Building culture, teams, and products along the way!
I enjoy challenging problems, setting up empowered product teams, building product culture, and moving macro metrics. I set up cross-functional product development teams in 4 different companies.
I’m currently in the world of Climate Tech. My 18 years in the software industry have been about building large-scale technically-complex B2B/Enterprise or Marketplace products. I’m a Yelp alumnus.
I'm an international public speaker and have given talks with Product School, Product Tank, MLOps World, Work on Climate, Scaletech AI, and Europe-based Product-led Festival.
I worked with some of the biggest companies in the world: Microsoft, Cloudera, and Slack as partners; and my long list of customers includes Fortune-50 Manufacturing conglomerate, United Technologies, and the world’s largest health and beauty retail group A.S. Watson.
My technical specialization is Machine Learning. It's been my passion to use ML/AI to solve business problems. My product specialization is Scaling. I’ve worked in both startups and corporations, and have brought the energy of startups to corporations and the practices and maturity of corporations to startups.
Message me if I can help you with ML or Product problems, for speaking engagements, startup advising or for mentorship requests.
I also teach an “ML for Product Managers” course so let me know if you’re interested!
How to start a Machine Learning Product Team
My Product School talk on starting ML product teams. I address what ML is (briefly, for PMs), how to hire, and how to integrate ML into your software.
So You Want to Build a Machine Learning Product?
Nicholas Kanhai interviewed me for the “What Can I Tell You” podcast. We discussed what it takes to plan for and build out a machine learning product team, model performance, and what it means to be a PM focused on building enterprise-level products. I also gave advice on how to break into product management. You can listen to the podcast here.
Webinar: How Company Culture Affects Product Success
In this Product School talk I discuss what culture is, how different types of products require different cultures, how to trace “product symptoms” back to culture root causes, and how to build/change culture.
I think culture is the missing link between product development and product success. This talk is useful for product leaders looking to understand and build the best culture for their product.