Tejaswi Vinnakota

Tejaswi Vinnakota

Principal Product Manager

tejaswivinnakota@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/tejaswivinnakotagithub.com/tejaswivinnakota

Experience

Principal Product Manager, AI Safety · Microsoft AI
Oct 2024 – Present
  • Driving strategy, execution, and delivery of AI Safety for 50+ Gen AI products across MAI Grounding, Bing, Edge, and Microsoft Copilot for ~400M users.
  • Spearheading AI safety evaluations and red teaming exercises to enable secure product launches, contributing to 20% YoY revenue growth.
  • Developing and implementing AI-driven solutions that optimize safety evaluations by 60% while maintaining rigorous quality standards.
  • Building safety classifiers, fine-tuning LLMs for safety, and LLM-based auto-raters leveraging advanced prompting techniques.
  • Partnering closely with OpenAI on building safety models, evaluations, and deployments.
  • Boosting operational excellence through Generative AI / LLM Safety solutions, resulting in a 2X productivity boost and 80% reduction in OPEX costs.
  • Played a key leadership role in the launch of Copilot Search, leading efforts in detecting and mitigating adversarial attacks.
Senior Product Manager, Developer Platform and Success, Windows · Microsoft
Oct 2020 – Oct 2024
  • Led the developer ecosystem for the new Microsoft Store on Windows, from onboarding to monetization.
  • Guided the developer and user experience for Microsoft Copilot actions for first-party and third-party in Windows Copilot.
  • Drove marketplace success, enabling developers to reach 10 million app acquisitions within six months from onboarding.
  • Proposed and executed strategies to boost app acquisition success rate for developers in the Store by 25%.
  • Launched Gen AI initiatives that improved discoverability, resulting in a 15% increase in developer success.
  • Presented Store innovations and announcements at Build 2024 and Build 2023.
  • Led a team of 4 Product Managers, establishing core priorities, achieving OKRs, and encouraging growth.
Senior Product Manager · ServiceNow, Hyderabad
May 2019 – Oct 2020
  • Led Machine Learning, NLU, and Conversational experiences for Workflow SaaS Products.
  • Drove consumerization and reduced time to value in an omni-channel ecosystem.
  • Managed outbound engagement with Fortune 500 companies to promote fast adoption of AI agents and NLU.
  • Enhanced efficiency and productivity with ML-based workflow automation in agent journeys.
  • Launched VS Code Extensions Marketplace.
  • Encouraged self-service behavior and knowledge management through improved information visibility via recommender systems.
Product Manager · OpenText, Hyderabad
Aug 2017 – Apr 2019
  • Facilitated business success and adoption of OpenText Contract Center through inbound and outbound product management.
  • Created a detailed roadmap strategy by identifying KPIs to achieve business goals and ensure product-market fit.
  • Led feature development in contract management, amendments, renewals, and discovery for account managers and executives.
  • Managed a program to integrate contracts worth US $700 million, providing leadership with unified contract visibility.
Product Manager · Paytm, Noida
May 2017 – Aug 2017
  • Led customer research, roadmap development, and architecture of Paytm's business loans marketplace.
  • Performed Merchant KYC Analytics and Onboarding Process Audit, resulting in a comprehensive overhaul of KYC operations.
  • Implemented category enhancements, system design improvements, and digital marketing strategies for Paytm Mall's GoBig seller services.
  • Advanced Paytm Movies by developing inventory planning strategies, UX improvements, and pricing strategies to drive high growth.
Lead Engineer · Samsung Research, Bangalore
Jul 2012 – May 2015
  • Developed a collaborative and hybrid AR-VR solution for Gear VR, plus an interaction module for non-stereoscopic VR apps.
  • Created a 3D rendering engine for virtual tours and photorealistic AR object rendering.
  • Received the 'Samsung Employee Award' for top 1% performance and earned a rapid promotion to Lead Engineer.
  • Contributed significantly to saving $1.2 million in an M&A deal, earning Top 10% recognition and a 50% pay increase.
  • Designed a superior page turn animation algorithm for e-books app, surpassing Apple and Google.
  • Boosted runtime by 300% and performance by 50% through optimizing the animations pipeline with 3D mesh simplification.

Education

Professional Program in Artificial Intelligence · Stanford University
Present
MBA in Business Management · XLRI, Jamshedpur
2015 – 2017
Dual Degree (B.S. + M.S.) in Mathematics and Computing, Rank 1 · IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
2007 – 2012

Certifications

MIT · Data Science2018
deeplearning.ai · Neural Networks and Deep Learning2018
IDEO Design School · Design Thinking2019

Publications

  • A 3D animation and effects framework for mobile devices — SIGGRAPH 2014
  • Mobile collaborative AR/VR with real-time in place switching — SIGGRAPH 2015
  • Page Turn Animation — Samsung Best Paper Award Conference 2014
  • Drawing an automatic sketch of deformable objects using only a few images — ECCV 2012

Skills

ProgrammingPython, C++, C#, Java, Android, JavaScript, Microservices, Kubernetes
DataSQL, Kusto, Power BI, Azure Synapse Analytics, Excel
CollaborationMS Office Suite, Jira Suite, Azure DevOps, GitHub
DesignFigma, Canva