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// summary

I'm a product leader who turns complex technical systems into products people actually use. I build AI, SaaS, and data products from 0→1 and grow them at scale, across frontier AI, consumer platforms, and enterprise software.

Over the past 5+ years I've worked across the AI value chain. At Trufan and Surf I built the big-data and NLP platforms behind early audience-intelligence products. At Tempo (YC '23) I shipped design-to-code AI tooling that cut development cycles by 40%. Now, at Sapien, I'm building the trust layer for AI agents and models and shaping how people evaluate and align the next generation of AI systems.

I work hands-on across product, design, and go-to-market. I give clients, engineers, and designers the clarity and momentum to ship fast, from the first discovery call to launch, whether the work lives in AI, eCommerce, or enterprise SaaS.

“I don't just ship products. I build momentum. My philosophy is simple: lead with clarity, deliver with intent, and always make it easier for great teams to do their best work.”

// work_experience

Senior Product Manager

Sapien · Full-time

Oct 2025 – Present
Toronto, CA

Building the trust layer for AI agents and models, enterprise-grade human evaluation and training data infrastructure.

  • Led product for Sapien's AI evaluation platform, building infrastructure that enables human feedback and quality assurance for frontier model development.
  • Scaled expert evaluation operations through annotation and RLHF tooling used by thousands of contributors to assess safety, reasoning quality, and output accuracy.
  • Defined product requirements at the intersection of ML research and engineering, operationalizing model alignment objectives into measurable evaluation workflows.
  • Influenced product positioning and commercialization efforts around AI trust and safety, strengthening Sapien's role in the emerging responsible AI stack.
  • Executed 120+ discovery and go-to-market interviews to validate market demand, identify ICPs, and inform strategic roadmap decisions.
  • Shipped a gamified onboarding experience that improved evaluator activation and accelerated progression through the contribution funnel.

AI Product Manager

Tempo (YC '23) · Contract

Dec 2024 – Oct 2025
Toronto, CA

Shipped design-to-code AI tooling, turning Figma mocks into production-ready applications using LLM-driven workflows.

  • Managed 20+ concurrent client projects from planning to go-to-market, shipping 1–3 features weekly through AI-driven workflows, agile sprints, and roadmap ownership.
  • Launched 6 custom web apps from scratch, leveraging AI code generation and rapid prototyping to compress delivery timelines by 40%.
  • Integrated eCommerce tools (Stripe, BigCommerce, Odoo) and headless CMS systems (Sanity) to build scalable, modular platforms via AI-assisted pipelines.
  • Led 8 developers and 6 designers across fast-paced product cycles, embedding AI copilots into daily workflows to accelerate design-to-code handoff.
  • Built an AI-powered feature tracker to centralize client feedback, increase roadmap visibility, and streamline delivery tracking.

Senior Product Manager

Surf · Acquired by Datacy · Full-time

Jan 2023 – Dec 2024
Toronto, CA

Scaled a big-data and NLP-powered SaaS platform to 700K+ users, early-stage AI servicing through behavioral analytics and natural language processing.

  • Led two agile teams across three SaaS products (B2C/B2B/B2M), supporting 700K+ users with NLP-driven analytics and data intelligence features.
  • Managed high-profile client portfolio, running data-driven marketing and sweepstakes campaigns for Amazon, EA, Logitech, and Riot Games (average deal ~$1.5M).
  • Increased active users by 35% through behavioral analytics and predictive modeling-powered campaigns.
  • Owned product roadmaps across 34 sprints, shipping 70+ features with 65–80% sprint predictability.

Product Manager

Trufan · Acquired by Surf · Full-time

Sep 2020 – Dec 2022
Toronto, CA

Built big-data NLP platforms from the ground up, aggregating social and web data at scale to power audience intelligence and early AI-driven insights.

  • Led tech stack migration from Elixir/Rails to Node.js; scoped feature sets, wrote the dev roadmap, and launched new release cycles.
  • Led 6-person team to build and launch two B2C SaaS platforms: Trufan Analytics (NLP-powered Instagram/Twitter/web data processing) and a Giveaways Platform, serving 500K+ users.
  • Launched a web dashboard aggregating live data from 120K+ Google Extension users, building SQL-based insights and NLP-driven audience intelligence dashboards.
  • Built data marketplace integrations (Snowflake, Liveramp, Eagle Alpha) for downstream NLP analytics, audience segmentation, and activation.

// projects

// core_skills

Product ManagementAI/ML Product StrategyLLM & AI Agent WorkflowsProduct Design & UXRapid PrototypingGo-to-Market (GTM) StrategyMarket & Customer DiscoveryRoadmap & PrioritizationAgile (Scrum & Kanban)Cross-Functional Team Leadership

// tools

JiraFigmaOpenAIClaudeLangChainLangGraphn8nSnowflakeLiveRampSQLNode.jsElixirRuby on RailsNext.jsPhotoshopIllustratorExcel

// languages

English80%
French65%
Urdu80%

// education

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Bachelor's Degree, Business

// interests

VolunteeringYouth MentoringAITravelDigital Nomad LifestyleCasual GamingPower Lifting