Santhosh Adari

About Santhosh Adari

I\'ve spent 12 years at the intersection of product, platform, and partnerships — most recently at Amazon Alexa, where I worked directly with Apple, Deezer, and Suno to bring AI-powered music experiences to millions of users worldwide.I drove 4M+ new customers through a single partner integration. I changed Apple\'s token revocation policy. I compressed a 2-year roadmap into 8 months across 11 markets.What drives me is the messy, ambiguous work that sits between a bold vision and actual shipping — navigating partner negotiations, cross-org alignment, and the kind of technical trade-offs that don\'t have clean answers.Right now I\'m building Synapse.ai, an agentic commerce protocol on Anthropic\'s MCP. It\'s early, and I\'m learning a lot.I\'m looking for senior roles in product, partnerships, or technical program management where AI isn\'t a feature — it\'s the foundation.

Experience

1. Senior Technical Program Manager Partner Product

   Amazon

   Jul 2022 — Present · US

   Over 4 years at Amazon Alexa, I operated at the intersection of AI product strategy, global partner ecosystems, and large-scale program delivery — consistently at VP-goal scope. I led the zero-to-one launch of Alexa+ across 11 markets, built AI experience quality frameworks now serving millions of users, and owned end-to-end relationships with Apple, Deezer, Suno, and BBC — driving 12% YoY MAU growth and 4M+ new Apple Music customers. I changed Apple\'s token policy. I compressed 2-year roadmaps into 8-month launches. I aligned 40+ engineers across 5 organizations to ship what others said couldn\'t ship on time. Led cross-org alignment across 6 engineering organizations — compressed a 2-year Alexa+ rollout to 8 months across 11 markets by sequencing trade-offs across multimodal and voice-first surfaces. Built the AI experience validation framework — ran a user/locale A/B program, achieved 95% satisfaction scores, and delivered findings that greenlit the GA launch across all markets. Accelerated Apple Music expansion by 16 months — compressed a 2-year sequential rollout into an 8-month grouped launch across 27 markets, securing VP-level prioritization with a business case projecting 23M monthly listening hours. Designed a first-of-kind agentic UX pattern for Suno\'s AI music generation — delivered AI-powered music creation to 50K+ Early Access users. Negotiated directly with Apple to extend token expiration from 6 weeks to 6 months — reduced account revocation by 29% for Apple Music and 27% for Podcasts, standardized across all Tier 1 partners. Implemented NLQ guardrails for Suno\'s AI music generation — embedded privacy and copyright protection directly into the natural language query layer, ensuring responsible AI deployment at the partner integration level.

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering

• University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Education

  Effective Business Communication

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  Master's degree, Computer Science

Skills

• Sql
• Software Engineering
• Unix
• Javascript
• Ios Development
• Spring
• Json
• Css
• Integration
• Web Development
• Swift
• Jsp
• Agile Methodologies
• Spring Framework
• Oracle
• Pl/Sql
• Object Oriented Design
• Ibatis
• Eclipse
• Java
• Html
• Jsf
• Android Development
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Soa
• Jquery
• Spring Webflow
• Web Applications
• Databases
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Ldap Administration
• Jdbc
• Jboss Application Server
• Spring Security
• Xml
• Database Design
• Rest
• Web Services
• Soap
• Software Development