After hours Mumbai, India

I build things
I wish existed.

I’m Aswin. A senior product manager in banking by day, vibe coder by compulsion.

See what shipped GitHub

Four side projects. Zero investor decks. A concerning number of late nights.

Day job Mumbai, India

I make complex systems
feel obvious.

I’m Aswin. A senior product manager working across credit cards, lending, and digital banking journeys.

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Customer-first experiences, even when the systems behind them are anything but simple.

Build log 01 — 04

Four annoyances.
Four shipped answers.

Every project starts with a real itch, becomes a slightly unreasonable prompt, and ends somewhere you can actually click.

01 / 04

The prompt

“What would an ad-free Netflix for podcasts look like?”
So I built

boxlore

An ad-free Android podcast player that turns listening history into daily briefs, semantic search, curiosity cards, and personal recommendations.

  • Android
  • Semantic search
  • On-device listening
Explore the app Source
boxlore curiosity cards
boxlore home screen
NO ADS MADE FOR EARS
02 / 04

The prompt

“Could race weekend live in one place without drowning in ads?”
So I built

BOXBOXBOX

An unofficial Android F1 companion for schedules, standings, live timing, race feeds, podcasts, P2P viewing, and a tiny Hotlap reflex game.

  • Live timing
  • Android
  • Ace Stream
Enter race control Source
BOXBOXBOX live race timing
BOXBOXBOX home screen
LIGHTS OUT
03 / 04

The prompt

“Why do avatar makers give everyone the same three faces?”
So I built

avatar lab

A playful Material 3 character studio with inclusive face parts, 35 shapes, parametric styling, and exports for web, Android, Compose, and Flutter.

  • Material 3
  • Vector export
  • Web
Make a face Source
Generated avatar with a yellow scene
Generated avatar with a purple scene
Generated avatar with a green scene
SVGPNGReactComposeFlutter
04 / 04

The prompt

“I have too many cards. Why is retrieving one detail a five-minute ritual?”
So I built

Dred

A privacy-focused card manager PWA with browser-side encryption, timed detail reveals, bill-cycle tracking, and bank-aware UPI payment flows.

  • Web Crypto
  • PWA
  • Firebase
Open Dred Source
PRIVATE VAULT
••••   ••••   ••••   2048
ASWIN C 12 / 29
Encrypted herebefore it leaves your browser
30 second revealthen details hide again

The overlap same brain, different constraints

I don’t leave product thinking at the office.

01

Notice the friction

A bad listening queue, a noisy race site, a slow banking flow. Good products begin with noticing.

02

Choose what matters

I turn an unruly wish list into the smallest thing that genuinely changes the experience.

03

Ship the answer

Not a deck about the answer. A working APK, web app, or customer journey people can use.

Day job regulated systems, real customers

I build for myself at night.
For millions by day.

My professional work sits where customer expectations meet complex banking systems. I simplify credit-card, lending, and servicing journeys without pretending the constraints aren’t real.

Now

IDFC FIRST Bank

Senior Product Manager

Loan-on-card product ownership on the business side of the credit-card portfolio.

Previously

YES BANK

Senior Product Manager, Digital Banking

Digital journeys across credit cards, asset products, and account services in IRIS.

Previously

Axis Bank

Product Manager, Digital Transformation

Instant lending, card upgrades, EMI conversion, and credit-limit journeys.

Before all that

IIM Ranchi

MBA, Marketing & Strategy

The structured half of an education that continues every time I ship something unfamiliar.