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// summary

I'm an AI Product Manager who turns complex ideas into functional digital products at the intersection of artificial intelligence and user experience.

With over 5 years of experience, I've traced the AI value chain from the ground up — building big-data and NLP platforms at Trufan and Surf that powered early AI-driven audience intelligence, shipping design-to-code AI tooling at Tempo that compressed development cycles by 40%, and now building the trust layer for AI agents and models at Sapien — defining how humans evaluate and align the next generation of AI systems.

I connect clients, engineers, and designers by bringing clarity, structure, and momentum to fast-paced builds across AI, eCommerce, and 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

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.

  • Leading product strategy for Sapien's AI data quality platform, defining the roadmap for human-in-the-loop evaluation systems that power leading foundation model companies.
  • Driving the development of scalable annotation and RLHF pipelines, shipping tooling that enables thousands of expert evaluators to assess AI model outputs across safety, accuracy, and reasoning.
  • Partnering with ML engineering and research teams to translate complex model alignment requirements into actionable product specifications and feedback loops.
  • Shaping go-to-market positioning around AI trust and safety, establishing Sapien as a critical infrastructure layer in the responsible AI ecosystem.

AI Product Manager

Tempo (YC '23) · Agent+ · 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, 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 — all orchestrated through AI-assisted development 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.
  • Led the B2C Tempo Kanban initiative, implementing AI-assisted project management systems that improved team velocity and collaboration.

Senior Product Manager

Surf · Acquired by Datacy · Full-time

Jan 2023 — Jul 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 data-driven sweepstake campaigns powered by behavioral analytics and predictive modeling.
  • Owned product roadmaps across 34 sprints, shipping 70+ features with 65–80% sprint predictability.
  • Built scalable end-to-end data flows, integrating inventory management tools, OCR validation, purchase tracking, and fulfillment accuracy.
  • Led tech stack migration from Elixir/Rails to Node.js; scoped feature sets, wrote the dev roadmap, and launched new release cycles.

Product Manager

Trufan · Acquired by Surf · Full-time

May 2021 — 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 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.
  • Drove 20K+ user engagement by integrating the Google Extension with the Giveaways Platform, streamlining sweepstake entry and activation.
  • Directed two major SaaS launches, managing OKRs and cross-functional dependencies end to end.
  • Built data marketplace integrations (Snowflake, Liveramp, Eagle Alpha) for downstream NLP analytics, audience segmentation, and activation.

// projects

// core_skills

Product & Delivery ManagementAgile Methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)AI/ML Product StrategyClient Relationship Management (Enterprise/C-Suite)Roadmap & Milestone PlanningPlatform Migration & ReplatformingCross-Functional Team LeadershipNLP & Data Pipeline ArchitectureIntegration Management (ERP, OMS, CMS)QA Coordination & Defect Triage

// tools

JiraFigmaOpenAISlackLooker StudioSanity CMSStripeBigCommercePhotoshopIllustratorMidjourneyExcelTrelloWooCommerce

// languages

English100%
French65%
Urdu55%

// education

London School of Economics and Political Science

Online Part-time BSc in Business and Management — 2025

// interests

VolunteeringYouth MentoringAITravelDigital Nomad LifestyleCasual GamingPower Lifting