Software Engineering Lead → Solutions Architect → Product Manager

I turn customer signal into product direction and working prototypes.

Software engineer to engineering lead, then a decade-plus as a solutions architect shaping roadmaps from the field. Now I want to own them as a Product Manager. I find customer problems and product gaps worth solving, prototype with AI and test directly with customers, then bring the evidence to roadmap decisions.

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My Journey

Software Engineering Lead

1996 – 2011

Grew from software engineer to engineering lead at Alcatel-Lucent/Nokia, shipping data center switching software that became a top revenue driver.

Customer to Product

2011 – 2023

Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer and Product Ambassador at ALE, Oracle Cloud and AWS. Turned field signal into PRDs and roadmap interlocks with PMs.

Prototyping with AI

2023 – Now

At Datadog, I turn customer insight into working prototypes. The Maturity Assessment, built with Claude, is live and moving toward adoption.

Own the Roadmap

Next Chapter

15 years of engineering, 12 as the cross-functional link from customers to sales, product and engineering, hands-on AI prototyping, a Kellogg PM cert.
Next: owning a product end to end.