Hi! :)

Sridevi Vijayaraghavan

You can call me Sri, or Devi (pronounced:they-we). I'm really curious about tech, and more recently AI.

Open to roles in Business, Strategy and Product Operations

I'm an ex-VMware Technical Program Manager and a recent Dartmouth MBA graduate focused on Product Ops, Business Ops, and AI strategy roles. I use AI tools to build research systems, dashboards, and product experiments.

Recent builds

→ Wayfarer, a walking app that turns daily steps into AI-narrated journeys
→ SaaS pricing intelligence dashboard
→ Cursor inference cost-chain analysis

About

I spent ~6 years at VMware as a Technical Program Manager, orchestrating complex release programs across large engineering orgs. I then went on to pursue an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. My goal from B-school was to leverage my experience in tech, and build business fundamentals to work at the intersection of tech and strategy.

While in school (2023 to 2025), AI took over the world, and reset what "work" means. I followed the news, talked to a lot of people, but realised this is something I needed to sculpt on my own.

So, I've been doing that. This page is to tell you what my resume can't, and an attempt to be vulnerable while I explore. It's also an invitation to have a conversation, about anything. A new project, an idea we can test together, a problem you're looking to solve with AI and want to brainstorm together, or simply say hello 🙂

Career

My resume is right here to view if you're interested. View resume. But I put in all this work writing it down here, so stick around if you have time.

VMware

I was here for a while. I learned a LOT.

36+ releases shipped

3 product lines

20 products certified for accessibility

7 awards

NSX-T Data Center 15

NSX Container Plugin 12

Container Networking with Antrea 9

NSX

15 releases

3.0.x 3.1.x 3.2.x

NCP

12 releases

3.1.x 3.2.x 4.x

Antrea

9 releases

1.1-1.2

1.3.x

1.4-1.7

I ran a tonne of programs. Met extremely talented people. Received amazing mentorship. And learned some things:

Cross-functional leadership

I know. But I put it here because : look at the number of launches. I certainly didn't do it by myself. The engineering horsepower, the product build, the marketing work, the legalese around all of it. This was a team effort, managed across multiple geographies.

Stakeholder management

It's no joke when customer success is screaming for help because all the client can see is a blue screen. Panic sets in. Priorities need to be rearranged. There's always someone who thinks this is a great opportunity to add additional fixes. Do you push back because engineering has other priorities? Do you agree because this will help with customer retention and ease their pain? In this situation, you can argue either way, but context can vary judgement wildly. I learned to ask questions, understand stakeholder motivations, and think through the best way to expand the pie.

Process improvement

Many people hate processes, and for good reason. Unnecessary ones bog down teams and rarely get adopted, especially if they're bureaucratic. I learned how to not just create new processes (and help get them adopted), but in some cases to pare them down. This came from understanding the needs of the team, how they were executing at that point, and identifying the bottlenecks that surfaced. Plus validating with stakeholders: if they thought it was pointless, then no. If they thought it was great but never used it, it was still pointless.

Presenting to VPs and execs

Nerve-wracking, but rewarding. It gave me the opportunity to understand how to zoom out and think about the bigger picture, because they would test my judgement, data, and insights.

This is what led me to pursue my MBA, because I was obsessed with: but WHY are we doing this, WHAT is our overall strategy, HOW does this help?

Skygeni (MBA Internship)

An early-stage AI revenue intelligence startup. I wanted to learn everything. Early-stage felt like the best place to do it, because you work closely with the founder, and because I'd been sequestered inside a conglomerate for a while.

There was no particular designation. My role was to understand the product and its offerings, who is most likely suffering from a problem we could solve, and how to share that with them. I was on customer calls, reading books on B2B sales and positioning, conducting market research, and experimenting. We introduced new features, built relationships and partnerships, added case studies, and redid the website.

Now

It's a pure hustle at this point.

By day, I'm a Business Operations professional at another early-stage AI startup. A brilliant team, building in stealth. I've built a GTM motion, figured out how to run outreach, and gained a new respect for everything sales-related.

