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Experience.

Fifteen years directing product organizations, P&L roadmaps, pricing models, and engineering architecture across enterprise SaaS, spatial systems, and open-source infrastructure.

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Spctre (CIWRL Technologies LLC) (opens in new tab)

Founder & Maintainer · Open source shipped, commercial launch in 2026

Open source live · Commercial 2026

Built and shipped an Apache-2.0 control plane that decides, at runtime, which tool calls an AI agent is actually allowed to make — and leaves an audit trail when it says no. Open source is live; the commercial product launches in 2026.

What I owned and decided:
  • Shared Rust policy kernel ensuring identical rule enforcement across Node, Go, and WASM
  • Tamper-evident audit logs (SHA-256 hash chains) and human approval workflows for high-risk actions
  • Enterprise security integrations: SIEM forwarding (Splunk, Sentinel), SCIM, and Postgres RLS
  • Published @spctre/cli, @spctre/sdk, @spctre/mcp-server, and @spctre/policy-schema
  • Open source shipped and maintained in public; commercial launch scheduled for 2026
Outcome:One Rust policy kernel, reused across a Go worker, a Next.js control plane, and WASM, so the same policy means the same thing everywhere it runs. Published as 4 npm and 3 PyPI packages, compatible with MCP and Microsoft AGT.
2026-Present

CliniSift

Strategic Advisor (part-time)

Part-time advisory · Healthcare AI

A part-time advisory role with the executive team of a healthcare AI automation company, covering strategy, go-to-market, and how the company scales its operations. Helped land 5 specialty clinic letters of intent.

What I owned and decided:
  • Advise executive team on corporate strategy, GTM priorities, and operating cadence
  • Designed healthcare AI patient triage workflows achieving 50%+ pilot engagement
  • Secured 5 specialty clinic letters of intent (LOIs) for pilot deployments
  • Support product narrative and commercial packaging for pre-seed positioning
Outcome:Designed the commercial packaging and the AI patient triage workflow. More than half of patients engaged with it in the live pilot.
2026-Present

Jungle Scout (opens in new tab)

VP of Product Management

PE ($110M+) · Summit Partners

Directed product, pricing, and AI strategy for a $50M+ ARR enterprise platform serving Amazon sellers and enterprise brands through forecasting, pricing, and supply-chain intelligence.

Published Cobalt customer outcomes (opens in new tab)

What I owned and decided:
  • Owned P&L roadmap for $50M+ annual revenue enterprise SaaS and DaaS portfolio
  • Grew the global product organization to 25+ with career frameworks enabling 15+ internal promotions
  • Built PM and UX career frameworks that clarified expectations from early-career to principal scope, and codified the operating model connecting discovery, delivery, and release governance.
  • Delivered quarterly product and commercial reporting to the Jungle Scout Board of Directors
  • Led post-acquisition customer migration of Downstream Impact into Cobalt, migrating 15,000+ ad accounts in 6 months
  • Launched enterprise data warehousing and modular pricing APIs driving 30% YoY revenue growth and +40% attach rates
  • Cut multi-million-dollar AWS and data ingest spend by 75%+ via capital reallocation without reducing platform coverage
  • Built retail media products across Amazon and Walmart DSP, working directly with Amazon Ads and Selling Partner teams
  • Depth in Amazon Marketing Cloud clean-room analytics and Amazon Sponsored TV, with agencies including WPP on the platform
Outcome:Held final decision authority for portfolio roadmaps, pricing and packaging direction, and ML model release criteria under Summit Partners growth-equity backing ($110M PE investment).
2019-2025
Acquired by MapsPeople

Shaped indoor location intelligence products for a $50M-backed enterprise retail platform by unifying physical and digital data systems.

What I owned and decided:
  • Directed indoor wayfinding engines with Apache Solr spatial indexing
  • Delivered high-performance location intelligence SDKs for Android and iOS
  • Secured $3M in new enterprise contracts for Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store (BOPIS) routing
  • Converted 8 of 8 retail pilot engagements into multi-year enterprise SaaS contracts
  • Customer data platform work (including LiveRamp) for Target and Lowe's, using BLE-driven targeting to power in-store personalization and DOOH signage
Outcome:Built spatial intelligence capabilities and secured $3M in new BOPIS routing contracts that helped position the business for acquisition by MapsPeople.
2016-2018

LineageOS (opens in new tab)

Co-Founder (volunteer) → Full-Time Operational Lead

Open-source platform continuity

Co-founded the community-maintained successor to CyanogenMod and later led platform operations full-time.

What I owned and decided:
  • Ran platform releases, monthly security patches, and CVE fixes across a global maintainer community
  • Sustained 3.0M+ active installs across 109 supported device models
  • Kernel and platform optimization under high concurrency
  • Owned open-source licensing compliance across a large multi-vendor codebase, tracking obligations for every component shipped
  • Held privacy as a product pillar — user control over data collection and permissions — as European privacy rules tightened
Outcome:Reached 1,000,000+ users within three months of launch and sustained 3.0M+ active installs across 109 supported device models.
2016-2019

CyanogenMod / Cyanogen (opens in new tab)

Community Contributor → Senior Program Manager & Open-Source Community Lead

Cyanogen · $122M VC across 4 rounds

Worked at the systems level on open-source Android infrastructure, then led program and community operations inside the venture-backed company built around it.

What I owned and decided:
  • Low-level AOSP customization, kernel optimization, and distributed build automation
  • Coordinated global open-source maintainers across 100+ hardware architectures
  • Provided investor-facing product narrative, metrics, and diligence across four venture rounds totaling $122M
  • Ran open-source licensing compliance across AOSP and vendor code, and adherence to EU privacy provisions as the regulatory environment tightened
Outcome:Contributed to a mobile platform that grew to 10M+ installs across 100+ board architectures, inside a company that raised $122M before its later public-market life as CYN.
2009-2016

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