Career

A career built at the intersection of models, markets and people.

Every role below: what I owned, what we built, and the outcome — expand any to see the details.

ProblemSystem / productUserBusiness impact
01Jun — Aug 2026Cisco

Cisco

Product Marketing MBA Intern

Built a translation-validation proof of concept, shaped a six-month roadmap with broad stakeholder input, and developed launch messaging for AI sales enablement.

15%Token reduction
50Stakeholders
6 mo.Roadmap
  • Built a translation-validation proof of concept for AI sales enablement.
  • Shaped a six-month roadmap grounded in input from 50 stakeholders.
  • Developed launch messaging that made the AI capability legible to a sales audience.
02Feb — Aug 2025Dream11

Dream11

Product Manager, ML Applications

Owned two ML-backed product bets: a new in-app advertising surface and an internal platform that made model workflows easier for operators to use.

$8MRevenue · first 60 days
$20MRevenue · 1-year mark
5%Retention lift
  • Launched in-app advertising as a new monetization line, aligning product, data science, engineering and commercial teams.
  • Built a separate ML application platform used by 100+ daily users and delivering approximately $500K in annual savings.
  • Translated model behavior into operator-facing workflows, adoption metrics and a roadmap teams could execute.
03Aug 2024 — Jan 2025Samagra

Samagra

Product & GTM

Used buyer research and go-to-market strategy to shape adoption for an LLM platform serving government and enterprise contexts.

$700KNew ARR
B2BBuyer research
LLMPlatform GTM
  • Led buyer and market research to clarify high-value use cases and decision criteria.
  • Developed go-to-market direction that contributed to $700K in new ARR.
  • Bridged technical platform capabilities with the language, proof points and workflows buyers needed.
04Jul 2021 — Jul 2024Media.net

Media.net

2 roles

Associate Product Manager

Jul 2023 — Jul 2024

Turned experimentation and traffic intelligence into repeatable product systems for advertising teams.

$35MTraffic optimizer revenue
70%Cost reduction
30Experiments · 6 months
  • Shipped a B2B traffic optimizer that generated $35M in revenue while reducing costs by 70%.
  • Launched an experimentation platform with role-based access controls, supporting 30 experiments in six months.
  • Supported APAC go-to-market with customer and market insight grounded in product performance.

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2021 — Jul 2023

Built the ML and data foundation that later informed how I lead products.

$80MRevenue · 12 months
5TB/dayHDFS pipelines
MLBid prediction
  • Developed a bid-prediction model powering an advertising pricing optimizer that generated $80M over 12 months.
  • Built and operated large-scale data pipelines processing terabytes per day in HDFS.
  • Worked close to the model, infrastructure and business logic—experience I now use to set realistic product direction.
05Jun 2019 — Jul 2021Samsung Research

Samsung Research

ML Engineer

Applied computer vision and color science to flagship mobile experiences at global scale.

25M+Flagship devices
$1BDevice-line sales · contributed
CVNight Mode
  • Contributed to Night Mode work on a device line associated with $1B in sales.
  • Developed color-tuning capabilities shipped across 25M+ flagship devices.
  • Learned to balance research quality, hardware constraints and the expectations of a mass-market product.

Capabilities

What I'm known for.

01

0→1 Product Building

Turning ambiguous opportunities into products, launches, and measurable business outcomes.

02

AI / ML Productization

Translating technically complex systems into usable products, workflows, and decisions.

03

Monetization & Growth

Connecting product decisions to adoption, experimentation, revenue, and business impact.

04

Cross-functional Execution

Aligning engineering, data, business, and stakeholder teams around clear outcomes.

Operating model

How I operate.

  1. 01

    Understand the system

    Build enough technical and customer context to understand what's actually happening.

  2. 02

    Find the constraint

    Identify the problem that matters most rather than optimizing everything at once.

  3. 03

    Align the team

    Make the problem, trade-offs, and desired outcome clear across functions.

  4. 04

    Ship

    Move from analysis to a concrete product decision and get it into users' hands.

  5. 05

    Measure

    Evaluate what changed, learn from the result, and sharpen the next decision.

One more, structured the same way: a Cisco internship the summer before McCombs.

See the internship