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Anerudh Balaji

Product Manager
San Jose, CA
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anerudhbalaji@gmail.com
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4084804767
I am incredibly passionate about technology and it's ability to elevate the human experience. Building great products is something that excites me and want my life's work to reflect that passion.
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Work Experience

Apple

Product Manager
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Jul 2015 - Current

As a Product Manager for the Sports domain in Siri, I am actively involved in the product from design to delivery shaping the user experience, monitoring post launch and building product roadmaps for the future.

  • Responsible for design, prototypes and delivery of several key features for the Siri Sports experience across the Apple ecosystem. Ask her to "Put on the warriors game" or "What are the cricket scores ?"
  • Designed the UX interaction paradigm for the Voice only experience for Siri Sports which is featured in products such as homePod and earpods.
  • Other responsibilities include designing and owning KPIs for several Siri domains such as Sports, Health & Wellness, analyzing data and conducting user studies to improve the product.

Apple

Software Engineer
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Jul 2014 - Jul 2015
  • Engineered several key features for the Siri product such as User Data Sync, Health and Wellness initiatives.

Amazon Music

Software Development Engineer
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Mar 2013 - May 2014

As a software engineer for the Amazon Music team, I was actively involved in the design, delivery and monitoring of key aspects of the Prime Radio Station effort.

  • Designed and engineered the Prime Radio Stations tune-in for Amazon Prime Music which is currently being used by several million customers. Ask, Alexa "Put on the Jazz station"
  • Other responsibilities included designing user login flows, A/B testing the Prime music rollout, designing key APIs for the prime music platform layer

Education

University of California, Irvine

Master of Science (MS) Computer Science
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Sep 2011 - Dec 2013

National Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) Computer Science & Engineering
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Aug 2007 - May 2011

Projects

Silver Fish, Alexa App

Jan 2017 - Apr 2017

A hobby project where I built an Alexa skill that recommends books to users from NYTimes best seller lists . Ask Silver Fish, "What book should I read next ?"

We Teach Science

Mentor
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Apr 2016 - Current

Working as a mentor in We Teach Science Foundation, a program aimed at mentoring K-12 American Public school students in Math, Science via online

1 on 1 sessions, every week.

Skills

  • Product Management
  • Design
  • UX
  • Conversational UX
  • Java
  • Python
  • Project Management
  • Agile
  • Wireframe