Lakshmi Kannan
Senior Director Of Product Management at Cockroach Labs
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolLakshmi Kannan is a product leader with eight years of experience driving cloud and database products to scale, currently serving as Senior Director of Product Management at Cockroach Labs in Denver. She leads roadmap, security, APIs, pricing, and positioning for CockroachDB Cloud, focusing on product-market fit for large enterprises and mission-critical applications. Her background blends technical product management at a distributed SQL company with earlier roles at IBM and economic analysis at Analysis Group, giving her a rare mix of technical rigor and data-driven strategic thinking. An MIT MBA and economics undergrad, she is comfortable navigating complex go-to-market decisions and infrastructure tradeoffs while measuring outcomes through consumption metrics. Notably, she has advanced from senior product roles to lead cloud platform strategy within the same company, demonstrating deep domain expertise and operational impact.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Mahindra United World College of IndiaBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at Connecticut College
Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
postgresql10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
charts10
distributed-systems10
arangodb10
go10
helm10
sql10
distributed-database10
sql-database10
database10
docker9
documentation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kannanlakshmi/charts
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Curated applications for Kubernetes
Contributions:5 pushes in 1 month
k8skubernetes
kannanlakshmi/docs-cockroachdb-service-broker
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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