Product creation · applied AI · systems

I work on turning promising technology into products through discovery, technical development and stakeholder alignment.

My work sits between product ownership, engineering and applied research. I frame opportunities, build technical foundations such as interpretation and validation layers, and keep users, specialists and decision-makers moving towards a product with real demand.

Amsterdam, NetherlandsTechnical Product Owner · systems thinker
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Currently creating a market-intelligence product at TNO, with a production-engineering foundation from Flex and an international Erasmus Mundus education.

Experience

From production systems to product creation in applied research.

  1. TNO

    Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research

    The Hague, Netherlands · September 2024–present

    I work where applied research meets product creation and delivery—turning emerging technical capabilities into products with a clear user, validated use case and route to adoption. My TNO work has also placed me in public-sector and multi-partner consortium environments, including Horizon Europe-related collaboration.

    Product Owner — Market Intelligence PlatformJanuary 2026–present
    • Identified the opportunity, developed the initial product concept and methodology, and connected it to TNO's wider GenAI ambitions.
    • Led discovery with analysts, Market Strategy, Business Development and six external companies to validate decision needs and use cases.
    • Designed and developed the interpretation layer: schemas, prompts, classification logic, validation rules and supporting architecture.
    • Maintained continuity across users, data scientists and business stakeholders while building sponsorship with the GenAI Guild and Business Development for reuse in other data-focused products.
    Project Manager — Air Quality & EmissionsMay 2025–December 2025
    • Coordinated five applied-research projects involving customers, government organisations, industry partners and internal specialists.
    • Managed changing priorities, cross-project dependencies and delivery expectations across a multi-partner environment.
    • Negotiated a reduced scope that preserved customer value when a consortium partner sought to withdraw.
    Organisation Strategy Consultant — Geological Survey of the NetherlandsSeptember 2024–April 2025
    • Facilitated root-cause analysis across six departments to understand recurring handover and delivery problems.
    • Mapped ownership and workflow bottlenecks across organisational boundaries.
    • Designed a repeatable governance framework that clarified cross-team responsibilities and collaboration.

  2. Flex Ltd.

    Integration Solutions Consultant

    Chennai, India · October 2020–July 2022

    This is where I learned what dependable technology means under real operational pressure: production data, factory systems and business processes that cannot simply stop when an interface fails.

    Integration Solutions ConsultantOctober 2020–July 2022
    • Built and supported more than 10 MuleSoft integrations across factories in India and Southeast Asia.
    • Connected MES, QMS, WMS, ERP, workforce and identity systems through API, batch and event-driven patterns.
    • Translated operational requirements into data mappings, interface specifications and clear system boundaries.
    • Reduced integration processing time by 70% and strengthened batch reliability through a structural redesign.

Selected work

Things that made it past the whiteboard.

01In use · expanding

Product creation · Applied AI

Market Intelligence Platform

From product idea and interpretation layer to organisational adoption

I identified an opportunity to improve how TNO discovers market developments and portfolio whitespace, then developed the initial concept and connected it to the organisation's wider GenAI ambitions.

I led product discovery with users and six external companies, and designed the interpretation layer—schemas, prompts, classification logic, validation rules and supporting architecture—that turns corporate disclosures into structured, traceable market intelligence.

The work moved from an initial opportunity into an adopted product for Market Strategy and a reusable methodology attracting interest from TNO's GenAI Guild and Business Development community.

  • Product discovery with six companies
  • Interpretation layer built around schemas, prompts and validation
  • Continuity across users, analysts and data scientists
  • Internal demand from GenAI Guild and Business Development
02Industry capstone

Data spaces · Circular economy

MineMatch

Exploring how mining waste can become valuable input for another organisation

For a Solita industry capstone, I led a five-person international team developing a data-space concept for matching mining-sector material and waste streams with potential users.

I combined project leadership and stakeholder negotiation with hands-on platform work, helping design the APIs, traceable data-sharing flows and interfaces needed to exchange information across providers.

The project tested both the technical platform and the commercial, sustainability and trust conditions required for cross-organisational adoption.

