Professional Summary
Two-time founder and product leader who grew TakeShape from zero to ~$1M ARR, raised $3M in seed funding, hired the team, closed enterprise deals with Comcast, GE, Valvoline, Automattic, and Commerce, and led its shift to AI agents. Before that, founded and scaled Ronik, a design and technology studio, to $8M in contracts with clients including ESPN, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Fidelity, and built its global creative and engineering team. Starts from the customer problem worth solving and ships it with designers and engineers working as one team.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Brooklyn, NY · Remote
Founded and built the platform enterprises use to run AI agents grounded in their own data.
- Raised $3M in seed funding from well-known dev-tool founders and completed the Techstars accelerator
- Launched and grew a 0-to-1 platform to ~$1M ARR with matrixed enterprise and mid-market customers
- Defined the product vision and roadmap, and steered the product by customer needs and user research
- Hired, built, and grew a distributed engineering and design team across time zones, developing engineers into the technical voice on enterprise deals
- Led the company's shift to AI, turning the platform into one enterprises use to run agents on their own data, including a Valvoline agent that diverted half of its customer-service volume
- Shipped a purchase-order agent for Commerce (formerly BigCommerce), available to its tens of thousands of B2B customers
Brooklyn, NY · On-site
- Founded and scaled the studio to $8M in contracts and $1.5M in annual revenue across 100+ projects for clients including JFK and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation
- Hired, grew, and developed creative and engineering talent side by side, with alumni now at Anthropic, Google, Shopify, GitHub, and Slack
- Built the operating model that let designers and engineers ship as one team, with shared critique and design standards
- Scaled leadership through Creative Directors who each ran their own teams and owned the product decisions on their client work
- Partnered with senior leadership at GE, McGraw Hill, Kaplan, and UNHCR on strategy, scope, and delivery
- Incubated the studio's software platform and spun it out in 2018 as TakeShape, a venture-backed product company
EARLIER EXPERIENCE
Software Engineering · Full-time
Internships · Full-time
SELECTED CAPABILITIES
PRODUCT & BUSINESS Leadership
- Product Strategy & Roadmapping
- Pricing, Packaging & Monetization
- Product-Led & Sales-Led Growth (PLG + Enterprise)
- User Stories & Requirements Definition
- Executive & Senior-Leadership Engagement
AI PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
- AI Product Strategy & Roadmapping
- Context Engineering
- Harness Engineering
- Multi-Agent Orchestration
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Systems
- Agent interop protocols (MCP, A2A, NANDA)
- Model Evaluation & Selection (LLM Bake-Offs, Embedding & Retrieval Strategy)
- LLM and Agent Observability
- AI Interface Design
RESEARCH & METHODS
- Contextual Inquiry & Field Studies
- Experimentation & A/B Testing
- Measuring Design Impact
DESIGN LEADERSHIP
- Hands-On Product Design (Figma, FigJam)
- Prototyping (Low- to High-Fidelity)
- Enterprise Design Systems
ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP
- System Design & Scalability
- Hands-On Development, AI-Assisted (TypeScript, Node)
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Certificate in Data Science Principles
Credential of Readiness (CORe), Pass with Honors
BS, Information Science (HCI/UX focus), Magna Cum Laude