Headline

Building Oqoqo | Prev. Windsurf, Microsoft

About

I’ve spent my career at the intersection of tech, society, and literature, from doing ML research to building AI-powered products at Microsoft, AWS, and most recently, Windsurf, to publishing short stories in random anthologies, and trying my hand at creating a non profit. I like working on problems where the technical challenge is high, but so is the need for clear impact. Whether it’s building tools for enterprises, optimizing workflows with LLMs, or creating intelligent developer experiences, I focus on making AI useful, usable, and measurable. And I'm now building something from first principles. At Berkeley Haas, I lead the AI & Data Science Club, bringing together people from all backgrounds to explore how AI is shaping industries. Beyond developing tech products, I enjoy reading and finding mundane muses to romanticize, as well as contributing to multiple social initiatives. You can learn more about my ongoing projects and work on my personal website https://harithanair.com/ or on my GitHub profile (www.github.com/haritha1313).

Location

San Francisco

AI stack

notion

openai

perplexity

replit

Work experience

Building at Oqoqo, Oct 2025 - Present · 10 mos, San Francisco Bay Area

Product Strategist at Windsurf, Jun 2025 - Aug 2025 · 3 mos, Mountain View, California, United States, 5th product hire | Focus on all things B2B, enterprise, and competitive strategy Left to build something new (and exciting)

Senior Technical Product Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jun 2024 - Aug 2024 · 3 mos, Seattle, Washington, United States, Using LLMs to self optimize contact center workflows - Researched and developed thesis and product requirements on using Generative AI (an actor-critic-regenerator model) to optimize contact center experiences in Amazon Connect. - Outlined product design, high level architecture, and launch plan for proposed solution, in collaboration with engineering and sales teams.

Product Manager II at Microsoft, Jul 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Led product for Sales Copilot pilot, leveraging GPT-3.5 and semantic kernel for improved user productivity for Microsoft sellers - Led product development of Instruct-GPT based recommendation system for account planning of Strategic 500 accounts using third party market intelligence data - Envisioned and executed pipeline insight tools, process simplification, pipeline recommendations etc to reduce product siloes, improving customer satisfaction with an NPS improvement from +3 to +24 and a 40% YOY growth in pipeline association with customer priorities - ensuring customer first selling methodology

Software Engineer II at Microsoft, Jul 2022 - Sep 2022 · 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Bootstrapped Hello Cody as an AI powered voice assistant for developers, now integrated as Github copilot for voice - Pitched ‘Hello Cody’ as a product with a TAM of 2.7 million users and garnered sponsorship from Microsoft leadership - Product Manager for Contact Data Quality Services supporting lead scoring and conversion of all marketing leads and sales eligible leads of Microsoft - Led semester vision plan for the product for improved account matching and lead enrichment, attributing annual influenced revenue of $250 million

Software Engineer at Microsoft, Jun 2020 - Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Led end-to-end development and delivery of Account Transitions project that influenced sales transition of 20000+ enterprise, small medium and corporate customers - Awarded SPARK excellence award twice for improving sales process - Developed product vision and market/customer research for Hello Cody (a developer productivity product) to find executive sponsorship, that went on to be incubated under GitHub Next as Hey GitHub!

Co-Founder at Skysil, Oct 2021 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos, Our mission is to inspire the next generation of dreamers to grow, by enabling a knowledge network of students and experienced professionals interacting via focused speaker sessions.

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

Bachelor of Technology - BTech + Master of Technology - MTech, Information Technology and Management, ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management