Swarnima Shrivastava
Build AI Products with ex-AWS AI, Intel AI Staff SDE ↗ AI Product Manager
Studied at Haas School of Business (Berkeley)
Worked at Intel
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Available Monday at 6:00 PM UTC
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Swarnima's Offerings
Custom hourly · $75/hr
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Swarnima’s AI for Product Development Qualifications
Experience level: Manager
I'm a Technical Product Manager/Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building production systems at AWS, Intel, and Oracle (including foundational work on AWS AI Personalize and Intel's Tiber AI Cloud). I've spent the last several years at the intersection of engineering and product, leading cross-functional initiatives, shaping platform roadmaps, and translating technical architecture into business outcomes. I'm also a UC Berkeley-trained ML and AI practitioner and a Berkeley Haas COBE (Business Excellence) candidate, with coursework in AI-Driven Product Strategy and Executive Leadership. I founded The Product Minded Engineer Club (thepmeclub.com) and coach engineers and technical founders who are building AI products and want to close the gap between what's technically possible and what users actually need. Whether you're defining your first AI feature roadmap, choosing the right inference stack, or figuring out how to go from prototype to production, I help you with both the engineering depth and product thinking to help you build with clarity and confidence.
Swarnima can help with:
AI Agents
AI Product Design
AI Roadmap Development
Feature Prioritization
LLM-Optimized Code Base
Product Strategy
Scoping & Requirements
User Research & Insights Automation
About Swarnima
I'm a technical PM / staff software engineer with 12 years of experience building systems that operate at scale from AWS Elastic Block Store and Lambda@Edge to Intel's Tiber AI Cloud. I've been a founding team member on a cloud platform, an AWS Security Guardian, a Document Bar Raiser, and a cross-functional technical lead across AI inference, distributed storage, and observability infrastructure. I don't just write code. I shape how systems are designed, how teams make technical decisions, and how engineering work connects to business outcomes. I'm currently deepening that lens through Berkeley Haas's Business Excellence program, with a focus on AI-Driven Product Strategy and Executive Leadership. I founded The PME Club for engineers who want to operate at the intersection of technical depth and product impact because that's where the most interesting problems live.
Why do I coach?
I coach because technical excellence alone doesn't determine who gets to the next level. Clarity does. I've watched sharp engineers stall because they couldn't translate their impact, navigate ambiguity, or think at the scope their role demanded. I've also been the person in the room who could. I coach to close that gap. If you want to think and operate like a leader in interviews, in system design or in how you drive decisions, I can show you exactly what that looks like from the inside.
Work Experience
Staff Software Engineer
Intel
June 2022 - July 2025
Early team member for Intel Tiber AI Cloud, contributing to early features across AI cloud services while aligning cross-functional efforts to accelerate delivery and enhance platform scalability and reliability. • Contributed to the first prototype of Intel Tiber AI Cloud, shaping the foundational roadmap and guiding feature design across Compute, Storage, Networking, and Billing to align with product vision and strategic platform goals. • Established organization-wide telemetry standards with consistent schemas, improving backend query performance by indexes cut into half, standardizing metrics, and supporting data-driven product evaluation. • Optimized platform performance by architecting a zero-copy logging framework, enhancing observability, reducing operational overhead, and enabling actionable insights for product decision-making. Cross-functional Collaborations, AI Cloud Observability and +6 skills
AI Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
April 2021 - June 2022
Worked in AWS AI (Personalize), partnering with AI/ML scientists and engineering teams to design and deliver scalable, high-performance features that power real-time recommendations. • Led the end-to-end design and implementation of a system-wide resource tagging framework, enabling fine-grained IAM-based access control, granular cost attribution, and operational visibility for managed Personalize resources. • Volunteered as AWS Security Guardian, defining and enforcing platform security best practices, ensuring compliance and safe operations across AWS AI service platforms. • Trained as a Document Bar Raiser, reviewed and elevated 30+ design and product documents, strengthening product strategy alignment, improving decision quality, and reducing design churn across cross-functional teams. AI Based Recommendation Systems, Cloud-Native Architecture and +9 skills
Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
January 2018 - April 2021
Owned performance and scalability initiatives for AWS Elastic Block Store, collaborating with engineering and product teams to enhance customer experience. At Alexa, drove platform improvements in the routine automation framework, increasing extensibility and adoption among skill developers. • Collaborated with EBS product stakeholders to align performance improvements roadmap with customer usage patterns and operational requirements, ensuring solutions addressed real-world scalability and reliability needs. • Led a critical initiative in EBS by re-architecting a synchronized locking model into an asynchronous design, eliminating Global Work Queue starvation, improving server throughput by ~27%, directly enhancing customer-facing IO performance. • Architected and delivered a modular workflow execution framework that enabled 50+ skill developers to integrate and run custom task workflows within Alexa skills, improving time-to-market by ~30% and increasing developer flexibility through reusable platform components. Distributed Systems, Distributed Block Storage Systems and +8 skills
Software Development Engineer Intern
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
May 2017 - August 2017
Designed and delivered a web-based administrative tool from the ground up to replace terminal-driven workflows with an intuitive, GUI-based experience for field technicians. Focused on user needs and usability by integrating built-in data visualizations, boosting operational efficiency, reducing error-prone manual steps, and increasing adoption of internal tools. Front-End Development, Customer Experience and +5 skills
Release Engineer
oracle
April 2015 - August 2016
Owned release planning and execution for complex, multi-service platforms, coordinating across engineering, QA, security, and operations to deliver reliable, on-time product releases. Focused on balancing delivery velocity with quality and risk management, ensuring releases aligned with product priorities, customer expectations, and operational readiness. • Led the design of an automation solution to optimize task sequencing in cloud test resource provisioning, reducing end-to-end release time and improving operational efficiency by 10x, enabling faster and more predictable product launches. Release Management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and +5 skills
System Development Engineer
Verizon
July 2013 - March 2015
• Delivered a scalable tax calculation service replacing a third-party provider, ensuring regulatory compliance and generating measurable cost savings for the company. • Led the design and delivery of a billing service feature enabling customers to electronically sign compliance acknowledgments for auto-pay benefits, reducing customer email volume by 30% and improving the user experience. Software as a Service (SaaS), Java Enterprise Architecture and +2 skills
Education
Haas School of Business (Berkeley)
Certificate of Business Excellence, Executive Leadership, AI-Driven Product Strategy & Financial Decision-Making
2025 - 2026
Grade: In Progress Strategic executive program centered on leadership, enterprise-level decision frameworks, financial modeling for business impact, and AI-enabled product strategy.
Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science & Engineering
2009 - 2013
Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Engineering, with a focus on software development, systems design, and foundational computing principles.
Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine
Master’s Degree, Computer Science
Master’s program in Computer Science focused on cloud computing, distributed systems, and network security, preparing to solve complex technical challenges at scale.
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