Summary
Gaurav Chandrashekar is a product-focused founder and experienced software leader with 14 years building customer-centric, revenue-driving products across fintech, marketplaces, and AI. He has launched large-scale payments and wallet platforms at Grab and PayPal—driving a $100M/year run rate for card linking—and led AI visual search and automation products that scaled from early ARR to market traction. As founder of productscale.xyz he now helps startups and scale-ups with finops automation, GTM experiments, and AI-native product strategy while also stepping in as fractional head of product. He blends hands-on engineering roots from Spotify with entrepreneurial grit (an exited acquihire and a prior startup failure), speaks multiple languages and prefers solving problems on hikes or with music, which informs his user-first approach.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Stockholm, Computer Science, Stockholm at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Diploma, Philosophy, Diploma, Philosophy at Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen
Bachelors of Computer Science, Singapore, Bachelors of Computer Science, Singapore at National University of Singapore
Swedish, Spanish, Tamil, Dutch