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title: "Harini S. - Lead, Category (AI & STEM focused global volunteering & CSR) in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Harini S., AI & STEM Experience Design, Corporate Volunteering, CSR at Goodera | Previously - Tamil Nadu Government & Adobe based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes aistudio, claude, and gemini."
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# Harini S\. on Tal

## Headline

AI & STEM Experience Design, Corporate Volunteering, CSR at Goodera \| Previously \- Tamil Nadu Government & Adobe

## About

I am a lead in the Category team at Goodera, where I'm responsible for growing our STEM and AI catalog\. I work with nonprofits around the world to create hands\-on volunteering experiences for global companies, including Fortune 500 clients\. Much of this is designing affordable, easy\-to\-assemble kits that help children learn, from basic STEM concepts to AI ideas using edge computing\. One of these launches earned me Goodera's Innovation Award\. My role sits between product, marketing, nonprofit partners, and vendors\. I coordinate with these stakeholders to take an idea from early concept to a finished experience that volunteers enjoy, and nonprofits can actually use\. Before Goodera, I spent several months with the Tamil Nadu State Planning Commission, supporting the launch of the Centre for Innovation in Governance\. With Adobe, I spent some time managing the Pride ERG while also doing my day job as a DevOps engineer, shipping out software like Adobe Lightroom and InDesign\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

aistudio

claude

gemini

lovable

openai

Canva Magic Studio

## Work experience

Lead, Category \(AI & STEM focused global volunteering & CSR\) at Goodera, Jun 2026 \- Present · 6 mos, \- Growing the STEM and AI catalog at Goodera, collaborating with STEM nonprofits across the globe\. \- Won the "Innovation Award" for launching cool new products for children to learn AI concepts with edge computing

Senior Associate \- Category at Goodera, Oct 2024 \- May 2026 · 1 yr 8 mos, \- Creating scalable, hands\-on volunteering experiences for global corporates, including Fortune 500 clients, aligned with UN SDGs and geographically diverse nonprofit needs\. \- Designing low\-cost, STEM\-focused kits using tactile materials, helping nonprofits run impactful events worldwide, earning consistently high feedback from hosts and participants\. \- Leading cross\-functional efforts across product, marketing, nonprofit and external vendor teams to expand the campaign catalog and manage projects from concept to delivery\.

Young Innovator \(Technology\) \- State Planning Commission at Government of Tamil Nadu, Apr 2024 \- Sep 2024 · 6 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Consultant to the State Planning Commission in setting up the Center for Innovation in Governance and TANII \(Tamil Nadu Innovation Initiative\) allied activities\. \- Mapping the current workflows of departments and innovation across sectors to identify potential problem statements, gaps and use cases for innovation to effectively deliver governance\. \- Researching deep technology potential for governance delivery, while keeping the team abreast of the latest developments in the GovTech vertical across the globe\. \- Handling stakeholders to collaborate and produce surveys, reports and establish partnerships for the newly established Tamil Nadu Centre for Innovation in Governance\. \- Setting up and handling the Social Media for the Centre\.

Community Volunteer at Samaj Pragati Sahayog, Nov 2023 \- Mar 2024 · 5 mos, Bagli, Madhya Pradesh, India, Designed a basic digital literacy syllabus including training on tools \(like Kobo, Excel and Odoo\) to optimize Kumbaya's business workflows for rural women producers at Kumbaya Producer Company Limited\.

Policy In Action Fellow at Young Leaders for Active Citizenship \(YLAC\), Apr 2023 \- May 2023 · 2 mos, Remote, As a Policy in Action fellow, I worked on the Assessment of the state of Menstrual Hygiene in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu\. My team extensively researched the existing policy initiatives undertaken by the State government and presented additional policy suggestions\.

Site Lead, Pride at Adobe at Adobe, Mar 2023 \- Sep 2023 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led the Pride @ Adobe employee network at Bengaluru, an ERG for members of the LGBTQ\+ community and our allies\.

Member Technical Staff 2 at Adobe, Feb 2021 \- Sep 2023 · 2 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, \- Worked as the Release Engineer for internal Adobe Platform tools, Animate, InDesign, Lightroom Desktop, PS Express Apps \- Maintained a robust, repeatable build system for the products focusing on reducing the time taken to get a build out\. \- Created and maintained CI/CD pipelines through Python and Groovy automation on Jenkins,

Member Technical Staff at Adobe, Jul 2019 \- Feb 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, \- Worked as the Release Engineer for internal Adobe tools and Capture Apps \- Worked on Chef Scripts that automate build setup

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech, Computer Science, Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research Academy

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