AI PRODUCT MANAGER · CLEARA · NOV 2025 – PRESENT
The AI feature I removed
A 0→1 AI product built solo, end to end — where I found the model was making the core loop worse, and replaced it with deterministic logic.
Read case study →Engineer-turned-PM
who builds.
Fifteen years in tech: seven as a backend engineer, six in education and career outcomes, and the last year and a half in product. Built an AI product solo, end to end. Scaled a technical coaching team from 20 to 40+. Built backend systems serving 110M page views a week.
15 yearsIn tech
1,000+Learners taught and supported
300+Job placements contributed to
110MWeekly page views served
40+Coaching team, grown from 20+
Selected work
PRODUCT MANAGER · APPLYPASS (PART OF OUTCO) · AUG 2023 – JAN 2024
Holding the delivery cadence
Owned roadmap and release planning for an auto-apply platform for software engineers, working with 3 engineers and 2 product marketers.
Read case study →TECH COACH MANAGER · OUTCO · DEC 2021 – JUL 2023
The expansion I argued against
Grew a technical coaching team from 20+ to 40+ supporting 1,000+ learners — and pushed back when the pressure was to grow faster than quality could hold.
Read case study →PLATFORM ENGINEER, API BACKEND · REFINERY29 · JAN 2015 – AUG 2016
Ten seconds
Backend systems behind a 110M-page-view-a-week publication, and a 70% page load improvement that came from indexing and query work.
Read case study →The through-line
I have been a backend engineer, an instructor, a coaching manager, and a product manager. The titles look unrelated. They are not.
Every one of those roles owned an outcome metric and answered for it. At Refinery29 it was page load and video views. At Outco it was job placement rate — which moved on coaching consistency, not content volume. At ApplyPass it was delivery. At Cleara it is whether a person can tell they are improving.
Product management is the first job I have had where owning the metric is the title. It is not the first one where I did it.