Sharvani Haran
Senior Product Manager (Abstract Wikipedia) at Wikimedia Foundation
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSharvani Haran is a Senior Product Manager at the Wikimedia Foundation with 11 years of engineering and product experience focused on mobile and knowledge infrastructure. Previously a Senior Software Engineer on Wikimedia’s Android team, she shipped user-facing features for the official Wikipedia Android app, improving search UX and maintaining high code quality. Her background spans hands-on Android development across startups and agencies, giving her deep expertise in platform components, location APIs, offline resilience, and third-party integrations. Now working on Abstract Wikipedia, she combines product strategy with a strong engineering pedigree to bridge developer needs and large-scale open knowledge goals. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she brings both long-term open-source contribution experience and pragmatic feature delivery to complex, multilingual projects. An uncommon strength is her dual track record of shipping polished mobile UX while leading product initiatives that scale across a global volunteer ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMarimallappas
Github Skills (8)
kotlin10
javas10
searchbar10
user-interface10
android-development10
java10
searchbox10
ui-design9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
📱The official Wikipedia app for Android!
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:304 reviews, 2945 commits, 1771 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Sharvani focused on improving the search functionality of the Android Wikipedia app. Their contributions included adding a search tab to the main navigation, modifying and removing existing tabs, and updating the UI for search results. The user addressed checkstyle violations and made minor code improvements, demonstrating a focus on code quality and usability.
commonswikipedia-androidwikimediamediawiki-apiandroid
sharvaniharan/MapsApp
May 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
drawsnearestaddresslocationroute
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