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Aakash Dhar — Technical Project Manager for AI & Enterprise Integration Delivery

Technical PM at BetaCraft Enterprise Integration & AI Delivery CRM · ERP · API Integration EU AI Act · Working Knowledge Open to Senior Delivery Roles · EU
AAKASH DHAR
ten years on both sides of the build.

I'm a Technical Project Manager with 8.5 years as a backend developer, now managing delivery teams at BetaCraft. I build the AI tooling my teams run on, and I read the codebase before I scope the work. Open to senior technical delivery roles in Europe, remote or relocation.

// Coder // Rider // Photographer // Cook
/ AI Systems

AI systems, in production.

Two internal systems I built and maintain at BetaCraft.

One covers the development workflow from brief to handoff. The other automates PM operations from call transcript to Jira ticket. Both are built with Claude Code and MCP, and both run on live client engagements, currently four.

2Internal Systems Built
4Client Engagements
10Years Engineering → Delivery
betacraft / internal / A

Vibe-* Framework

Agentic Dev Workflow System · 27 Skills

Engineering workflows for the full dev lifecycle, from first brief to client handoff.

  • Covers each phase: brainstorm, spec, build, review, deploy, handoff
  • Carries project context across sessions instead of re-prompting from scratch each time
  • In daily use on BetaCraft client engagements
brainstormarchitectnewfeaturedesignbugchangereviewdeployhandoff
Claude Code · Agentic AIDev WorkflowsBetaCraft Internal
betacraft / internal / B

PM Skills System

Claude-Powered PM Operations · 16 Skills

Automates the PM admin layer, from client call to Jira ticket.

  • Covers call digestion, hour estimation, SOW generation, email analysis, client drafting, and status dashboards
  • Connects to live project context via Claude Code and MCP
  • Outputs feed directly into client-facing deliverables, with a human review step before anything is sent
TranscriptBriefEstimateSOWJira
Claude Code · MCPPrompt EngineeringEU AI Act AwareBetaCraft Internal

Both systems are internal to BetaCraft. I built them and maintain them.

/ About

Who I am.

I wrote code for eight and a half years before switching sides.

I was a developer first. That changes how I manage.

I started as a developer because I wanted to know how things work. After eight and a half years of backends, APIs, and system architecture, you stop seeing software as code and start seeing it as a series of decisions, trade-offs, and consequences that someone has to own.

What pulled me toward project management wasn't the frameworks. It was noticing that most of the risk on a software project sits in the gap between what the client asked for and what the engineer built. I'd spent years on the engineering side of that gap and wanted to work both.

Now at BetaCraft I build the internal AI tooling our delivery runs on, alongside managing four client engagements that span enterprise integration work and AI platforms.

[01]I read the codebase before I scope the work

No PM-shaped proxy between you and engineering. I can challenge an estimate, spot an architecture risk, and still write the client update, without a translator.

[02]I build the tooling, not just the process

I built, documented, and shipped the vibe-* dev framework and the PM skills system myself. Both are in daily use.

[03]The buck stops with me

Client delivery at BetaCraft runs from brief to sign-off under one person. Scope changes, blockers, and budget conversations come to me directly. There is no escalation layer above me, so when something slips, it is mine to own and mine to fix.

⌁ 001

Engineering foundation

I spent 8.5 years in LAMP / Laravel, writing backends and connecting third-party APIs. I still read the codebase before I scope anything.

⌁ 002

Agentic AI systems

I build multi-agent workflows and RAG pipelines with Claude: systems that take actions, run checks, and feed outputs directly into delivery, with a human reviewing what goes out.

⌁ 003

Client & team leadership

I run sprint planning and client communication, and I keep teams moving when the requirements aren't clear yet and the time zones don't line up.

⌁ 004

Enterprise systems

I've built and delivered CRMs, ERPs, and platforms across e-commerce, energy, and manufacturing, designed to keep running after the launch week.

/ Case Studies

Case studies.

Six engagements across institutional research, LegalTech, fintech, and agentic AI. Each one is written up in detail: what the risk was, what I did, and what the evidence shows.

