Lakshmi Sowjanya is a Senior Technical Program Manager in Amazon. With over 5 years of tenure in Amazon, she has ~7 years of program and product management experience in both start-up and big organizations. Her experience spans various domains and functional areas like - heading the launch an OTT product for Sun TV network, one of the Asia’s biggest TV networks with over 10M downloads and over 5M subscriptions worldwide; programs impacting the fulfillment network of Amazon across India, North America and Europe geographies; and compliance programs driving the Tax and legislative requirements for Amazon platform to name a few.

Lakshmi has a rich experience driving large scale cross-functional programs and coming up with product strategy and roadmap within all her tenure in Amazon. She has a rich experience of using Machine Learning to solve challenging problems impacting millions of transactions done on Amazon platform on a daily basis.

Outside of work, Lakshmi is an avid writer on LinkedIn posting primarily about program management and leadership. She is an active mentor for tens of program/product managers within Amazon and an interview coach outside of Amazon.

Lakshmi graduated from one of the most premier engineering institutes of India, the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras with a specialization in Electrical and Electronics. She also holds a post graduate degree in management from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India with a specialization in Strategy, Leadership and IT Management.

On personal front, Lakshmi has a 10-year-old daughter and they enjoy challenging each other on who can solve Sudoku the fastest and who can click and pose for photographs the best.