u/OptimisticSoul1

Hey everyone,

I’m wrapping up my UPSC journey and moving out of the city soon, so I'm looking to pass on my book collection to aspirants who genuinely need them. Most of the standard GS reference books, NCERT sets, and highly sought-after Maths Optional materials are completely brand new and unused.

I've attached few pictures of some available books in the first comments to this post so that you can check the exact titles and editions.

I am just looking to clean up the bookshelf as soon as possible before I leave, so please reach out and we can easily work something out regarding further information.

Location: Near Magarpatta, Pune (Local pickup is perfect if you are nearby).

Outstation: Can send them over to other cities as well if you handle the courier/delivery part.

Please send a PM or Chat directly if you are interested in any of these!

TL;DR: Moving out of UPSC/Pune soon and clearing out my shelf. Have standard GS books, NCERTs, and Maths Optional materials available for pickup near Magarpatta or outstation courier. DM me directly if interested!

Hey everyone,

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I’m looking for advice from senior platform/technical PMs who have successfully navigated the jump from a software engineering org into a formal product management track.

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My Situation:

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The Context: For the last 9 years, my official career track and titles within my organization have been under the Software Engineering umbrella (Developer, Tech Lead, Specialist, etc.).

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The Reality: Fortunately, my daily functional responsibilities heavily tilted toward Product Management. I’m not just writing code but I’m also owning end-to-end product lifecycles, authoring PRDs/user stories, managing multi-team sprint backlogs, and delivered complex platform architectures with a team of 5-6.

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The Work: I’ve delivered zero-downtime microservices migrations for over 150M+ subscribers and recently built production-level agentic AI platforms (MCP integration, RAG-based autonomous diagnostics). I also have my PSPO I.

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The Problem:Even though my actual day-to-day is core technical product management, external companies and automated screeners see my engineering titles and immediately box me into a "tech delivery" or "engineering lead" bucket. Because it's a "functional" TPM role within the organisation rather than an official PM title on paper, I am struggling to bridge that final gap in the market.

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I am also willing to pay for specialized resume overrides, mentorship, or interview alignment, but only if the provider actually correlates with my situation and understands technical platform execution, distributed systems, and real engineering-to-PM pivots.

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My questions for the community:

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For those who were "functional" PMs inside engineering teams, how did you break the title barrier to land your first official, external Product Management role other than internal moments within organisation as it won't be possible in my case?

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How do you aggressively rewrite a resume to hide the engineering-track bias without misrepresenting your internal corporate titles?

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Are there any legitimate, highly technical PM mentors or networks you recommend who specialize in this specific engineering-to-product leap?

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Appreciate any raw, candid feedback or shared experiences from anyone who has broken out of this specific trap.