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AI Builder, Designer, 0-to-1 GTM

Mountain View, CA

Product leader with ten years at Google across PM, product marketing, and engineering, plus a decade of building and commercializing products as a founder. Five 0-to-1 products: Glow ($1M in sales, acquired), Timeless (1.5M users), and three AI products: Yeah, Atomic, and Halftime. Hands-on from user research through AI development and eval-gated releases.

Core Product Development · Product Strategy & Prioritization · Growth & Retention Loops · User & Market Research · Model Selection & Eval-Gated Releases · Agentic Development · Hardware & Platform GTM

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Experience

Still in Love

2025 — PresentPalo Alto, CA

AI Product Builder

Co-founded an AI product studio, building with ex-Googlers and Stanford OVAL. Runs agentic development across 12 models tiered by capability and risk; keeps development sandboxed from production and gates releases on shadow traffic, daily evals, and human-approved rollouts.

YeahRotten Tomatoes for YouTube reviews (running shoes as a proof of concept)

Set the quality bar with human judgment: multi-model consensus and adversarial review handle volume; verdicts are calibrated against 20 years in the category and field testing with a 100-member run club.

HalftimeCollege planning for students and families

Conducted 15 weeks of user research with Palo Alto students and parents on college-application anxiety; shaped the product around preserving students' own voices amid AI essay generation.
$4,000 saved per family: piloted with five Bay Area families for the 2026–2027 admissions cycle, displacing consultant and essay-coaching spend.

Google

2006 — 2015Mountain View, CA

Product, Product Marketing, Engineering

Head of Product · ACME Lab2014 — 2015

Co-founded an ambient-computing R&D lab at Google X with $20M of internal funding, after presenting gaze-based HCI on Google Glass to the L-Team (Page, Rubin, Pichai, Arora).

Data Engineer · Chrome2008 — 2009

Prioritized distribution deals: conducted competitive analysis against Bing across user intent, lifecycle segments, churn, and traffic acquisition cost, steering Chrome's OEM deals and user acquisition strategy.