# Sada Kshirsagar

> Sada Kshirsagar is VP of Product Management & Operations at Tractor Supply, where he leads product for the multi-billion-dollar digital business of America's largest rural lifestyle retailer. Before that he led search, data science and B2B e-commerce product management at The Home Depot and owned the web and app shopping experience at Target. He speaks on agentic AI in retail and still builds AI products hands-on.

## Roles
- Tractor Supply Company: VP, Product Management & Operations (2024–present). Leads product for the multi-billion-dollar digital business of America’s largest rural lifestyle retailer.
- The Home Depot: Product Management & Data Science; later Head of B2B eCommerce product management for the Pro business (2011–2017, 2020–2024).
- Target: Director, Product Management, Shopping Experience (2017–2020).
- Advisor to Attention Labs, Anvai, Adeptmind and Quantum Metric; angel investor and LP in 20+ startups.
- Education: BS in Computer Science with a major in Artificial Intelligence; Wharton executive program.

## Talks
- 2026: Shoptalk Fall 2026 (Shoptalk Fall) — Executive Breakfast featured speaker: “The Intersection of Brand & Performance”
- 2026-02: eTail West 2026 (Palm Springs, CA) — Main Stage keynote panel: “Making the Most of Agentic AI: A Look into the Most Popular Use Cases”
- 2026-02: eTail West 2026 (Palm Springs, CA) — Summit Day panel: “Readying Your Employees for the Future Reality: Getting People Bought In to Using AI Every Day”
- 2025-10: 9th Annual Product Leader Summit (San Francisco Bay Area, CA) — Featured product leader
- 2024-09: eTail Connect 2024 (eTail Connect) — Panel: “An AI Temperature Check: What’s Hot and What’s Not”
- 2024-08: eTail Boston 2024 (Boston, MA) — 25th anniversary keynote panel: “Revolutionizing Retail: Practical Use Cases for Generative AI”
- 2024: eTail East 2024 (Boston, MA) — Panel: “Answering the Demand for Convenience with Seamless Experiences”
- 2023: B2B Connect 2023 (B2B Connect) — Opening keynote panel: “Customer Experience & B2B eCommerce”

## Builder projects (built with agentic coding)
- [Fit Check](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fit-check-ai-virtual-try-on/id6765996866): AI virtual try-on app for iPhone: snap any outfit and see it on yourself before you buy.
- [Riti](https://rititech.app/): AI fitting room for Shopify merchants; shoppers try complete looks on their own photo.
- [The Shiplog](https://shiplog.news/): Daily briefing on what people building tech are talking about, with a short audio edition.
- [PM Atlas](https://pmatlas.fyi/): Free, searchable library of 1,800+ product-management essays, podcasts and posts with cited answers.
- [OpenMausBot](https://github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot): open-source AI agent platform; he was the original contributor of its iOS companion app.

## Speaking topics
- Agentic AI in retail; getting AI from pilot to production; search, personalization and AI shopping; bringing teams along with AI; building with AI coding agents.

## Contact and links
- Email: hello@sadakshirsagar.com
- Website: https://sadakshirsagar.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sadakshirsagar/
- Speaker kit (headshot + bios): https://sadakshirsagar.com/kit/sada-kshirsagar-speaker-kit.zip