Santosh Dodamani

About Santosh Dodamani

I build developer platforms that scale.Platform and Developer Experience product leader with 12+ years building and scaling developer platforms, APIs, SDKs, and internal/external ecosystems at Google-scale and high-growth SaaS companies. Proven record of owning multi-product platform portfolios, improving developer onboarding, integration velocity, reliability, and productivity for developers, while delivering $50M+ in measurable business impact through revenue growth, cost efficiency, and risk reduction.Experienced in defining end-to-end DevEx strategy across discovery, onboarding, integration, tooling, analytics, and AI-assisted workflows. Known for balancing developer experience, platform reliability, extensibility, security, and cost in highly matrixed environments. Builder of high-performing product organizations, with hands-on experience hiring, mentoring, and scaling technical PM teams. Trusted partner to senior engineering and executive leadership on platform investment strategy, roadmap prioritization, and long-term architectural tradeoffs.

Experience

1. Director of Product Management

   Harness

   Mar 2025 — Present · Mountain View, CA, US

   Owned and launched SEI 2.0, a next-generation developer insights platform, directly supporting retention and expansion of $5M ARR with a path to 2× growth by modernizing platform architecture, APIs, and analytics capabilities.•Defined and executed a developer onboarding and migration strategy, driving 35% adoption of the existing customer base at GA through structured beta programs, phased rollout, and feedback-driven prioritization.•Led platform-level API strategy, including RESTful export APIs and developer data import/export, enabling extensibility and integration with external systems.•Established developer productivity metrics across AI coding assistants (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code), quantifying impact on PR velocity, cycle time, time-to-first-review, and approval latency, and using insights to inform roadmap investments.•Drove AI-assisted developer workflows, including agentic summaries and insights, improving signal quality and reducing cognitive load for engineering leaders and developers.•Defined DORA-based measurement frameworks adaptable across heterogeneous SDLC toolchains, enabling consistent platform-level reporting of engineering efficiency and reliability.

Education

• National Institute of Technology Karnataka

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

Skills

• C++
• Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
• Software Engineering
• Agile Project Management
• Product Management
• Team Leadership
• Sdlc
• Medical Compliance
• Solution Architecture
• Software Design
• System Architecture
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Soa
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Pacs
• Integration
• Uml
• Healthcare Technology
• Product Development
• Data Migration
• Wcf
• Design Patterns
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Software Development
• Dicom
• Scrum
• Software Project Management
• Unix
• Leadership
• Hl7
• Clearcase
• Project Management
• Web Services
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Healthcare Consulting
• Ooad