Aadarsh Bohara
The Story

A product leader who ships code.

I'm Aadarsh Bohara, Associate Director of Product Management at S&P Global. I run the product organization behind the company's customer identity platform: 22 people across three global teams, roughly 4 million users, 42,000 licenses, and 150+ product lines, with over $2B in revenue riding on it.

I got here by building. Four companies founded, one exit, and fifteen years in technology across two continents, from bootstrapped startups to the City of Calgary to a Fortune 500-scale enterprise. Most product leaders drift away from the build over time. I went the other way: I still write production code most nights, and MindBacklog, my current side venture, is a full AI product I designed, coded, and run in market on my own.

The through-line in all of it is simple. I find the part of a job that a person is only doing because nobody built the thing yet, and I build the thing. A support queue answering the same question for the four-hundredth time became a RAG assistant. A specialist assembling entitlements by hand for five hours became an agent that drafts the whole setup for their approval.

Expertise

Core Competencies

Product Strategy & Roadmaps

Multi-year platform vision at enterprise scale, plus the discipline to kill a feature when the evidence says so, including my own.

Applied & Agentic AI

RAG in production, an agentic workflow in pilot, evaluation frameworks, MCP, and human-in-the-loop design. Built, not just specified.

Enterprise Identity (CIAM)

Seven years deep in Okta, SSO, OAuth, OIDC, SAML, entitlements, and licensing, from Blackline's migration to S&P Global's 4M-user platform.

Team Leadership

A 22-person product org across three global teams, hired, mentored, and pointed at outcomes rather than output.

Influence Without Authority

30+ business lines adopted shared platform standards because we published the trade-offs, not because anyone was made to.

Zero-to-One Delivery

Four companies founded. A crisis product shipped in under 30 days during COVID. An AI platform taken from empty repository to paying market.

The Path

Career Timeline

2021 — Present

Associate Director, Product Management

S&P Global

I lead the product org for S&P Global's customer identity platform: 22 people across three global teams, roughly 4 million users, and 42,000 licenses across 150+ product lines. Consolidated six legacy systems with $15M+ in long-term cost avoided, shipped SAM Assist to 150+ internal teams, and I'm now piloting an agentic entitlements workflow. Over $2B in revenue influence.

2020 — 2021

Software Development Coordinator (Product Lead, Parking Management Suite)

City of Calgary

Owned the $45M+ parking product suite serving 500K residents: payments, permits, enforcement, analytics, and the mobile app. Conceived and launched FlexPass in under 30 days when COVID collapsed pass revenue, generating $6M and recovering 40% of what was lost. Took the app from 2.4 to 4.7 stars.

2017 — 2020

Software Product Solutions Designer (Product Owner, Connected Safety Platform)

Blackline Safety

Product owner across three scrum teams for a connected-safety platform monitoring 120K+ industrial workers, through 90% year-over-year revenue growth. Led the migration of enterprise authentication to Okta and cut support tickets 70% through incident automation.

2016 — 2017

Program Manager, Contract (Product Lead, ElectionBuddy V2)

ElectionBuddy

Delivered the V2 platform rewrite in 10 months against a 15-month plan, moving 16,000+ organizations onto the system they run secure elections on, and supporting 70% year-over-year revenue growth.

2015 — 2016

Project Manager

Peerbits

Led 4 cross-functional teams delivering 11 client products globally, all on or ahead of deadline, at 95% client satisfaction.

2014 — 2015

Project Manager

Avighna Solutions / PIC Investment Group

Deployed digital security infrastructure across 13 retail sites, mitigating roughly $300K in annual theft losses, and delivered an investment tracking system integrated with CRM across three entities.

2010 — 2013

Project Coordinator

Socialite

Seven custom web builds delivered end to end: RFPs, specifications, project charters, and delivery. The start of fifteen years in technology.

Built on the Side

Founder Ventures

Products I've founded and built alongside the day job. They are where I keep my hands on the stack.

2026 — Present

Founder

MindBacklog (Aureliq Inc.)

A product intelligence platform I design, code, and operate alone: a four-phase AI pipeline, a 27-tool co-pilot, an 18-tool MCP server, and seven releases in the first two months. Live in market at mindbacklog.com.

2020 — Present

Founder

ElectionChamp

Secure online voting with AES-256 encryption, audit trails, and AI-assisted ballot creation, built solo end to end.

2023

Co-Founder

Ampliyo

A GenAI reputation platform for local businesses, taken from concept to a working multi-tenant MVP in about two months.

2013 — 2014

CEO & Co-Founder

Istudyapp

EdTech platform scaled to 120,000+ students, parents, and teachers across partner institutions. Successful exit.

2011 — 2012

CTO & Co-Founder

Frendeal

Hyper-local deals app that reached 24,000 users in its first three months.

What I'm Looking For

I'm at my best on high-stakes problems where the technology and the business case both have to hold up. I'm open to Director and VP Product roles. Based in Calgary, open to relocation, including internationally.