World Bank Group · 2025

World Bank delivery: 4-week fixed deadline, delivered on time.

Fixed institutional deadline, a compliance gap mid-sprint, and a distribution channel blocked with 400 participants waiting, all in the same sprint. The date could not move.

Fixed Deadline Compliance Risk Android · Azure
Regulatory Compliance Platform · 2026

Three-party dispute resolved: six SOW discrepancies surfaced from primary sources.

Two technical teams with conflicting accounts of what had been built, and no shared ground truth. I ran the production API tests myself, surfaced six SOW discrepancies, and documented what the evidence showed.

Stakeholder Dispute SOW Audit Title 22 · API Testing
Brieflex.ai · 2025–2026

AI platform inherited mid-build: no sprint plan, no SOW, got it moving.

No sprint plan. No time tracking. No SOW for work already in flight. How I established what had been built, where the process had broken down, and got the delivery moving again toward commercial launch.

Mid-build Pickup Process Recovery LegalTech · AI
Stefanov Capital · 2026

Three-system integration held to contract: HubSpot, Gaiia, Astro in four weeks.

Marketing site, HubSpot lifecycle automation, and a third-party checkout handoff, all in four weeks. How the integration contracts between parties were defined and held.

Multi-party Integration HubSpot · Gaiia Astro · Mapbox
BetaCraft Internal · 2025–2026

AI delivery pipeline built from scratch: 27 dev + 16 PM skills, four live engagements running on it.

A two-part AI-native delivery pipeline: 27 development workflow skills and 16 PM operations skills. A client email goes in one end; a tested, reviewed delivery comes out the other. The system that now runs BetaCraft's live client work.

43 Skills Internal Tooling Claude Code · MCP
Personal Product · BetaCraft · 2025–2026

Promptly: product built because the tool didn't exist. v2.4.1, eight modes.

Built because the thing I needed did not exist. A macOS voice-to-prompt app, iterated to v2.4.1 across eight specialist modes. No brief and no client, so every bad decision ships straight into my own daily workflow.

Personal Project Electron · macOS AI · Voice
/ PM Work

Client delivery.

Six engagements at BetaCraft: four live now, two delivered. The live ones span an AI LegalTech platform, a South Korean social platform, a US healthcare compliance platform, and a three-system broadband integration.

01
Regulatory Compliance · US HealthcareActive

Regulatory Compliance Platform

US healthcare compliance platform. Three organisations could not agree on what had been built, with no shared record to settle it.

Case study →
  • Stepped in as neutral PM and ran the production API tests myself to establish ground truth
  • Surfaced six SOW discrepancies and rebuilt the factual record so work could proceed on evidence
  • Coordinating across the three parties toward the agreed scope, currently in Phase 2.1
US HealthcareComplianceMulti-partyAPI Testing
02
Link Broadband · Stefanov CapitalActive

Link Broadband: Three-System Integration

A marketing site, a HubSpot lifecycle automation layer, and a third-party checkout handoff, with the integration contracts between them defined and held.

Case study →
  • Defined exactly what each system owned, what it didn't, and where they had to connect
  • PM on all client communication across dev, design, and QA, plus the external parties
  • Held the scope to a fixed four-week integration window
HubSpotIntegrationMarketing SiteMulti-party
03
Wepop · South KoreaActive

Wepop: Korean Social Platform

Social platform for the South Korean market: social feed, stories, and event planning. Picked up mid-build after PM departure.

  • Stepped in mid-build: worked out what had been done and what hadn't, then reset the plan with the team
  • Managing social feed, stories, and event planning features across two parallel dev streams
  • Keeping the client informed and the team moving on a product built for a market most of the team doesn't live in.
Social PlatformSouth KoreaTwo dev streams
04
Brieflex.aiActive

Brieflex: AI Bar Exam Training

I picked up a struggling AI LegalTech platform mid-build, rebuilt the sprint process, established what had been delivered, and pushed toward commercial launch from a free-beta baseline.

