Tharun Poduru
Product Manager with a strong technical foundation and experience building and scaling products across large tech and independent projects, including AI-powered applications. Former Software Development Engineer at Amazon with hands-on exposure to platform and enterprise products. Currently pursuing an MBA with a focus on product management, strategy, and entrepreneurship.
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
Developing structured approaches to product discovery, market analysis, go-to-market strategy, and decision-making under uncertainty. Transitioning 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.