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Hitanshu Parekh

Hitanshu Parekh

Product manager and self-taught product builder based in Mumbai

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Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Joined February 2026
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Summary

Product-minded builder: creates lightweight, user-focused web apps and documents the build process publicly — exemplified by Meal Mate, a PWA meal assistant that prioritizes simplicity, reminders, and ingredient-based recipe suggestions. medium+1
Early-career product professional with diverse internships: has transitioned through internships in finance and commodity research as well as event coordination into a product management role at Probus Insurance. datanyze+1
Public technical and writing presence: maintains authored content across Medium and GitHub and shares work/process publicly, indicating an interest in both building products and communicating technical/product decisions. medium+1
Academic/technical contributor: has a co-authored IRJET contribution on authentication techniques for IoT, showing engagement with technical research during studies. irjet+1

Work

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Writing

How I Built Meal Mate: A Smart Meal Assistant Using AI

March 1, 2025

A Medium article describing the motivation, feature set, development process, challenges, toolchain (including AI tools used), testing with friends/family, and future roadmap for Meal Mate, a PWA meal-planning assistant.

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Design of a Hybrid Authentication Technique for User and Device Authentication for an integrated IOT

December 1, 2022

Conference/journal contribution listed in IRJET Volume 9, Issue 12 (Dec 2022) co-authored by Hitanshu Parekh, describing a hybrid authentication technique for user and device authentication in integrated IoT contexts.

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Hobbies

Shares DJ/music-related content and appears to engage with music/DJing on social profiles. threads