Work
  • Jan 2019 - Jan 2026
    AWS
    Product Manager

    PM on Spaces in Amazon Quick Suite from concept to launch. Spaces enabled any business user to ground LLM chats with any their docs or team business intelligence data. Led product for quality inspection solutions for AWS edge machine learning. Increased developer adoption of machine learning tools through fun, quirky products like DeepComposer (generative AI keyboard) and DeepLens (computer vision camera).

    News:

    AWS Blog - Amazon QuickSuite launch

    Quality Inspection on AWS Panorama

    AWS Panorama SDK

    AWS DeepComposer launch

    AWS DeepLens

  • May 2016 - Jan 2019
    Owl Labs
    Senior Software Engineer

    Founding engineer responsible for all things web and mobile for internet-connected 360 degrees camera. Built 2 native mobile apps and web infrastructure for firmware updates, mobile control, and analytics.

    News:

    Owl Labs Series A and launch

  • Mar 2014 - Mar 2016
    3D Robotics
    Product Manager

    PM for mobile apps (iOS and Android) and autonomous behaviors for flagship drone 3DR Solo from concept to post launch. Unified various drone control libraries into a drone SDK (DroneKit) for mobile, embedded and web for developers using Ardupilot of Pixhawk. Helped pivot consumer drone business to enterprise offerings with ESRI (mapping) partnership, who ended up acquiring 3DR.

    News:

    3D Robotics’ New Solo Drone Promises To Make Aerial Videography Easy

    3DR and Esri

  • Aug 2011 - Apr 2014
    Romotive
    Founder

    Made cute robot project to teach kids fundamentals of programming. Robot used smart phone as its brains, which enabled easily swappable behaviors such as telepresence and pet. Incubated company through TechStars Seattle 2011. Launched Kickstarter. Raised seed money. Launched second Kickstarter. Raised Series A money. Got product placement in Apple stores. Failed to sell enough robots for consumer product. Company pivoted to delivery drones.

    News:

    Robot debut

    Second robot debut and Series A news