelligence Dashboard
An on-demand AI-generated intelligence brief for any tracked customer — company overview, recent developments, and suggested talking points — sourced from the company's own website, LinkedIn, and web search, with citations, not guesses.
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