vidya srinivasan

PRODUCT MANAGER | SPEAKER | D&I ADVOCATE | SINGER
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Hello! 
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I am a Senior Product Manager at Facebook working on Messenger and Instagram Direct. Prior to Facebook, I was at Microsoft and worked on Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint, Yammer to name a few.
 I love building products and have filed 21 patents for my work so far. 

My side hustles include speaking at tech events, singing, and leading D&I initiatives. I have given 75+ talks on a broad range of product, technical and career topics. I am a trained Indian classical singer. I also have the honor of being the General Chair of the 2019, 2020 and 2021 Grace Hopper Conference.  I love to tinker with tech and have won awards at Hackathons including the Grand Prize at Microsoft OneWeek hackathon amongst 1200+ hacks (Project Ability Eye Gaze), Tech for Good Award (Project Smart Neck Brace), Most Inspiring Project Award (Project Emotion Band).

My work has been featured on several media outlets including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Engadget, TechRepublic, Venture Beat, GeekWire, eWeek, ZDNet, Channel 9, Microsoft Story Labs, Wogrammer, Crosscut, The Women in Tech show to name a few. 
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Features, Awards & Podcasts

As featured on...

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Crosscut: On defeating imposter syndrome to become a tech innovator and mom
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​Forbes: Succeeding in the fourth trimester

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 AnitaB.org: Featured speaker and General Chair of the 2020 Grace Hopper celebration for women in computing 
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Wogrammer spotlight
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Microsoft Research: GHC open source code-a-thon to benefit humanitarian relief​
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​The Daily: ​Women’s Action Commission stresses reflection and intersectionality in STEM
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​Forbes: Defying stereotypes as a pregnant women
​in tech
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Microsoft: Designing her own destiny
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AnitaB.org: Featured Speaker and General Chair of the 2019 Grace Hopper Celebration for women in computing
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The Ability Hacks: The story of two hackathon teams embracing the transformative power of technology
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North Carolina State University: Faces of Computer Science 

As awarded by...

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Outstanding Young Alumni Award by NC State University (Inaugural batch in 2017)
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 Chosen as one of six heroes at the Microsoft Global Inclusion campaign (2019)
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reveals OneWeek hackathon winner
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Contributing for the future award at the Microsoft Ability hackathon 

As heard and seen on... 

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 SharePoint spaces launch at the SharePoint Conference North America Keynote, Las Vegas (timestamp: 45 min)
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Learn to Code with Me podcast
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The Channel 9 show
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Women in Business & Technology podcast
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 iGirl Tech show 
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Curryup Startup podcast
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The Intrazone podcast
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Guest lecturer at UW School of Informatics
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The Women in Tech Show 
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The Things She Does podcast

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