# Suhail Khan

> Suhail Khan is a San Francisco-based AI strategist, product manager, engineer and creator whose career has repeatedly turned small experiments into practical products. After co-founding the student writing platform QBox at BITS Pilani, he built BizzBucket into a business with 100,000 monthly readers, worked in software and product roles at CGI and Oracle, completed graduate study in product management at Carnegie Mellon, and joined Distyl to work on enterprise AI deployment.

- **Role:** AI Strategist at Distyl
- **Organizations:** Distyl, BizzBucket, Carnegie Mellon University, Oracle, CGI, FlexGen, Walled AI, American Eagle Outfitters, QBox, BITS Pilani
- **Education:** Master of Science in Product Management, Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business, Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
- **Known for:** Built BizzBucket to 100,000 monthly readers and more than $42,000 in revenue, according to his portfolio., Co-founded QBox, which was selected for a Rajasthan government-backed student startup exposure program in the San Francisco Bay Area., Won first place in the WealthMeUp track at CMU ProdHacks 2025 with an AI-personalized financial education concept.

## Career timeline

- **2017** — Worked in product marketing at Vinculum Solutions.
- **2018** — Co-founded QBox at BITS Pilani and joined a government-backed student startup exposure program in the San Francisco Bay Area; also worked in product marketing at ReportGarden.
- **2019** — Started BizzBucket and joined CGI as a software engineer.
- **2021** — Joined Oracle, working across software engineering and product responsibilities on supply-chain software.
- **2024** — Began graduate study in product management at Carnegie Mellon and worked on AI product management at Walled AI.
- **2025** — Won the WealthMeUp track at CMU ProdHacks with Team GameChangers; completed a product internship at FlexGen and a product-management capstone with American Eagle Outfitters.
- **2026** — Celebrated graduation from Carnegie Mellon and joined Distyl in San Francisco as an AI Strategist with forward-deployed AI product responsibilities.

## Achievements

- Built BizzBucket to 100,000 monthly readers and more than $42,000 in revenue, according to his portfolio.
- Co-founded QBox, which was selected for a Rajasthan government-backed student startup exposure program in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Won first place in the WealthMeUp track at CMU ProdHacks 2025 with an AI-personalized financial education concept.
- Led or contributed to mobile products including a baby-name app with more than 50,000 downloads and the Lafz Urdu poetry app.
- Built a public GitHub portfolio spanning multi-agent systems, retrieval-augmented generation, model evaluation and AI moderation.
- Completed a Master of Science in Product Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Announced that he had joined Distyl in San Francisco as an AI Strategist, taking on forward-deployed AI product-management responsibilities.
- **2026-06** — Publicly celebrated completing his Master of Science in Product Management at Carnegie Mellon University.
- **2025-12** — Completed an American Eagle Outfitters capstone focused on a multi-agent shopping experience.
- **2025-08** — Published a video recounting the path from QBox's failure to BizzBucket reaching 100,000 monthly readers.

## Links

- Website: https://bizzbucket.co/suhail-khans-portfolio/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iam-suhail
- GitHub: https://github.com/im-suhailkhan
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@suhail.insights

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Last updated: 2026-09-27