Manaswi Varma is a Senior Product Owner based in Cincinnati who designs and drives API roadmaps for enterprise insurance integrations, helping banks, fintechs, and brokers build quoting, enrollment, and policy platforms. With ~3 years of hands-on experience across product and backend engineering at AWS and Great American Insurance Group, she launched an MVP that scaled to $100M+ annual revenue by coordinating multiple cross-functional teams and external vendors. She pairs product strategy with engineering fluency—contributing to AWS Amplify by improving GraphQL/REST integrations, async tests, and CLI mock tooling—to ensure robust API adoption and smoother developer experiences. Also active as an AI consultant, startup founder, and weekend digital transformer of her family’s construction business, she blends pragmatic delivery with entrepreneurial curiosity. Notably, her background includes automating hundreds of E2E tests and building a GraphQL-to-SQL conversion feature at AWS, demonstrating a focus on reliability and developer productivity.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology Project Management, Information Technology Project Management at University of Cincinnati
A declarative library for application development using cloud services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:50 reviews, 59 commits, 35 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Manaswi primarily contributed to the API and testing aspects of the `aws-amplify/amplify-swift` repository. Their work involved fixing integration tests for GraphQL API with user pools and REST with IAM integration. The user also refactored code by renaming methods and added async capabilities to various data operations in GraphQL connection tests. The commits also involved adding and modifying tests, particularly for REST API integration.
The AWS Amplify CLI is a toolchain for simplifying serverless web and mobile development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:11 reviews, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Manaswi primarily focused on improving the error handling and user experience within the Amplify CLI's mock API functionality. They addressed issues related to stack traces and meaningful error messages in the mock API and Lambda functions. They also refactored code and addressed linting errors to improve code quality. The changes involved modifying the mock API's core files and associated testing infrastructure, specifically related to API and Lambda function mocking.
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Manaswi Varma - Senior Product Owner at MKR Constructions