By night, and sometimes during the day, I'm talking to AI, building projects, learning as much as I can, as fast as I can.

Projects

Things I've built with AI tools

Product

Wayfarer

Product

Walking motivation iOS app. Turns daily steps into a virtual journey on a map, with AI-generated story cards at each milestone.

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I felt like all the walking I was doing, because someone said 10,000 steps wasn't an interesting enough motivator for me. I've always wanted to know if I had walked from (for example) Somerville to Yellowstone. I felt like having a virtual journey would be fun, and I wanted it to have a narrative as I went along.

What I learned

→ Building an iOS app is not easy. Having a clear vision for the product shepherded me through the process.
→ Test test test. I asked AI to build unit tests for every milestone.
→ Document everything. After a point, my AI and I were both talking gibberish without context. Maintaining an md file made a big difference.
→ Next time, I'd break milestones down further into phases, with explicit user-test checkpoints.

Saferides

Product

A rideshare app for the Tuck student volunteer driving program. Built with another Tuck PM to formalize a night-time ride service in Hanover.

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Given that Dartmouth is in Hanover, and the cab service there is minimal. Tuckies have a program where you can sign up to volunteer and drive your friends if they need a ride in the night. I loved this, and wanted to have an app for this. So, another Tuckie (who's a PM) and I are building this.

Business tools

SaaS Pricing Intelligence

Business

Tracks pricing strategy across 134 SaaS companies. A weekly-refreshing dashboard that scrapes vendor pages and extracts tier structure and AI feature packaging.

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This is an experiment to see how strategic shifts in the industry can be tied to price variations in their offerings. It's a weekly refreshing dashboard that scrapes data from 134 companies, extracts tier structure and AI feature packaging and presents it on a dashboard.

Cursor Cost Chain

Business

An interactive walkthrough of the AI cost chain, from TSMC's silicon down to Cursor's flat subscription.

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The acquisition news of Cursor sparked this. I wanted to understand, how SpaceX got to the $60B valuation, which then led me to want to find out where Cursor sat in the ecosystem. I believe this will need to be updated as the news evolves.

AI Startup Tracker

Business

Makes sense of the AI funding boom. Combs through 577 YC-backed AI startups and classifies them by sector and underlying technology.

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The AI space has boomed and how. Lately it feels like there is a new AI startup getting funded every day. The industry is evolving so quickly that I felt like I needed to find a way to make sense of what's going on. I want to answer questions like, what sector are AI startups propping up in, what technology are they selling (AI agent? Analytics? Generative?) This meant combing through 577 AI startups incubated in YC.

Personal

Hello from the other side

best read as you sing the Adele song

I'm a straight-forward person, and generally easy to talk to. I love learning new things, sometimes they're connected, sometimes they are random. It's an ADHD thing. For example, I got obsessed with dress-making, and "borrowed" a mannequin from my aunt. Assembled five dresses, did a photoshoot (yes, with a mannequin). After that, it just scared the bejesus out of everyone in the house at night.

I enjoy reading. Mostly fiction. My Goodreads is right here. Connect with me and let's watch each other's reading habits silently (if that's how you want to engage).

I recently read The Tainted Cup and told everyone who would listen about it. Since you're here: read it, it's awesome.

I also read Project Hail Mary, a wonderful book. Still putting off watching the movie though.

I try and push myself to read non-fiction. I've been reading The Mom Test because my CEO recommended it. And I read Secrets of Sand Hill Road last year (my VC mentor suggested it).

This "portfolio" is prose heavy. And you've stuck around till here. Thank you :)

Things I've made for myself

Movie Tracker

I wanted a place to log all my friends' recommendations, plus some analytics around how much TV I watch.

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Silver Nitrate & Silicon

An experience to explore how cinema and technology have influenced each other.

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System Design Quest

A Duolingo-style game for the system design concepts behind every app you use. Nine units, 54 lessons, each one grounded in a real company scenario and an everyday analogy.

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Contact

Get in touch

Open to new opportunities around Product/Business operations. Also reach out if you want to converse about how you use AI :)

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