About me
Lakshmi Sowjanya is a Senior Technical Program Manager in Amazon. She is a product and program management professional with over 12 years of experience across multiple Fortune 500 companies spanning multiple industries.
Over the last 7 years, she led the launch of a multi-device OTT product, from scratch, for the biggest content provider in Asia, which now boasts of over 50 million subscribers worldwide. She spearheaded the development of large AI based solutions to solve the Tax classification problem impacting over 50 billion products sold on Amazon and over 300 million customers transacting on Amazon daily. She also drove the simplification of Amazon fulfillment network in India which resulted in saving of billions of dollars for Amazon in shipping cost.
Outside of work, Lakshmi is a board member of Women@Amazon DMV chapter and a board member of CarolinaWomenInTechnology, Raleigh chapter. She is also an avid writer on LinkedIn and shares her insights primarily on product/program management and leading with empathy and inclusion. In 2024, Lakshmi was presented the Diversity Ally award within the annual Amazon Women In Engineering event, recognizing her efforts to promote inclusion and diversity in her team and contributing towards making Amazon, a great place to work.
Lakshmi is also a product/program management speaker. In 2024, she was selected as a speaker in PM symposium, held by University of Maryland, in Agile 2024, an annual event organized by Agile Alliance group and in Agile DC, the largest Agile community organized event in the Washington DC metro area.
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 11-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.
