Tharun Poduru
Product Manager with experience building AI-powered, platform, and enterprise products. Former Amazon Software Development Engineer and Santa Clara University MBA graduate with a background spanning software engineering, product strategy, and entrepreneurship. Passionate about translating complex technology into products that customers love and businesses value.
Experience
Worked at the intersection of engineering, product execution, and customer problem-solving in the Alexa Smart Properties organization, building enterprise-grade Alexa experiences for hospitality, senior living, and healthcare.
- Reduced enterprise time-to-market for new Echo devices by ~75% through a repeatable launch-readiness process
- Built enterprise-grade role management APIs enabling near zero-touch device setup at scale
- Expanded multimodal screen experiences on Echo devices for enterprise use cases
Designed and implemented ETL pipelines integrating legacy banking systems into Palantir's cloud analytics platform for enterprise financial clients in a highly regulated environment.
- Streamlined deployment processes and improved system performance and reliability
- Collaborated with stakeholders to identify bottlenecks in existing workflows
Worked on satellite onboard computing and power management systems, gaining early exposure to mission-critical engineering.
- Developed a floating-point arithmetic co-processor — awarded Best Project at Open House 2019
- Designed a power system emulator to regulate charge/discharge states for satellite subsystems
Education
Developed structured approaches to product discovery, market analysis, go-to-market strategy, and decision-making under uncertainty. Transitioned from execution-focused engineering to product leadership.
Focused on software development, distributed systems, and web technologies. Coursework: Operating Systems, Algorithms, Distributed Systems, Mobile Development, Technology Entrepreneurship.
Foundation in electronics, programming, communication networks, AI, and IoT. Coursework: Data Structures, Neural Networks, Embedded Systems. Best Project at Open House 2019 (ISRO co-processor).
Things I've built
A curated collection of projects that demonstrate product thinking, technical depth, and strategic design.
FilingIntel
AI-Powered SEC Filing Analysis, Simplified
FilingIntel transforms dense SEC filings into clear, actionable financial intelligence. Search any publicly traded company and get instant AI-driven insights from their latest 10-K and 10-Q filings — complete with interactive charts, risk analysis, and a conversational Q&A interface.
Canva Orchestration Studio
AI Workflow as a First-Class Team Artifact
A concept product built in the days after Canva Create 2026. Canva AI 2.0 made creation conversational; this proposes the next unlock for Teams: turning the workflow itself into a saveable, rerunnable, governable artifact. Includes a full strategy doc, PRD, deck, and a live interactive prototype that converts a brief into a multi-node, multi-channel campaign graph with brand enforcement and an in-flow Approval Gate.
Apple Vision Air
Concept Product Strategy
Apple Vision Air is a product strategy project exploring how spatial computing could evolve from a flagship product into an everyday computing platform. Building from Apple Vision Pro, the work examines adoption, portfolio positioning, and platform tradeoffs to propose a mid-premium spatial computer optimized for comfort, mobility, and daily use.