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  • Inherited mid-build with no existing sprint structure; established the process from scratch.
  • Managing core platform: Drill Room, Tutor Mode, IRAC practice engine, and progress analytics
  • Currently live in free beta; working toward the full commercial launch
LegalTechAI PlatformMid-build Pickup
05
Protobots.aiDelivered

Protobots: AI Chatbot Platform

GPT-4o migration on a live chatbot platform: three parties (engineering, QA, client), six weeks, no service interruption.

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  • Led GPT-4 → GPT-4o upgrade, coordinating capability rollout, regression testing, and client alignment
  • Ran sprint planning and blocker calls; owned all client communication throughout
  • Shipped on schedule, with no service interruption during the cutover
Agentic AILLM UpgradeSprint PlanningClient Delivery
06
World Bank GroupDelivered · 4 Weeks

TokoSmart: Digital Financial Literacy

World Bank Group research platform: sole TPM, four-week fixed deadline, 400 enrolled research participants, and research-ethics compliance requirements with no flexibility on the date.

  • Single point of accountability: no second PM, no escalation path, just the deadline
  • Team of 4–6: ran sprint planning, daily standups, reviews, and retros throughout
  • Drafted sprint plans from scratch, coordinated across four time zones, and delivered by the fixed date
AndroidWorld Bank GroupAgileFixed DeadlineResearch Tech

All projects managed at BetaCraft · 2024–Present

/ Credentials

Experience & certifications.

Sep 2024–NowPune

Technical Project Manager · AI Programme Manager

BetaCraft · Full-time
Sole TPM on four concurrent client engagements, from brief through delivery. The work spans enterprise integration (CRM, ERP, and third-party API projects) alongside AI platforms. Built BetaCraft's internal AI delivery tooling (dev workflow and PM operations systems, both in production). EU AI Act compliance tracking is part of the sprint process.
Sep 2022–Sep 2024Ahmedabad

Senior Software Engineer & Project Lead

WebCodeGenie Technology
Two years on AI-assisted CRM products. WebCodeGenie had no dedicated PM role: delivery sat with the tech lead, so I ran sprint planning and client communication alongside the engineering work. Integrated GPT models and the Google My Business API into Pendio; campaigns using the generated content performed about 20% better. Documented the onboarding process, which cut new-developer ramp-up by roughly a quarter.
Jan 2022–Sep 2022Ahmedabad

Operations Manager

Xyfon Managed IT
Automated order fulfilment across Amazon SP-API, WooCommerce, and Etsy on a live production pipeline; processing efficiency improved about 30% over nine months.
Sep 2019–Jan 2022Ahmedabad

Full Stack Developer↑ Promoted

Arbox Renewable Energy
Built cloud-based CRM modules for solar and wind asset management. Started as a Web Developer; promoted to Full Stack before the project ended.
Jan 2018–Aug 2019Vadodara

Web Developer

SIIMTEQ Technologies
Custom ERP modules for an Australian diamond wholesaler. The core order and stock workflows ran about 50% faster after the rebuild.
Nov 2016–Dec 2017Bengaluru

Web Developer

Amigos Automation Solutions
I built front-end interfaces and backend APIs. This was my first production code and the start of the ten years.
/ Portfolio

Development history.

Selected projects from 8.5 years as a hands-on developer.

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/ Capabilities

The toolkit.

I spent ten years building things before managing them. The tools are the same.

Project Leadership

I run projects Agile end-to-end: sprint planning, risk tracking, and stakeholder updates. The process serves the delivery, not the other way around.

Agile & ScrumRisk ManagementClient & team commsJira / MCP tooling

Communication

I don't need a glossary between engineering and business. I need ten minutes with the ticket and the person who wrote it.

Scope & budget callsCross-team alignmentClient updates

Engineering & APIs

My engineering base is PHP and Laravel: backends, third-party integrations, and Swagger docs that cut developer onboarding time by about 25%.

LaravelMySQLAmazon MWSEtsy APIREST APIsSwagger / OpenAPI
Current Focus

What I'm building now

I'm building agent workflows whose output goes directly into client deliverables, with a human review step where it matters.

