Kunal Kothari

Kunal Kothari

I turn complex aviation and engineering operations into working products and systems.

Technical product and program leader · 7+ years at Pratt & Whitney Commercial Engines

MBA and dual B.S. in Business & Engineering, UConn · Based in Connecticut, open to relocation

About

I've spent seven years at Pratt & Whitney Commercial Engines, currently in Maintenance Data & Service Engineering supporting Technical Publications within Publication Lifecycle Management. My work covers engineering changes, maintenance requirements, and the publications that carry them downstream into aftermarket and MRO operations, with regular exposure to engineering activity across 10 commercial engine programs.

Day to day, I manage turnaround, prioritization, and escalation for roughly 250 engineering changes per month, and coordinate large engineering-change deliveries across Engineering, Technical Publications, operations, suppliers, and customer-facing teams. I also own a $5M+ outsourced-services portfolio spanning 20+ global suppliers.

Most of that work involves taking a workflow that runs on email, spreadsheets, and tribal knowledge and turning it into a product people actually use. I lead those efforts end to end: discovery, requirements, solution design, MVP, UAT, rollout, adoption, and the metrics that follow.

Outside my day job, I founded RECLAIM, an AI product that helps small businesses find operational bottlenecks and estimate the cost of low-value work. I built it myself, which means I work directly with APIs, databases, OAuth, and LLMs rather than only specifying them.

The common thread is technical fluency applied to operations. I can sit between users, business stakeholders, and engineering, and be useful in all three conversations.

Selected Work

Most of my Pratt & Whitney work is proprietary, so I present it here at the level of systems, decisions, and outcomes. I'm happy to walk through the context and tradeoffs in conversation.

Note on scope: my work sits on the engineering lifecycle, Technical Publications, program, and product side of the commercial-engine ecosystem, not in the shop.

Pratt & Whitney · Product & Program Ownership

Commercial Publications Planner (CPP)

CPP is an engineering-change data and workflow management system supporting Technical Publications across 10 commercial engine programs, including the V2500. It centralized engineering-change data that previously lived across disconnected sources and changed how that work is tracked and managed through the publication lifecycle.

I led it from problem discovery and requirements through solution design, MVP, UAT, rollout, and continuous improvement. That meant translating Technical Publications workflows and user needs into requirements engineering could build against, coordinating business users and technical stakeholders, and running testing, implementation readiness, and change adoption.

10 engine programs 85% reduction in manual workflow loops 30% faster decision-making

Pratt & Whitney · Workflow Design

Aftermarket Worksheet

A high-volume intake process that ran on email and manual coordination between internal and external customer teams, rebuilt as a structured digital workflow. Handoffs became traceable, requests arrived in a consistent format, and the process was adopted as standard across multiple engine programs.

43% improvement in processing speed High-volume intake Standard across engine programs

RECLAIM · Founder

RECLAIM

RECLAIM landing page

An AI product that helps small business owners identify operational bottlenecks and estimate the cost of low-value work. I ran customer discovery, defined the product, designed the data model and UI, and built it, integrating OpenAI, Supabase and Postgres, Stripe, and Google Calendar OAuth.

The reason it matters here is technical range. Building it end to end means I understand how modern products are structured, and I can hold a real conversation about APIs, data, and authentication with the engineers I work with.

OpenAI · Supabase · Stripe · OAuth Discovery to production Rapid prototyping
getreclaimapp.com →

Pratt & Whitney · Operations & Supplier Management

Engineering-Change Operations & Supplier Performance

I manage turnaround, prioritization, and escalation for roughly 250 engineering changes per month, and coordinate large engineering-change deliveries across Engineering, Technical Publications, operations, suppliers, and customer-facing organizations. Alongside that, I own a $5M+ outsourced-services portfolio covering 20+ global suppliers, including statements of work, delivery cadence, and performance reviews.

250 engineering changes per month $5M+ portfolio, 20+ suppliers 15% on-time delivery improvement 100% KPI compliance 12% reduction in budget variance

Additional Scope

Technical Publications Distribution Operating Model

Developing the operating model for our Customer Service organization that supports how Technical Publications distribution is run across all 10 commercial engine programs. The work defines workflows, governance, metrics, lifecycle visibility, supporting digital tools, and continuous improvement mechanisms.

Portfolio Financial Planning

Built budget-utilization and headcount models across an $11M, ten-program portfolio to support leadership planning and resourcing decisions.

Operational Reporting & Analytics

Built Power BI dashboards and reporting cadences that replaced manual status reporting and improved visibility across 2,500+ documentation changes.

Skills

Product & Program

  • Technical product management
  • Technical program management
  • Requirements definition
  • UAT & implementation readiness
  • Rollout & change adoption
  • Stakeholder alignment

Aviation & Operations

  • Engineering-change management
  • Technical Publications lifecycle
  • Aftermarket & MRO workflows
  • Supplier operations & governance
  • Process design, Lean and ACE
  • KPI & dashboard design (Power BI)

Technical Fluency

  • Enterprise systems
  • APIs & integrations
  • Databases (Supabase, Postgres)
  • Authentication & OAuth
  • AI / LLM workflow design
  • Rapid prototyping