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What people say

Some honest takes and reviews from the audience.

Every one is unedited, straight from LinkedIn and Maven. They come from PMs, engineers, and architects who sat through the workshops and certifications and wrote down what changed.

Recognition

The Maven 100

Maven recognised GK as a Top Expert in Product on The Maven 100, its list of the platform's standout instructors.

The same workshops and certifications these reviews are about.

The Maven 100 badge recognising Gayathri Keerthana as a Top Expert in Product. Card reads: ex-Amazon Sr. PM, running 3 ventures.

The reviews · LinkedIn & Maven

LinkedIn post by Guy Peled, Product Manager, calling GK's session 'Raise Your Technical Bar as an AI-Native PM' the best session of all 21 in the Maven / Lenny Rachitsky AI-Native PM Live Lesson series.

Guy Peled

Product Manager

via LinkedIn

“Last week, I joined a workshop with Gayathri Keerthana (GK) Shanmuga Sundaram and Jason P. Yoong that felt like someone finally put words to how I already think about AI products. The most powerful part? We spent more time writing plain-language definitions of success and failure than tweaking formulas.”

Kavitha Chetana Didugu

Enterprise GenAI & Product Strategy · Ex-Amazon (x2) & Zalando Group

via LinkedIn

“GK was excellent to work with. She supported us across AI workshops and AI course tutoring, and consistently delivered high-quality, well-structured materials and outputs… she genuinely cared about achieving strong outcomes, not just ‘completing tasks.’ … I strongly recommend her for training delivery/support and for helping early-stage startups, especially across AI, marketing, and product.”

Vitaly

Director at Aon STG · AI & Digital Strategy · Venture Builder

via testimonial

“I have not come across many such product leaders in my 14 years of experience in tech and product management, including a decade at Amazon… she has the acumen to integrate different methodologies into a cohesive strategy… Her entrepreneurial spirit, customer obsession, and innovative problem-solving skills will undoubtedly enable her…”

Sarah

Principal PMT (Applied Sciences / ML) · Amazon

Amazon

“We were seeking a product owner […] to help us understand how the ML model can be leveraged to solve concrete business problems and surface actionable insights for business users. This is where Gayathri shone… Gayathri's contributions have not only advanced the team's understanding of customer behavior but have also set new benchmarks for how we leverage machine learning in business.”

Michael

Principal Applied Scientist · Amazon

Amazon

“Her ability to implement complex economic models with practical business applications has significantly advanced our delivery optimization strategies… Her leadership in driving research for business decisions, steering high-impact projects, unblocking challenges through cross-functional collaboration and achieving measurable ROI.”

Principal Economist

Amazon

via reference letter

“I have seen her leadership, customer obsession and ability to solve complex problems with technical acumen… Her ability to thrive in ambiguous situations, collaborate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders, and balance customer needs with internal constraints makes her an invaluable asset.”

Principal Product Manager

Amazon

via reference letter

★★★★★
“Getting started with SPEC engineering has been much easier thanks to this workshop. I highly recommend it. I'm not a technical person, and the way they guided us step by step was a huge help.”

Noe

Product Manager & Technical Project Manager · Wizeline

via Maven · Product Builder Certification

LinkedIn post by Yumi Carlson, Growth and Staff-Level Product Manager at eBay, on 'Eval is the new PRD' and GK walking through the Air Canada case as a real-world example.

Yumi Carlson

Growth & Staff-Level Product Manager · eBay

via LinkedIn

★★★★★
“If you have a basic understanding of product management, claude code skills, and harnessing, this course is going to help you get an idea on how the agentic coding harnessing could be architected, based on the “building backwards” principles from Amazon. I think you would benefit from the the course if you are more technical, but I think it is equally beneficial for non-tech people who would like to take GK's framework and start vibe coding without facing AI-generated slops.”

Rudin

Senior Innovation Discovery Product Manager · SAP SE

via Maven · Product Builder Certification

★★★★★
“I've attended a few lightning sessions with GK before this and then attended this one. It's hours of jam packed practical information and advice that can be helpful at any level of AI fluency. Really glad I attended this one and am looking forward to introducing concepts (working backwards, 5 whys, decision maker, bar raiser) to my company.”

Frank

Senior Product Manager · Big Cartel

via Maven · AI PM Certification

★★★★★
“Good course, definitely great value. The instructor explained things very well and clearly in details.”

Eric

Engineering · PEC

via Maven · Product Builder Certification

★★★★★
“Great workshop, no fluff and provides a practical framework to build AI pm artifacts.”

Rushit

Enterprise Architect · Independent

via Maven · AI PM Certification

★★★★★
“A fantastic course with tons of actionable take-aways”

Ricky

Product Manager · Cocoa Runners

via Maven · Product Builder Certification

★★★★☆
“Unlike tackling pure tech concepts, which probably would not have added. Alot of value to my role as an AI engineering transitioning to Product, this workshop addressed the business and product aspects of working with AI. A very good workshop!”

Chetana

Workshop attendee

via Maven · AI PM Certification

Live from the room

What people typed in the chat · 15,473 RSVPs

“One of the best sessions from this Lightning series!!”

Vincent

“This is my favorite Maven session”

Marvin

“Awesome session, very authentic, thank you so much!”

Chris

“It's been the most practical and actionable! Thank you”

Lee

“Lenny brought us all here!”

Manny

“100% the best”

Alexandre

“You and Gayathri have a great vibe together!”

Mary A.

“great overview for evals and iterating”

Karan

“Awesome demo, really appreciate you taking the time to answer our questions!”

Matthew

“Amazing! Thank you”

Beatriz

“Chat was amazing”

dev

“Very engaging”

Raghav

The session they keep bringing up

Raise Your Technical Bar as an AI-Native PM

Guy called it “the best session of all 21.” Yumi and Kavitha point to it too. It's free, 15,000+ PMs have RSVP'd, and you can watch the recording now.

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