Agentic Workflows
Multi-Agent Systems
RAG Pipelines
Prompt Engineering
EU AI Act Compliance
/ Writing

What I write about.

I write about agentic AI delivery, EU AI governance, and what a decade of writing code looks like when you're managing the team that writes it.

Project MgmtLatest

When AI Does the Satisfying Part, What's Left to Enjoy?

AI can make a team faster and, in the same motion, remove the craft that made the work feel good. Satisfaction is load-bearing, and protecting it is quietly the job now.
Jul 6, 2026
Project Mgmt

AI Didn't Remove the Project Manager. It Moved Where the Job Is Hard.

AI automated the visible half of the job: reports, notes, tracking. It didn't remove the PM. It concentrated the role onto the part that was always hardest, and easiest to hide.
Jul 8, 2026
Project Mgmt

What Happens to the PM When the Team Ships Twice as Fast

AI roughly doubled what my team could ship, and the pressure didn't ease. It moved, onto the one part of delivery that never gets faster.
Jul 15, 2026
Project Mgmt

Who's Accountable When the Agent Ships the Bug?

The first time production broke and someone said "the agent wrote that part," the ground shifted. Why "the AI did it" is never an answer, and where responsibility has to land instead.
Jul 22, 2026
Project Mgmt

If AI Writes the Status Update, What's Left for the PM?

A tool wrote my weekly status update in four seconds. It did the easy part perfectly and left the whole job, knowing whether "on track" is actually true, untouched.
Jul 29, 2026
Project Mgmt

Who Trains the Junior When the Agent Does the Grunt Work?

Juniors got good by doing the boring work. AI does that in seconds now, so the rung they used to climb is gone. Teaching judgment has to become deliberate.
Aug 5, 2026
Project Mgmt

When Building Is Cheap, Saying "Not Yet" Gets Expensive

Building is nearly free now, so the cost that used to filter out bad ideas is gone. The PM's leverage moved to the front of the pipeline: guarding what gets started.
Aug 12, 2026
Project Mgmt

What Are Clients Paying For When They Can Watch the AI Work?

A client watched a demo built in an hour, then asked why the rest takes six weeks. When effort becomes visible and fast, you have to name what the money is really for.
Aug 19, 2026
Project Mgmt

You Can't Plan a Quarter When the Tools Change Every Month

I planned a quarter in April; a model release made half of it obsolete by month's end. Why detailed plans became a liability, and what to commit to instead.
Aug 26, 2026
Project Mgmt

The Technical Debt You Can't See in a Fast Team

A fast team leaves a new kind of debt: not one big shortcut, but a thousand small defaults nobody remembers choosing. Someone has to look while the chart is still green.
Sep 2, 2026
Project Mgmt

What Should a PM Learn Now That the Busywork Is Gone?

When the admin you got good at becomes free, everything left standing is a judgment skill. The bet worth making now is getting better at being right.
Sep 16, 2026
Agentic AI

When Agent Teams Made My Own Framework Feel Obsolete

You spend months building something that works, then a new tool ships and makes the whole approach feel outdated. Here's what I did when that happened to me, and how I decided what was worth keeping.
Jul 3, 2026
Engineering

The Swagger Docs That Cut Onboarding by a Quarter

The least glamorous thing I did that year was write API docs nobody asked for. It also took about 25% off how long a new developer needed to ship their first real change, and it aged better than the code did.
Jun 30, 2026
Agentic AI

What a Transcript Loses, and Why It Matters in a Contract

My PM system wrote a perfect SOW from a call transcript and quietly turned a client's passing "maybe" into a committed deliverable. What transcripts lose, and why the human in the loop isn't a checkbox.
Jun 22, 2026
Project Mgmt

Done Is Not a Fixed State

Our consent step worked. Two weeks before launch, it still wasn't enough. The dangerous gaps in delivery aren't the things you missed, they're the reasonable things that don't clear a bar you didn't know applied.
Jun 22, 2026
Agentic AI

