Sharanya Vemu

I lead a small team of PMs, working on products for sovereign and regulated cloud environments, used by internal teams, partners, and customers operating across strict boundaries.

The work usually starts ambiguous: unclear requirements, fragmented workflows, and not a lot of room for error.

Most of what I do is bring clarity early and help figure out what actually needs to get built.

A few exam

Took time away from full-time work to focus on pottery — learning the craft, working with clay, and building things by hand.

What started as a break has stayed as a regular practice.

I make functional pieces (mugs, bowls) and spend time experimenting with form, proportion, and constraints. I’ve also run a few beginner workshops, introducing others to the basics and the joy of working with clay.

Spent time at GitHub working on improving how users assess and trust what they’re using.

– Explored ways to surface clearer signals of reliability and quality in GitHub Actions (such as trust indicators and usage signals), helping users make better decisions without having to dig

– Focused on making key information more visible and usable at a glance, especially in areas where trust and reliab

Worked on improving how users find and act on information within Teams, at a time when search was a frequent source of frustration.

– Reframed search from a keyword-driven experience to something closer to natural language, making it easier for users to get to what they need without knowing exactly how to ask
– Focused on reducing friction in everyday workflows, especially in high-noise environ

Worked on Teams during its early growth phase, building foundational product experiences.Shipped 0->1 Features across Analytics and Insights for Microsoft teams’ users; Features include Usage analytics, Direct Routing Health Dashboards, enhancements to Call Analytics and Call Quality Insights, helping both users and admins better understand what was happening in their environments .

Evangelized

Worked on onboarding large organizations to Microsoft 365, where the challenge was not just technical, it was operational complexity at scale.
– Helped simplify migration workflows that were initially handled by large in-house teams, moving towards a more scalable model using external partners and per-unit pricing
– Reduced friction in how organizations transitioned to M365 by standardizing and

Started out in consulting, working on large digital transformation projects across regions like Hong Kong and Bahrain.

– Managed client engagements end-to-end, often in high-stakes environments where alignment and clarity mattered as much as execution

– Built and led a team of 60+ project managers over time, focusing on delivery, consistency, and scaling operations across multiple engagements

Early in my career at Virtusa, I spent time across different roles : learnt how to be a release and build manager, developer and a test engineer to get an all around appreciation for the different life cycles of software development. These six years I worked on Solaris, Linux and coded on .NET and Java trying to understand what kind of problems I was most drawn to. What stood out fairly quickly

An Application developer coding in Java for a Tibco product

The new guy learning tricks of the trade !

May 2007