Arjun Venkataswamy
Principal Product Manager - Tech - Alexa Kids at Amazon
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolArjun Venkataswamy is a Principal Product Manager at Amazon leading Alexa Kids, with 13 years of experience building customer-focused products that balance delight and safety. He combines a software development background and education management expertise to design guardrails for kids interacting with generative-AI features. An MBA from Chicago Booth and advanced training in secondary education inform his data-driven, user-centered approach and ability to translate complex regulatory and pedagogical needs into product decisions. He has steered teams through both startup and growth phases, consistently shipping features that prioritize trust and usability. Based in Chicago, Arjun brings an unusually interdisciplinary perspective—blending industrial engineering, psychology, and education—to tackle emerging challenges in family-focused AI.
13 years of coding experience
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessMaster's Degree, Secondary Education and Teaching, Master's Degree, Secondary Education and Teaching at Northwestern UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish
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Github Skills (10)
ruby-rails7
rails-generators5
rails4
css4
sass4
ruby4
ruby-on-rails3
font-awesome2
javascript1
jquery1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
arjunvenkat/boothplanner
Nov 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:9 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
arjunvenkat/arjunvenkat.github.io
Mar 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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