Developer Experience as Product · NYC
I make complex platforms land with developers, without losing the business case.
20+years across DevRel, AI/ML startups, and product leadership.
$10MKlout Data Platform revenue, with two-way data partnerships at Twitter, Salesforce & Epsilon.
12×Tagboard ARR — $600K → $7.2M as CPO, churn from 65% to 8%.
350AWS startup founders directly supported or influenced via programs, content, and POCs.
A product executive who never stopped shipping. I've carried the number in board meetings and the pager in production, and I don't think those are different jobs.
Both halves
I've run the org and written the code. Usually in the same quarter.
I'm a product executive who codes. Two tracks, run in parallel rather than alternated: developer ecosystems, and turning AI/ML capability into products people ship. What connects them is that I've been accountable on both ends — the developer hitting the API, and the buyer justifying the spend.
At AWS I supported 25+ AI/ML startups directly on developer-first positioning, evaluation frameworks, and getting LoRA fine-tunes into production. Before that I ran the Tagboard turnaround as CPO — $600K → $7.2M ARR, churn 65 → 8 — across teams of 10–20 in product, engineering, and data science. And I scaled the Klout Data Platform to $10M on two-way partnerships with Twitter, Salesforce, and Epsilon.
I still ship my own: a fine-tuned MIDI orchestrator, a location-aware AI history app, an MCP server for Cubase, a mortgage calculator that models SBLOCs. Not demos. Things with users.
Developer ExperienceAPI & Platform StrategyAI/ML Productization
GenAI & SLM PlaybooksLoRA Fine-TuningPython · Swift · TypeScriptPyTorch · Lightning · RayAWS Bedrock & SageMakerProduct-Led GrowthDeveloper EvangelismMCP / Agentic Workflows
Selected work · 2011 — 2026
Shipped. Not prototyped.
Three live sites you can visit, two ongoing personal AI builds, and the platform turnarounds I'm proudest of.
01MTPLX DashboardOpen sourceA zero-dependency realtime dashboard and live activity log for local LLM inference on Apple Silicon. A small TypeScript server polls MTPLX's /metrics endpoint and streams updates over SSE — surfacing the speculative-decoding story: tokens per verify pass, per-depth acceptance, throughput, and cache health.TypeScript · Observability · LLM2026github.com ↗02StocksteadLiveA mortgage calculator built for high net worth individuals — models SBLOCs, tax-loss harvesting, and portfolio-backed lending. Scenarios no standard calculator handles.Node.js · TypeScript · Supabase2026stockstead.com ↗03TimeblindLiveA calmer and connected way to budget your hours when ADHD makes the clock invisible. Visual time blocking, friction-light capture, gentle nudges instead of guilt-trips.TypeScript · React · Time-blocking2026timeblind.today ↗04ForbearanceLiveA word game that teaches you to do without.Web · Side project2026forbearance.fun ↗05FamloreBuildingA social game layer on top of your AI client. Quests, rooms, and curiosity tracking, built for the things you can't stop thinking about.AI companion · Game · TypeScript2026famlore.app ↗
06HistoricBuildingFoursquare for history — walk up to any landmark, get an AI-narrated podcast on the spot. Fine-tuned Gemma 3 edge models, Swift iOS w/ AR overlays, broadcast-quality TTS pipeline.Python · Swift · Gemma 32025
07Ravel AI — expressive MIDI generationBuildingAn AI-first DAW for professional composer workflows. Trained a custom ML model + tokenizer that generates expressive MIDI — dynamics, articulations, orchestration, and phrasing that sound human.PyTorch · Swift · Ray2025github.com ↗08Tagboard — turnaround storyCase studyJoined as VP Platform during a near-flatline. Alternated between CPO, COO, and CTO to ship 7 revenue-driving products on a unified platform, shifted from freemium to combined sales/PLG, grew product team 1→4 and engineering 4→16. ARR $600K → $7.2M; churn 65% → 8%.CPO · Platform · PLG2016 — 2024
09Klout PlatformCase studyBuilt developer ecosystem from zero. API platform reached 7-figure ARR and 60% of company revenue in two years. Latency cut from hundreds of ms to ~12ms. Exit to Lithium.API · DevRel · NLP2011 — 2016
Where I've operated
Fifteen years of platform & product P&L.
2024 — 2026
AI/ML Startups Product Specialist
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Authored GenAI/SLM playbooks for LoRA fine-tuning and evaluation frameworks used by founders and field teams to accelerate POC-to-production.
- Directly supported 25 startups seed → Series B; influenced 350 via events, programs, and content.
- Drove 15 portfolio activations > $250K ARR within 6 months through demos and developer-first positioning.
- Influenced $1.2M+ in net-new cloud consumption on Bedrock & SageMaker.
2016 — 2024
Chief Product Officer
Tagboard
- Led turnaround as CPO/COO. ARR $600K → $7.2M; churn 65% → 8%.
- Launched 7 revenue-driving products on a unified platform; shifted freemium → combined sales + PLG motion.
- Grew product team 1 → 4 and engineering 4 → 16 within 12 months.
- Owned third-party API platform & ecosystem integrations across Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snap, Reddit.
2018 — 2019
Product Consultant
Canvs AI
- Built the Product + Data Science operating system needed to scale; mentored org from 1 → 3 PMs.
- Restructured emotion + topic models from ~70% to ~85% precision/recall.
- Improved CS efficiency 120% with human-in-the-loop labeling.
2014 — 2016
VP & GM, Klout & Consumer Data
Lithium Technologies
- Brought community personalization + priority routing to market in 6 months — tied to $50M+ influenced pipeline.
- Integrated Klout's influence + consumer data into Lithium's platform; managed a 10-person cross-functional team reporting to CEO.
- Scaled Klout Data Platform to $10M revenue w/ partnerships at Twitter, Salesforce, Epsilon.
2011 — 2014
Developer Evangelist → Director, Platform Product
Klout (exited to Lithium)
- Productized API platform → 7-figure ARR, 60% of company revenue in two years.
- Lifted freemium → enterprise developer conversion +280% y/y.
- Shipped Topical Influence Scoring (NLP), Identity Resolution, Bulk Enrichment, SDKs. API latency hundreds of ms → ~12ms.
- Spoke at 20+ events globally (APIDays, API Strategy & Practice, Business of APIs).
Resume · at a glance
The receipts.
A condensed tour of the work and the outcomes. Full PDF mirrors this — no surprises.
Outcomes
- ARR grown $600K → $7.2M (Tagboard)
- Churn 65% → 8% (Tagboard)
- $10M Klout Data Platform
- $1.2M net-new cloud consumption
- +280% y/y dev conversion (Klout)
- API latency 100s ms → ~12ms
Craft
- GenAI/SLM playbooks (LoRA, eval)
- API versioning & deprecation policy
- Topical Influence Scoring (NLP)
- Data-Driven Graphics platform
- Human-in-the-loop labeling program
Range
- Founding-team builder (Klout, Tagboard turnaround)
- Comfortable in code
- Stanford ML Specialization
- Operator + evangelist
- Reports up; hires; mentors
Writing
Written from the operator's chair.
Speaking & Publications
On stage about APIs, ecosystems, and AI.
2026
APIDays NYC
How AI Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Scrape
2024
EU Science Commission
Unfolding opportunities from APIs in Europe — quoted publication
2014
APIDays
Paris · API platform strategy
2014
API Strategy & Practice
Chicago · Monetizing platform data
2013
The Business of APIs
NYC · Identity resolution at scale
2013
AngelHack
SF · Developer onboarding workshops
2012
ReCommerce Day
Influence-driven distribution
What I'm looking for