Shailvi Kumar

Engineer by training. Product manager by choice.

I started in software engineering, then became increasingly interested in the questions behind the code: what should we build, why, and for whom? Since then, I've worked across product, AI, data, and cloud, from enterprise software to Amazon Linux at AWS. I recently completed my MBA at UCLA Anderson. Off the clock, I'm usually underwater.

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Experience

Summer 2025
Senior Product Manager Intern - Technical, External Services (Sr. PMT-ES)
Amazon Web Services · EC2, Amazon Linux · Seattle, WA
Defined the strategy and 6-month roadmap for an AI-assisted Amazon Linux upgrade experience, synthesizing 50+ customer interviews, 1,000+ GitHub issues, and 840K+ documentation pageviews.
2024 – 2026
MBA - Technology Leadership & AI
UCLA Anderson School of Management · Los Angeles, CA
Easton Technology Management Fellow · TA, Product Management in Tech Companies · Merit Scholar · Winner, Anderson AI Prompt Challenge '24 · President, Outdoor Adventure Club · VP Professional Development, Women's Business Connection.
2022 – 2024
Product Owner / SDE III
GIVE · Bengaluru, India
Owned the roadmap and GTM strategy for a SaaS platform serving 3,000+ nonprofits and 300+ enterprise CSR partners, leading 7 engineers. NPS rose 22 points and adoption 18%.
2018 – 2022
Software Engineer to Lead Product Engineer
Goodera · Bengaluru, India
Built self-service BI tooling so non-engineers could build client dashboards without hand-written queries, cutting engineering workload ~70%. Led engineering for HDFC Bank, the most complex client, for four years, earning Employee of the Quarter.
2018
B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Rourkela · India
Where the engineering half of this came from.

Skills

Product

Customer Discovery · Roadmapping · PRFAQ / PRD · OKRs / KPIs · Prioritization · Product Analytics (Amplitude, PostHog)

AI Product

Eval Design (Golden Sets, Sealed Holdouts) · Phased Rollouts · Counter-metrics

AI Systems

Claude API · Tool Calling · Structured Outputs · Retrieval Evaluation · Spend & Abuse Controls

Technical & Data

Python · SQL · JavaScript · Supabase · GitHub Actions · AWS EC2 & Amazon Linux

Working Knowledge

RAG · Agent & Workflow Patterns · MCP · Prompt Injection & Least Privilege

Outside the Terminal

I'm a PADI diver first and almost everything else second — when I'm not underwater, I'm probably hiking, learning to surf, or nursing another disappointing F1 result.

115+

Logged dives

Years volunteering

20+

Countries explored

4 GP · 2 WC

Attended

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