Kruthika Sonwalkar

About

I'm obsessed with products — all of it. How they're designed, how they're built, how they're positioned, and why some find their people and others never do. I've never wanted to pick just one side of that.

In early 2025 I moved from Bangalore to Silicon Valley to do my MS in Engineering Management at SJSU, to be in the room with the brightest minds working on AI. That's still the reason I'm here.

How I got here

I studied computer science in Bangalore and started my career at Omnify in 2020, running product marketing across 23 industry verticals. I learned GTM by doing all of it — positioning, messaging, launch usually at the same time.

At LinkedIn, on Talent & Learning Solutions, I ran 200+ discovery interviews across Fortune 500 accounts to find out where enterprise customers were stalling before they ever reached first value. The answer was always onboarding, not the product. Fixing it cut drop-off by 48%, influenced $1.2M in new ARR, and recovered $500K in churn.

What I believe

"You think you have time"

I believe in compounding, in work, in skill, in relationships. Small things done relentlessly. Stoicism is the philosophy I keep coming back to: control the inputs, let go of the rest.

Outside work

Fashion tech and science-based skincare are my rabbit holes. I watch a lot of sport, I cook, and I'm slowly working through every bakery and café in the Bay, recommendations welcome ❤️ 

A piece of my life ⤵️

Sitting in a hallway painted with the words focus on what matters
Standing on the lawn at Salesforce Park, San Francisco
Raising a glass with a friend on a sunny patio
Standing under palm trees in Catalina
Black and white portrait against a cloudy sky
Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, from the overlook
Lets be kynder humans painted on a concrete path
Sunset over a path lined with trees