Tharun Poduru
Founder and Product Manager leading Vritto across product, design, engineering, and AI. Former Amazon Software Development Engineer with an M.S. in Computer Science and an MBA from Santa Clara University, combining technical depth, customer judgment, and business strategy to build useful, dependable products.
Experience
Founded Vritto and lead the company and product across strategy, design, engineering, and AI, building a connected personal organizer for the plans, people, records, and routines of everyday life.
- Defined the product thesis, positioning, scope, and sequencing from initial problem through launch planning
- Lead product, design, and engineering across the web platform, native iPhone and Android clients, backend systems, and AI layer
- Designed a connected module system and permission model that preserve structure, privacy, and user control across very different kinds of personal information
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 companies, products, and strategic concepts that demonstrate product judgment, technical depth, and thoughtful design.
Vritto
A private, connected place for your whole life
Vritto is a private personal organizer that connects the plans, people, records, and routines of a life—giving each area a purpose-built home while preserving the relationships between them.
FilingIntel
Read Between the Filings
FilingIntel turns dense 10-K and 10-Q reports into financial signals, risk changes, management context, and grounded answers. Search any public US company and get a normalized, source-linked analysis built from official SEC data — not a language model's recollection of it.
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.