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Ananth Dharmavaram

A Software Engineer aspiring to pivot into Product Management

Summary: 🖐🏼

➡️ 2.5 YOE as a Software Engineer

➡️ Product Enthusiast

➡️ 2 Time Hackathon finalist

➡️ Love traveling and exploring new cultures

Basic Information 💁🏻

Education 🎓

Cornell University

Degree: M.Eng, Engineering Management

Graduating in: May’25 (2024 - 2025)

BMS Institute of Technology and Management

Degree: B.Eng, Information Science and Engineering

Graduated in: Jul’22 (2018 - 2022)

Work Experience 📥

Case Analysis and breakdowns 📋

Highlights ⭐️

⏩ Spear-headed a team of 4 in the testing efforts for a project that has impact across EMEA regions.

⏩ Solely led testing for two projects, doubling user engagement from 5% to 10%.

⏩ Received multiple awards including the “Star Performer Award”, “Sogeti Star Award”, “Sogeti Rockstar Award”, and “CLAP Award” for outstanding performance.

Contact Details 🪪

Official Email: ad2379@cornell.edu


Personal Email: ananth.dharm@gmail.com

Hi!


I’m Ananth, a recent Cornell grad with 2+ years of experience at Capgemini, leading teams and streamlining automation.


I’m seeking PM/APM/Prod analyst/QA roles in July/August 2025 to apply my technical and leadership skills to deliver impactful solutions!

Technical Skills:

Selenium, TestNG, RobotFramework, Cucumber BDD, Python, Java

Tools:

Tools: JIRA, Confluence, GitHub, Bitbucket, Postman (basic), SQL (basic), Jenkins (basic), MS Office, Google Suite

Capgemini

Project Management


2022 - 2024

Hackathons 👨🏻‍💻

2 Time Hackathon Finalist! ✨


Cornell Animal Health Hackathon + Building Tomorrow’s Workforce Hackathon (J&J) 🚀

Projects 🗂️

Course Assistant

Product Mgmt (ENMGT 5920) &

Managing a Culture of Innovation (ENMGT 6020)

Data Analytics (ENMGT 5930)

University Experience 📥

⏩ Led a team of 5 CA’s

⏩ POC for students to get info to and from the professor

⏩ Ensured Quality and feedback is provided on work done by students

Research Work 🧐

Using IoT to create a farm robot to complete all of its tasks without human intervention

Product Manager Consultant

Early Warning (Paze)


Capstone Project under DTI, SC Johnson College of Business

Led product vision

Analyzed market opportunities

Defined user personas

Developed roadmaps

Identified risks & KPIs

Formulated Go-to-Market strategies

Drafted press release

Product Management Consultant

Highlights ⭐️


⏩ Designed user workflows to enhance the platform’s functionality and user experience.

⏩ Provided feedback on product usability, identifying areas for improvement.

⏩ Collaborated with stakeholders to align product features with business goals.



Learnings


► User-Centric product thinking

► Feature Prioritization

► Effective Stakeholder Communication

Team of 4 members undertook different parts of the Asian Paints website to manually test the different functionalities available on the website.

Skills 📋

Jira

Agile framework

This project is a software application that provides doctors and patients with various functionalities. And also details pertaining to the room that are present in the hospital.

Skills

Java

Personalized job prediction system for users based on skills and interests

Skills 📋

Machine Learning

SQL

Who am I outside of what is mentioned above? 🙈

Visited 5 countries and counting


► United States of America

► Singapore

► Malaysia

► Bali

► Dubai

Things I’ve done:


► Skiing

► Mountain Coasters

► Ziplining

► ATV Racing

► Scuba Diving

► River Rafting

► Horseback Riding

► Ice Skating (Very bad at it :P)

► Snorkelling

► Kayaking in the Sea

Things yet to be done!


► Sky Diving

► Bungee Jumping

► Surfing


A few pictures to capture my adventurous spirit!

What does working with me look like?

Summary

Have you ever gotten tired of reaching out to your alums manually on LinkedIn for a coffee chat?

Check this Video, where I explain in brief how Clay can help you automate the process of setting up coffee chats with your potential connections :)

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