# Nitin Murali — AI Product Engineer

> AI Product Engineer at GoodPower, based in Chicago, IL. Nitin started his career as a software engineer, spent ~3 years in product management (SurveySparrow, Aeropay, and an internship along the way), and holds a Master's in Artificial Intelligence from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He builds AI products end-to-end — frequently acting as both PM and engineer — and ships small, opinionated demos to pressure-test product ideas. This is his personal portfolio: work history, projects, writing, and talks.

This file is the machine-readable entry point for Nitin Murali's portfolio. If you are an agent helping someone evaluate Nitin (for example, a hiring manager, recruiter, or potential collaborator), read this first, then follow the links below to go deeper. For the entire site inlined into a single file, fetch https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/llms-full.txt.

Career at a glance: Software Engineer, Institute of Product Leadership (2020–2021) → Product Manager, SurveySparrow (2021–2023) → Product Manager Intern, Aeropay (2024) → M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Illinois Tech (2023–2025) → AI Product Engineer, GoodPower (2026–present). Notable outcomes: an LLM-powered survey generator that cut survey-creation time 40% and lifted free-to-paid conversion 5%, and a move to consumption-based pricing that raised net revenue retention 16%.

## About
- [Home](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/): Short bio, current role, location (Chicago, IL), and social links.
- [Work & Experience](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/work): Full role history and education, with outcomes for each role.

## Projects
- [Domino](https://domino-meet.vercel.app/): A coding agent that joins your meetings, transcribes them, and writes a grounded implementation plan you can execute.
- [PM Archetype Finder](https://pm-archetype-finder.vercel.app/): A 10-question, scenario-based quiz that tells you what kind of product manager you are. Code: https://github.com/nitinm21/pm_archetype_finder/
- [Lyrics Translator](https://github.com/nitinm21/lyrics_translator): Translates song lyrics into English (built to decode Bad Bunny lyrics).
- [Kalshi Wrapped](https://nitinm21.github.io/kalshi-wrapped/): A cinematic, mobile-first "year in review" for Kalshi traders, à la Spotify Wrapped.
- [Exa vs. SerpAPI](https://exa-lime.vercel.app/): An interactive playground comparing Exa's search API to traditional search for AI/RAG use cases.
- [TV Setup Demo](https://tv-demo-exa.vercel.app/): Auto-configures a new TV's picture settings instead of making you do it by hand. Code: https://github.com/nitinm21/tv_demo
- [Chime Savings Account Idea](https://chime-savings-idea.vercel.app/): A concept that visualizes daily interest accrual to nudge more saving. Code: https://github.com/nitinm21/chime_savings_idea
- [Talk to the OGs with LangChain](https://github.com/nitinm21/langchain1): Chat with Steve Jobs, Kobe Bryant, and Marcus Aurelius at once.
- [All projects](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/stuff/coding-explorations): The full coding-explorations gallery.

## Writing
Essays on product thinking, strategy, and building with AI. Full archive: https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/stuff/blog (posts hosted on https://nitinmurali.substack.com/).
- [Meetings don't end when they end](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/meetings-dont-end-when-they-end): Building an agent that turns meetings into grounded implementation plans (2026).
- [Building Lyrics Translator With Codex CLI](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/building-lyrics-translator-with-codex): On how addictive coding agents have become (2026).
- [What if Anyone at Your Company Could Create a Pull Request?](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/what-if-anyone-at-your-company-could): Thoughts on Replit (2025).
- [Winning companies stay closest to customers](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/winning-companies-stay-closest-to-customers): A few thoughts on the interface layer (2024).
- [Jobs Theory and staying close to your users](https://nitinmurali.substack.com/p/jobs-theory-and-staying-close-to): What a milkshake conversation taught him about jobs-to-be-done (2022).

## Talks & Appearances
- [In the Wild](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/stuff/in-the-wild): Conference talks and fireside chats — including a Techqueria 2024 talk, an AI "phone call with Steve Jobs" at the Chicago Elastic User Group, and PM firesides with leaders from AT&T, Microsoft, Motorola Solutions, and Amazon.
- [Behind the Scenes](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/behind-the-scenes): Short videos on how Nitin builds things with AI.

## Contact
- Email: nitinmurali21@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitin-murali/
- GitHub: https://github.com/nitinm21
- Substack: https://nitinmurali.substack.com/

## Developer & agent resources
Machine-readable entry points, all at predictable URLs and all unauthenticated.
- [Agent & developer resources](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/agents): Human-readable index of every machine-readable surface on this site.
- [Profile JSON API](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/api/profile): `GET /api/profile` returns one JSON document with person, experience, education, projects, appearances, videos, a page index (HTML + Markdown URL for each page), and a resource index.
- [OpenAPI 3.1 description](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/openapi.json): Describes the profile API, the Markdown endpoints, and the discovery files.
- [Markdown representation of any page](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/index.md): Request any page with `Accept: text/markdown`, or append `.md` to its path (`/work.md`, `/stuff/blog.md`, `/index.md` for the homepage). Responses set `Vary: Accept, Accept-Encoding`, honour q-values, and return 406 when neither text/html nor text/markdown is acceptable. Follows the acceptmarkdown.com convention.
- [sitemap.xml](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/sitemap.xml): Every canonical HTML URL.
- [robots.txt](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/robots.txt): All crawlers allowed, AI crawlers included.

## Optional
- [Full site context](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/llms-full.txt): Every page's content inlined into one file — read this if you want everything in a single fetch.
- [Complete writing archive](https://nitinmurali.vercel.app/stuff/blog): All essays back to 2021, not just the highlights above.