Akash Yadav's
Journal
Aspiring PM · I find the problem, make the call, and ship it.
Problems · Decisions · People · Impact
OCR Studio
Reliable, zero-install OCR for Indian scripts running entirely in the browser.
[Degraded Text]
+ Proposed Fix (Diff)
Post Snap
Paste an X post link, get a clean PNG. If it is a recreation, it says so honestly.
Full post content rendered without screenshot clutter or mobile UI bars...
“My story won’t end at ‘he had potential,’ or ‘he had a bright future,’ or ‘he was destined for greatness.’ I’ll go ahead and actually become all of that. I’ll live out my potential and reach the highest level I possibly can.”
— Akash Yadav · By me, for me.
02 · Editor's Letter & Dossier
A Note Before You Read
Curiosity beyond the résumé, core mission, and current conditions report.
Read → Letter
03 · Build Desk (Shipped Products)
OCR Studio & Post Snap
Two live products: on-device privacy OCR & honest X screenshot converter.
Read → Case Studies 01 & 02
04 · Leadership Notes
Fixing a Broken Recruiter Pipeline
T&P Cell Secretary: 13 of 25+ revived recruiters, 60+ team, 1,200+ students served.
Read → Leadership
05 · Analysis Desk
Hospitality & Epsilon 6.0
10,000+ bookings (₹10.88 L / 62.3% ROI) and OTT budget war-games.
Read → Case Studies 03 & 04
06 · Field Notes
Inside a ₹65,000 Cr Water Project
Summer 2025 at Larsen & Toubro: SCADA telemetry, hydraulic nodes & scale.
Read → Field Notes
07 · The Toolkit
Product, Data & Credentials
PRD writing, user research, SQL, Tableau, Figma, BIET Jhansi, IIT Guwahati.
Read → Toolkit
08 · Off the Clock
Cricket, Kohli & Love for the Game
When the laptop closes: passion, high standards and never settling.
Read → Off Clock
09 · Connect
Got a Problem Worth Solving?
Open for APM/PM internships & collaborative builds. Let's talk.
Read → Connect
Akash Yadav's Journal · Volume I · Work in Progress. Always.
A Note Before You Read
I've always been drawn to what happens before a decision is made — how a problem is understood, what evidence matters, and why one path is chosen over another. That thread connects civil engineering, large-scale telemetry at L&T, leading placement operations at BIET Jhansi, and building live software.
That curiosity now lives outside a résumé. I build products for problems I see clearly, with decisions I have to defend. Welcome to Volume I.
From Engineering Problems to Product Decisions
I'm Akash Yadav, a B.Tech Civil Engineering student at BIET Jhansi. My academic training began with engineering — structures, systems and the logic behind how things are built — but over time, I found myself becoming increasingly interested in a different layer of problems: the decisions behind them.
Why is one solution chosen over another? What does the user actually need? How do you make a trade-off when constraints hit? Those questions turned my focus toward Product Management.
Intelligence Dossier
Current Conditions Report
OCR Studio: Reliable OCR for Indian Languages
A zero-install OCR platform for Indian scripts running entirely in the browser. Zero documents leave the device.
Most OCR tools fail on complex Indian conjuncts or require uploading confidential legal documents to third-party servers. OCR Studio eliminates both trade-offs through client-side WebAssembly recognition and a transparent diff-review engine.
Post Snap: Turning an X Post into a Clean Image, Honestly
Paste a post link, get a high-resolution PNG. If a post must be reconstructed, transparency is baked in with explicit disclosure.
Manual screenshots bring interface noise and clipped threads. Built PRD-first with strict acceptance criteria, Post Snap captures official renders first and labels recreations clearly so viewers are never misled.
Secretary · Training & Placement Cell · BIET Jhansi
From Coordinator to Secretary: Fixing a Broken Recruiter Pipeline
13 of 25+ recruiters who had paused hiring came back.
Recruiter Retention Turnaround
More than 25 recruiters who used to hire from BIET had stopped. When I asked why, the reasons were poor past experiences and follow-ups that came too late. The issue was not that recruiters did not want our students. We had made working with us frustrating.
What I Changed: I redesigned outreach across 1,000+ recruiters: segmenting them by sector, giving each coordinator clear ownership, and tracking follow-ups on a schedule so nobody waited on us.
The Pool Campus Drive: BIET's first Pool Campus Drive brought four colleges and recruiters together and led to 59 selections, 28 of them from BIET. It was formulated to aggregate regional talent pool density and attract Tier-1 recruiters who previously bypassed individual regional colleges.
Hospitality Sector · Revenue Optimization
Where Does the Revenue Go?
Optimizing revenue leakage across 10,000+ bookings in 4 metro markets.
I analysed 10,000+ bookings across Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bangalore to find where hotels were losing revenue: through pricing gaps, cancellations and underused capacity. Finding the pattern was half the work. The other half was deciding what to do about it, so I built segment-specific pricing and bundling recommendations and modelled the scenarios, projecting ₹10.88 L of additional revenue at 62.3% ROI.
Epsilon 6.0 · SSCBS, University of Delhi
Strategy Under Constraints
National Top 20 finish among 250+ teams at India's premier strategy competition.
We had to decide how two streaming platforms should spend fixed budgets on content. The hard part was not picking the best titles. It was choosing the best combination under a budget, weighing viewership, revenue potential, ratings, exclusivity and reach. That is a prioritisation problem, and it is the part of the work I enjoy most.
Inside a ₹65,000 Cr Water Infrastructure Project
Narmada–Kshipra Link Project · Indore, Madhya Pradesh
During my summer at Larsen & Toubro, I studied the execution framework of the Narmada–Kshipra Link Project and how SCADA systems monitor pumps, power use and water flow across its break pressure tanks. It was my first close look at how data, operations and large-scale delivery fit together.
Skills & Methodologies
💡 Click on any skill pill to view the exact problem, project and context where Akash deployed it.
Product Management
Data and Analytics
Build & Delivery
Education & Credentials
B.Tech · Civil Engineering
Bundelkhand Institute of Engineering & Technology (BIET), Jhansi
Expected 2027 · CGPA 8.7
Extended beyond the classroom through T&P Cell leadership, product development, and national strategy competitions.
Official Gazette · Certifications
Winter Consulting · 2025
Consulting & Analytics Club · IIT Guwahati
Structured problem-solving, case breakdown, hypothesis validation.
Ignite India · 2026
Wadhwani Foundation
Entrepreneurial mindset, customer-centric thinking, professional execution.
Cricket, Kohli and a Love for the Game
Some things don't need to contribute to a résumé. You love them simply because they're a part of you.
When the work is done and the laptop finally closes, there is only one place my mind wanders: cricket. It's not a hobby I took up to appear well-rounded, and it isn't something I analyze through a professional lens just to draw parallels. I love it for the pure, unscripted drama of it all.
I grew up watching the sport with the kind of obsessive focus only a genuine fan understands — following every ball of a five-day Test match, riding every high and low of a tense run chase, and admiring the sheer mental fortitude it takes to perform under relentless pressure.
My Cricket File
Got a problem worth solving?
Let's talk.
I am looking for APM/PM internships, and I enjoy working with people who are building products and thinking carefully about who they are for. If that sounds like you, I would like to hear from you.
Contact & Profiles
Akash Yadav's Journal · Volume I
Published, designed & continually revised by Akash Yadav.
A journal of problems solved, decisions defended, and products shipped.
Work in Progress. Always.