Why I Built a 27-Skill Framework Instead of Writing Better Prompts

vibe-* covers the complete software development lifecycle, from first idea to client sign-off. The story of why it exists, how it works, and what makes it different from a collection of prompts.
Jun 19, 2026
Career

What 8.5 Years of Code Actually Gives You as a PM

The specific moments where a decade of writing code changed how I ran projects, and why the background matters more than most PM frameworks admit.
Jun 17, 2026
Agentic AI

How AI Agents Actually Fail in Production

Real failure modes from running agentic delivery systems on live client projects, the ones that only show up after the demo works.
Jun 15, 2026
Project Mgmt

When Everyone Has a Different Version of the Truth

Three organisations, three conflicting accounts, no neutral ground. How evidence-based PM resolves multi-party disputes, and why going to primary sources is the only move that works.
Jun 14, 2026
Project Mgmt

The Mid-Build Pickup: What the First 48 Hours Actually Look Like

No sprint plan. No time tracking. A client waiting. Here is what a Technical PM does when they inherit a live project mid-build.
Jun 10, 2026
AI Governance

The EU AI Act Is Not a Legal Problem. It Is a PM Problem.

The questions a Technical PM has to ask at kickoff, the risks to track mid-sprint, and a live example of catching a compliance gap before it became a breach.
Jun 6, 2026
Agentic AI

The Agentic Harness: Why the Scaffolding Matters More Than the Model

Two teams, same LLM, wildly different results: why context, tools, loops, and guardrails beat model choice.
Jun 1, 2026
Agentic AI

Spec Before Code: How I Built a 27-Skill Framework for AI-Driven Development

How I stopped re-explaining my project every session: 27 structured workflows that give Claude full context from day one.
Mar 29, 2026
Agentic AI

How I Automated My Entire PM Workflow With 16 AI Skills

Transcripts, estimates, SOWs, and more: the full client-facing pipeline.
Mar 29, 2026
Engineering

The Glass Ceiling of Gemini 3.1

Capabilities and limitations for complex coding tasks.
Feb 24, 2026
Agentic AI

The Future of Autonomous Agents in PM

What changes about the PM role when the tools start making decisions on their own.
Jan 1, 2026
Project Mgmt

Unexpected Challenges in Our Last Project

What actually went wrong on a recent project, and what we did about it.
betacraft.com
Engineering

How to Use SOLID Principles Daily

Practical examples improving codebase maintainability.
betacraft.com
Methodology

Why Agile Worked in My Last Project

What made it work on that project specifically, not the usual reasons.
betacraft.com
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/ Interlude

Beyond the code.

I speak three languages (English, Hindi, Bengali) and switch between them depending on which city I'm in. When work's done, I'm usually on a motorbike somewhere, behind a camera, or making something questionable for dinner.

Travel

I visit new cities, often solo. Three languages give me three different ways of navigating somewhere unfamiliar, and getting lost is usually the best part.

Destinations

Photography

I shoot street and travel photography, looking for the frame before the moment disappears.

Street · Travel

Riding

I ride long highways with no fixed itinerary, preferably somewhere the signal drops before the fuel does.

Open Road

Cooking

I cook mostly improvised and rarely from a recipe, with strong opinions about what makes a proper meal.

Kitchen
/ Leadership
[A]

PHP Intern Batches · 2023 & 2024

Led end-to-end training for two consecutive PHP intern cohorts at WebCodeGenie, from onboarding through to live project contribution.

[B]

Training Modules & Assessments

Built training modules and assessments from scratch, mapped to what the job requires rather than what a course outline says it should.

[C]

Soft Skills & Client Communication

Taught interns how to communicate with clients: writing requirements, running calls, and handling the difficult conversations.

As Senior Engineer and Project Lead, I spent as much time teaching as I did building. Onboarding two intern cohorts end-to-end (designing the curriculum, running the sessions, getting them to a point where they were contributing to live projects) is where I learned that managing people is harder than managing code.

/ Contact

Get in touch.

I'm looking for senior technical delivery roles, preferably the kind where reading the codebase is part of the job. Remote and international both work.

hello@aakashdhar.me