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Darshana Sivakumar

Product Manager

Palo Alto, California, United States12 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly StableAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Led product initiatives at Google Cloud and Databricks.
  • Expert in Data and AI asset collaboration.
  • Passionate about mentoring junior product managers.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Product Management expert with a strong focus on Data and AI technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementData ManagementSecurity Management

Other Skills

Data + AI Asset CollaborationDelta SharingDatabricks MarketplaceData SharingArchitectureProduct LaunchVault WorkflowsProduct-Led GrowthVault CoreUI DevelopmentMachine LearningAnalyticsSecurityDeep LearningBig Data

About

Product - AlloyDB AI at Google Cloud. Previously: - Product Lead at Databricks, for the Data + AI Asset Collaboration product line (Delta Sharing + Marketplace) as well as strategic partnerships (e.g. SAP, Oracle). - Product Lead at HashiCorp, working on security (Vault) - with a focus on Workflows & Experiences (PLG, new hybrid capabilities (analytics, insights), DevEx, UI). - Sr. Product Manager at Amazon Web Services, working on ML (computer vision), big data, and analytics products. Passionate about building human-centered products and the power of data/ML for practical applications, as well as mentoring/coaching junior PMs. Some of my talks/demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLVK2CyWwzY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11QcTaqHE4 https://youtu.be/INwGjrAzLTY Some of my writing: https://medium.com/agileinsider/my-path-to-product-management-ed322881be53 https://medium.com/agileinsider/seven-key-take-aways-from-an-amazon-product-manager-d64724c7c440

Experience

12 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 4 mos
Average Tenure
7 mos
Current Experience

Google

Group Product Manager

Oct 2025Present · 7 mos

Databricks

Product Lead

Dec 2022Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Led product for data and 'AI asset collaboration' consisting of two product lines - Delta Sharing and Databricks Marketplace. Started off as an IC and eventually became a hybrid IC + people manager.
  • Data and AI Summit talks:
  • [2025] Delta Sharing in Action - Architecture and Best Practices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoO9nzPYEt8
  • [2025] SAP + Databricks integration powered by Delta Sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KdUcI6Ayuk
  • [2024] Announcing Databricks Clean Rooms + live demo at the keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLVK2CyWwzY&t=18s&pp=ygUSZGFyc2hhbmEgc2l2YWt1bWFy
  • [2024] Unlocking new AI use case with sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INwGjrAzLTY
  • [2023] Databricks Marketplace - going beyond data and applications: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d11QcTaqHE4&t=1264s&pp=ygUSZGFyc2hhbmEgc2l2YWt1bWFy
  • Select blog posts:
  • 1) https://www.databricks.com/blog/whats-new-data-sharing-and-collaboration-summer-2025
  • 2) https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-oidc-token-federation-enhanced-delta-sharing-security
  • 3) https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-public-preview-cross-platform-view-sharing
  • 4) https://www.databricks.com/blog/databricks-marketplace-welcomes-47-new-data-providers-q2-2024
  • 5) https://www.databricks.com/blog/whats-new-data-sharing-and-collaboration
  • 6) https://www.databricks.com/blog/unlocking-potential-private-data-sharing-using-databricks-private-exchanges
  • 7) https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-ai-model-sharing-databricks
  • 8) https://www.databricks.com/blog/accelerate-your-ai-journey-pre-built-industry-solutions-databricks-marketplace
  • 9) https://www.databricks.com/blog/announcing-public-preview-databricks-marketplace
Data + AI Asset CollaborationDelta SharingDatabricks MarketplaceProduct ManagementData Management

Hashicorp

3 roles

Head of Product - Vault Workflows & Experiences

Promoted

Apr 2022Dec 2022 · 8 mos

  • Vault "workflows and experiences" product lead. I led a team of rockstar PMs focusing on product-led growth, developer experience and new value add hybrid capabilities (eg. Vault Insights) for Vault (self-managed and cloud).
Vault WorkflowsProduct ManagementProduct-Led GrowthSecurity Management

Product Lead - Vault Core / UI

May 2021Mar 2022 · 10 mos

  • Operator workflow experiences
  • 2022 Principle Award Winner - "humility" (1 out of 9 selected in the company)
  • PM liaison for multiple customers.
  • Defined requirements for multiple needle-moving capabilities for Vault binary releases (Vault Diagnose, Insights, client count / billing tools, etc.)
  • Delivered many roadmap / EBC sessions
Vault CoreUI DevelopmentProduct Management

