Product manager by profession, app maker on the side
I'm Gaurav Choukse — a project manager and senior business analyst in Huntsville, Alabama. By day I lead cross-functional delivery, process automation and client-facing consulting. On the side, I design, build and ship the small, private apps on this site — iPhone and Android, end to end.
Project Manager & Senior Business Analyst · Professional Scrum Master I · Huntsville, AL
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5+ years leading cross-functional delivery, process automation and client-facing consulting. A Professional Scrum Master (PSM I) with a record of managing large project portfolios, translating business needs into technical solutions, and turning data into decisions with SQL, Python and Tableau.
Experience
- Leading an end-to-end initiative to design and implement a centralized knowledge base across multiple training centers — owning scope, timeline and stakeholder alignment.
- Built a replicable organizational framework and onboarding playbooks so new centers launch with consistent processes and curriculum.
- Led a team of 10 across 50+ projects, managing planning and delivery through Agile/Scrum.
- Authored 15+ project plans and effort estimates, and owned user stories and sprint backlogs for multiple concurrent products.
- Partnered with leaders across 3+ verticals to identify and automate business processes, documenting 50+ automation workflows.
- Used SQL to fetch data and audit automation results against client databases.
Skills
- Project & Program Management
- Agile / Scrum
- Sprint Planning & Backlog Refinement
- Requirements Gathering & Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- Process Improvement & Automation
- Solution Design
- Client Consulting
- Knowledge Management
- Milestone & Deliverable Tracking
- AI-Assisted Development (Claude Code)
- SQL
- Python
- Tableau
- Jira
- MS Project
- Visio
- MS Excel
Education & certification
| Qualification | Year |
|---|---|
| M.S., Management Information Systems University of Texas at Dallas | 2018 |
| B.E., Mechanical Engineering RGPV | 2015 |
Professional Scrum Master™ I (PSM I) — Scrum.org, 2022
The apps are side projects — and I treat them like products
These are not weekend throwaways. Each one is designed, built for both platforms, submitted to the stores and supported like a real product — the same bar I hold my professional work to. They are where I own the whole thing end to end: product, design, code, release and support.
Built private, on purpose
Most apps in these categories — budgeting, food logging, personal memories — quietly make money from knowing you: ads, analytics, data sold to brokers. Mine do the opposite. Your data lives on your device. No ads, no analytics SDKs, no advertising identifiers, and nothing about you is ever sold. Where an app offers sync or sharing, it is off until you turn it on.
iPhone and Android, both first-class
A feature is not done when it works on one platform. I build for iOS and Android together, so the experience, the privacy guarantees and the support are the same whichever phone you carry.
The side projects
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Backstory
The days that mattered, remembered every year.
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KaiCalory
Food logging that never phones home about you.
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KaiJar
Know what’s actually left.
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Kaibolo
Say anything. Understand anything.
Hiring, collaborating, or hit a bug in one of the apps? Email support@gary-labs.com or reach me on LinkedIn.