About

Debashis Nayak

Senior Product Manager · Founder of Products Decoded, Jobtune, and Astrika

10+
Years building products, since 2013
$9.6M
ARR business unit I built and led
100+
Products shipped across my career
23M+
Users I've built products for
2
Live products today: Jobtune and Astrika

What I do

I lead product at a US fintech, where I built a $9.6M ARR business unit and an industry-first advertising engine embedded inside Microsoft Copilot. Alongside that, I run Products Decoded, a newsletter and YouTube show for people who actually ship, and I build my own products: Jobtune, an AI-native job-search platform, and Astrika, an AI Vedic astrology product.

Background

I studied Computer Science and Engineering at Centurion University. The plan was never to be a product manager. The plan was to be a founder, which is what I tried first.

At CoolHax Labs, the studio I founded straight out of college, we grew to a 50+ person team and shipped over 100 products across eight years. Some sold. Most died. The pattern that survived: products with a paying user inside the first 90 days, and a founder who used the thing every day. That is the thesis I carry into every product role since.

Career

MoneyLionCurrent
Senior Principal Product Manager, Business Unit Head

Lead product across teams in the United States and Malaysia, for a platform of 23M+ users. Built a $9.6M ARR business unit and an industry-first advertising engine embedded inside Microsoft Copilot, where the conversation itself becomes a channel that drives clicks and revenue.

CoolHax Labs2013 to 2021
Founder and CEO, product studio

Founded and ran a product studio out of college. Grew it to a 50+ person team and shipped 100+ products across fintech, IoT, automotive, and edtech. Served 100+ business clients, including government.

SabPaisa2022 to 2023
Senior PM, Indian payments and reconciliation

Led the RBI licensing process and rebuilt the product suite for compliance. Built Split Calculator, an automated reconciliation product that replaced a fully manual settlement process.

Intugine Technologies2021 to 2022
Senior PM, logistics SaaS

Built ePOD and Control Center, an ML-powered predictive logistics platform handling rate calculation, delivery-timeline prediction, and tracking in one dashboard.

Launch Pad2021 to present
PM trainer, independent

Coached 50+ aspiring product managers with a 95%+ placement rate. The foundation for the bootcamp.

What I write about

Products Decoded covers three things: AI tools through lived experience, never theory. Building in public, with real numbers and real friction. And honest takes on the product career in 2026.