Senior Product Manager - Vault Intelligence & Core

Jul 2019Apr 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • ML + intelligence + analytics + core platform + security
  • PM lead for the Vault Intelligence workstream (Vault Advisor (intelligence-based policy recommender), Splunk app for monitoring Vault, new usage metrics to understand how Vault is doing from a security perspective, etc.)
  • PM lead for the Vault core platform (core workflow maturity: performance, integrated storage, UI, replication, multi-tenancy, etc.)
  • Wrote multiple PRDs, worked closely with engineering/design to deliver features, helped with GTM effort (CS enablement, internal knowledge transfers, blogs, webinars, etc.). Curated a brand new 'knowledge share' CS/sales enablement process for internal stakeholders
  • Represented HashiCorp at various events as a speaker (Starbucks SIX Conference, Splunk DevOps Open Source Insights and Innovations event: https://events.splunk.com/OpenSource22072020?elqTrack=true). Appeared on an episode of HashiCast (HashiCorp's podcast).
Machine LearningAnalyticsSecurityProduct Management

Amazon web services

2 roles

Senior Product Manager - Technical (AWS AI and Deep Learning)

Aug 2017Jul 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • PM for the externalization effort for "Machine Learning University" (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazons-own-machine-learning-university-now-available-to-all-developers/). Very passionate about machine learning education.
  • Launched the AWS DeepLens console (at re:Invent 2017). AWS DeepLens is the world’s first deep learning enabled video camera for developers.
  • Wrote PRFAQs for 2 confidential initiatives; worked with user research to gather customer use cases; worked with design and engineering to define product specifications
  • Performed market sizing (estimation) for a confidential new initiative
  • Led machine learning community initiatives internal to Amazon: organized a company wide AWS DeepLens hackathon than spanned several months and resulted in the creation of 40+ new machine learning use cases for AWS DeepLens
Machine LearningDeep LearningProduct Management

Senior Product Manager - Technical (AWS Big Data)

Feb 2016Aug 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • First product hire on the big data/analytics/AI consoles team. Owned consoles for several AWS services totaling billions of dollars in revenue. Product consoles owned: Amazon RDS, Amazon Athena (serverless interactive query service), AWS Glue (ETL as a service), Amazon Redshift (data warehouse)and Amazon EMR (managed cluster platform):
  • Defined the entire product management process for the team (now owner of 20+ service consoles across AWS).
  • Owner for the AWS Glue Console that was launched at New York Summit 2017. Drove requirements for several "intelligent" features including schema matching, notebook instances, and crawler definition.
  • Owner for the Amazon Athena console. Launched the console from scratch.
  • Owner for the Amazon Redshift console. Launched several new features including "query monitoring rules". Initiated requirements-definition for console redesign.
  • Owner for the EMR console. Launched several new features.
  • Lots of additional PM stuff: Wrote PRFAQs for a few confidential new initiatives related to big data. Led several user research studies. Led CAB (Customer Advisory Board) sessions. Developed tutorials for AWS Glue. Worked with marketing for go-to market strategy for launches. Worked with documentation on delivering great tutorials for customers.
Big DataAnalyticsProduct Management

Ibm - bluemix digital innovation platform

Product Management Practicum Intern

Aug 2015Dec 2015 · 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Worked on IBM Bluemix - the digital innovation platform that helps developers rapidly build, manage and run web and mobile applications. Formulated an effective plan that will
  • Encourage conversion of registrations to activations, activations to free trial accounts, and free trial accounts to Pay-Go accounts
  • In turn, increase revenue for IBM Cloud.

Groupon

Associate Product Manager Intern

Jun 2015Aug 2015 · 2 mos · Palo Alto

  • Worked on Groupon To Go - https://www.groupon.com/togo, Groupon's new delivery and takeout service.
  • Performed competitive and user experience analysis of competitor products.
  • Defined, designed and helped implement new features - SMS notifications, live chat for customer support, persistent cart and product feedback surveys.
  • Prioritized features for launch of version 2.
  • Quality assurance and verification of fixed bugs.

Goldman sachs

3 roles

Analyst

Jun 2013Jul 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

  • Worked on the Client Commission Management - sales/equities technology team.
  • Improved efficiency of operations users by streamlining day-to-day processes done by them.
  • Closely shadowed operations users and supported various requests given by them and Relationship Managers.
  • Worked with SQL, Java, Shell and Perl.

Analyst Intern

Jan 2013May 2013 · 4 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on the Client Commission Management - sales/equities technology team.
  • Revamped home page of Client Commission Management on Goldman 360 client portal, as per client requests.
  • Developed tools on internal CCM portal.
  • Worked with Apache Struts Framework, Ext Javascript, SQL, Java

Analyst Intern

May 2011Nov 2011 · 6 mos · Bangalore

  • Worked on the Client Commission Management - sales/equities technology team.
  • Developed reporting tools on internal portal that immensely helped reduce manual effort of Relationship Managers
  • Was responsible for the end-to-end management of a project on the Client Commission Management portal and coordination with Relationship Managers in New York and teammates in Bangalore.
  • Worked with Apache Struts Framework, Java, SQL

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Science — Software Management

PSG College of Technology

Integrated Masters — Software Engineering

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