Meet Manan, Upadhyay, Senior Product Manager, AWS

Manan is a former engineer who now excels as a Product Manager at AWS. A significant passion of his is developing AI products that optimize user-friendly experiences. He's currently leading a team at AWS, developing a system that tailors how the AWS website, emails, and SMS communicate with its users. Outside of work, he enjoys sailing on the Hudson River in the summer and snowboarding in the winter.

In this episode, we talked about his journey, including hackathons at Deloitte, the hackathon culture at AWS, the similarities between innovation sprints and hackathons, and how hackathons have affected his leadership style and thoughts on building MVPs (Minimum Viable Products). We also discussed how participating in hackathons could improve your growth mindset, to make it easier to go from "thinking of doing it" to actually doing it. Additionally, we talked about his experiences judging hackathons!