Tawsif Elahy

Building the Student Operating System.

• Product direction. Turning hundreds of user conversations into product decisions, priorities, workflows, and a focused MVP.
• Customer discovery. Leading 500+ conversations with students, guardians, international students, counselors, education stakeholders, and study-abroad experts.
• Product simplification. Reducing a broad vision of roughly 40 tools and concepts into a much more focused, executable product direction.
• Prototyping and shipping. Using basic design, technical understanding, and AI-assisted building to create prototypes when speed mattered more than perfect resources.
• Team building. Recruiting, rebuilding, working with technical and industry talent, and learning hard lessons about ownership and co-founder responsibility.
• Distribution and outreach. Building relationships with students, ambassadors, experts, mentors, founders, partners, programs, and potential supporters.
• Strategy. Thinking beyond features into trust, behavior, distribution, retention, partnerships, market structure, and long-term positioning.

Understanding how education operates at scale.

• Operational execution. Supporting day-to-day operational work and helping tasks move from planning into execution.
• Coordination. Working across people, information, and processes where clear communication and follow-through matter.
• Problem solving. Responding to practical operational needs rather than only theoretical product questions.
• Reliability. Learning the discipline required to execute consistently inside an established organization.

Learning business while building a company in parallel.

• Business Administration. Studying markets, incentives, strategy, organizations, and distribution.
• Building in parallel. Running EduLens alongside coursework rather than after it.