  • Five-person international team
  • Node.js, TypeScript and PostgreSQL prototype
  • Multiple mining-sector data providers
  • Aligned with EU sustainability goals

Other projects

A few worthwhile side quests.

03Developer

IoT · Cold-chain logistics

VaxiChain

A proof of concept for safer vaccine transport, combining simulated sensor data, MQTT and OpenHAB to monitor cold-chain conditions and trigger alerts when temperatures moved outside the safe range.

Kotlin · Mosquitto MQTT · Telegraf · InfluxDB · Grafana · OpenHAB · Docker

04Project manager

IoT · Public infrastructure

Dart & Charge

An RFID and IoT-based toll-collection prototype designed to reduce waiting time and congestion at toll plazas. I led the project from concept through a working national-level demonstration.

Winner, Smart India Hackathon · #1 of 150+ teams · prototype-development grant

05Developer

Renewable energy · CINI Challenge, Italy

Beehive

A community renewable-energy concept exploring how local production and consumption data could support more coordinated energy distribution, developed as a proof of concept for the CINI Challenge.

React · Kotlin · Python · international challenge project

About & approach

Why technology is never the whole story.

I think in systems. A technology rarely succeeds because of its architecture alone; it also depends on users, incentives, existing workflows, institutional ownership and the relationships between organisations. I enjoy making those connections visible and turning ambiguity into a direction a team can act on.

I am especially interested in the earliest product stage: when a useful technical capability exists, but the product, evidence and ownership around it do not. I like turning that ambiguity into a concept, a working foundation, a validated use case and enough organisational demand to keep it moving.

I am particularly interested in public-sector and mission-driven innovation: work where research institutes, governments, companies and specialist partners need to build something together. Consortium settings—including Horizon Europe-related work—are difficult precisely because no single participant controls the whole system. That is also what makes them interesting.

“The product is only one part of the system that makes it useful.”

How I approach complex problems

01
Technology
Architecture, data, interfaces, constraints and operational reliability.
02
People
Users, teams, incentives, decision-making and the work surrounding the product.
03
Institutions
Ownership, governance, policy and collaboration across organisational boundaries.
04
Adoption
Demand, sponsorship, evidence and the path from a promising prototype to dependable use.

Education

Learning across Europe: software, sustainability and systems.

Fully funded Erasmus Mundus scholar

2022–2024

Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's Degree — SE4GD

MSc Software Engineering & Sustainability

Selected for a fully funded Erasmus Mundus scholarship covering tuition and living support for an international programme focused on software engineering, sustainability and the European Green Deal.

  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • LUT University
  • University of L'Aquila

2016–2020

Anna University

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology · graduated Cum Laude, top 10%

My foundation in software engineering, systems development and applied technology.

Languages

English
C2
Dutch
A2 · studying toward B1
Tamil
C2
Hindi
A2

Capabilities

How I work across product, technology and adoption.

01

Product creation and discovery

Ideation, problem framing, customer discovery, use-case validation, roadmaps, backlogs and the transition from technical opportunity to adopted product.

02

Technical product building

Architecture, interpretation and validation logic, applied AI, enterprise integration, data flows, hands-on prototyping and production reliability.

03

Adoption and multi-stakeholder innovation

Building sponsorship and demand across business, research, government and industry; navigating governance, competing incentives and collaboration across organisational boundaries.

The part recruiters search with Ctrl+F

The tools, platforms and delivery methods I have worked with.

Integration
MuleSoft · REST · SOAP · batch · events · RabbitMQ · Azure Event Hubs · MQTT
Cloud & data
Azure · Python · SQL · PostgreSQL · schemas · prompts · classification · Pydantic · Docker
Product
Ideation · discovery · use-case validation · roadmaps · backlogs · user stories · acceptance criteria
Collaboration
Internal sponsorship · GenAI alignment · consortium delivery · stakeholder facilitation · cost modelling

Contact

Let’s talk about what you’re trying to make work.

I am always interested in thoughtful conversations about product creation, applied AI, research-to-product work, public innovation and complex systems.

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Email
jonathanthangadurai@gmail.com
Telephone
+31 6 3057 3697
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Location
Amsterdam, Netherlands