AI Product Manager with 6+ years of experience building and scaling products. Love building data-informed products and solving complex user problems at scale. Strongly believe that we can solve societal problems through accessible, inclusive, and impactful information and technology experiences. Data-driven and UX focused, experienced in launching successful products in the market that solve customer problems and leading cybersecurity programs, design, engineering, and QA teams. With a background in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence at scale, looking to grow with data-driven product teams. I am curious, analytical, and passionate about building products that make a real difference in the lives of people.

Product strategy, Agile methodologies, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI-powered solutions, Cybersecurity, User experience, Design Thinking, Prototyping, Search products.

AI Search experiences for Domain Names, and Ad optimization on search

Manikanta Kotaru is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, specializing in Microsoft Azure for Operators with a focus on AI, wireless and mobile technologies. He completed his PhD at Stanford University and Bachelors at IIT Bombay, majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science fields. His expertise lies in developing programmable radio access networks and adapting foundation models for specialized domains, showcasing his hands-on experience in AI and network systems.

AI, cloud technologies, network systems, programmable radio access networks, foundation models

Adapting foundation models for specialized domain of cellular network operators. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/copilots-for-specialized-domains/overview/ https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3626111.3628191

Sharmila Reddy Nangi is an AI Research Scientist II at Axon with over five years of experience in machine learning, natural language processing, deep learning, and knowledge graphs. She holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science with an Artificial Intelligence specialization from Stanford University and a Bachelor’s degree from IIT Kharagpur. Prior to her current role, Sharmila worked as a Research Associate at Adobe Research, India. She combines strong coding skills and research expertise to develop applied AI systems, focusing on solving complex problems in AI. Sharmila is passionate about advancing AI technologies and contributing to innovative solutions in the field.

Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, VLMs

Currently working on VLMs, Human labeler assessments and ensembling techniques at Work. Passionate to learn more about new technologies and solving problems!

Sharan Saravanan is a Software Engineer 2 (SDE‑II) at Juniper Networks in Bothell, Washington. With three years of professional experience, he specializes in software development and engineering solutions. Sharan earned his Master of Science in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Washington, where he also pursued graduate technical work, and holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. He combines a solid academic foundation with hands‑on industry expertise, and remains open to new opportunities that leverage his skills in modern computing and network technologies.

Routing protocol implementation, JUNOS OS/command structure, network architecture, protocol design, systems integration, systems programming (C/C++), Python scripting, Linux, production networking software

Routing Protocol Daemon (RPD) enhancements: implementing routing protocol features (BGP/OSPF) in C/C++, optimizing control‑plane route processing and state machines; JUNOS command/CLI integration: extending command handlers and config parsing for JUNOS OS; Systems integration & testing: Linux‑based integration work, writing Python test harnesses, debugging/tracing route convergence and interoperability.