Aparna Somaiah is a product leader with 11 years of experience building zero-to-one AI products, developer platforms, and infrastructure across Cloudflare, Airbnb, VMware, and Bosch. Currently a Principal Product Manager at Cloudflare, she leads AI agent experiences and support transformation using LLMs, prompt engineering, tool orchestration, and the Model Context Protocol to operationalize agentic workflows for both customers and internal teams. She previously scaled application frameworks for 600+ engineers at Airbnb and drove multi-cloud storage and Sizing-as-a-Service platforms at VMware that materially impacted pipeline and enterprise adoption. Her engineering roots at Bosch—testing systems for global OEMs—inform a disciplined systems-thinking approach to product quality and reliability. Aparna also partners with pre-seed AI/SaaS startups as a fractional product lead, blending strategic guidance with hands-on execution to accelerate product-market fit. Based in Bengaluru with an MBA from Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School, she combines technical depth, cross-functional leadership, and a knack for turning complex infrastructure into usable, impactful products.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BE Electronics and communication, BE Electronics and communication at CMR Institute of Technology (Visvesvaraya Technological University)
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Marketing, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Marketing at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
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