About
I’m Arjun Lohan, a product manager who builds. I currently lead the AI and platform initiative at Stellic, where I own the infrastructure behind degree planning and student success for 100+ universities and over 1M students: a modular workflow framework, a Plaid-like partner-integration platform, and AI agents embedded deep into the product, grounded in semantic search over Elasticsearch rather than bolt-on SQL queries.
What ties my work together isn’t an industry; it’s a way of operating. I think in financial-engineering terms (I did my master’s in financial engineering at USC Marshall and researched LLMs for investment strategy), I ship like a founder (I co-founded an AI news app that reached 50K daily users before it was acquired), and I’d rather prototype an idea than write a ten-page spec about it. At Stellic the team calls me the “AI Czar,” and the first thing I open every morning is Claude Code, with most of my workflows running through it. Most weeks I’m building something of my own (nightclaude, almashows, ScreenGif), usually to scratch my own itch.
Before Stellic I built the payments platform at Level (an insurtech reimagining dental and vision benefits) and redesigned a surgical device at Applied Medical. I’m based in Menlo Park, California, and I write about AI and markets at The Financial Engineer.
A belief I keep coming back to: the best PMs for AI products are the ones who can actually build them. Specs are cheap when a prototype takes an afternoon.
FAQ
What does Arjun Lohan do?
Arjun Lohan is a product manager who builds. He leads the AI and platform initiative at Stellic, and he ships his own AI products (like nightclaude and almashows) on nights and weekends.
What does Arjun work on at Stellic?
He leads the AI initiative and the Platform & Integration team: the modular workflow framework, the Plaid-like partner-integration platform, and the AI agents behind degree planning and student success for 100+ universities and 1M+ students.
What is nightclaude?
nightclaude is a live, public experiment where Claude trades the S&P 500 each night from a real $100,000 portfolio through Alpaca, with a public scorecard against the SPY benchmark. It studies whether an LLM can run a disciplined, risk-managed strategy. It is not investment advice.
What is almashows?
almashows is independent ticketing infrastructure for festivals and venues, built on Stripe. Organizers keep their branding, get paid directly, and own their customer data. Independent organizers in Vancouver, LA, and SF use it.
What is Arjun's background?
A master’s in financial engineering from USC Marshall, product roles at Level (payments) and Applied Medical (surgical devices), and a co-founded AI news app that was acquired. He writes about AI and markets at The Financial Engineer.