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Recent work
2026
PRODUCT BUILDINGTakehome Studio: Building a Product-Judgment Workspace, Not an Answer Generator
How a product-judgment method became a working discovery workspace that structures ambiguity without deciding the PM’s thesis, priorities, or recommendation.
AI-assisted product development
PRODUCT PRACTICEUsing AI Without Outsourcing Product Judgment
Where AI can strengthen product work—and why framing, evidence standards, trade-offs, and the final call still need human ownership.
AI-assisted product judgment
PLATFORM & SYSTEMSBuilding an Evidence Layer for Complex Automation
How fragmented automation evidence became a structured investigation system that keeps AI assistance bounded by observable system truth.
Observability & evidence architecture
2020–2025
PRODUCT LEADERSHIPYou Don't Reduce Oversight by Asking for Trust
A China payment migration inherited rational stakeholder skepticism. Making commitments, misses and recovery visible changed escalation from a discovery mechanism into an exception path.
Stakeholder trust & delivery accountability
PRODUCT LEADERSHIPThe First Sprint Wasn't for Fixing Things
What a struggling team and a growing Product organization taught me about readiness, capability, and choosing the right intervention.
Team & organizational capability
FINANCIAL INFRASTRUCTUREThe Payment Route Was Still Working. We Had to Build Its Replacement Anyway.
How a regulatory risk in China became a customer migration spanning eligibility, onboarding, operations, a local payment partner, and thirteen product and engineering teams.
Regulated payment migration
FINANCIAL INFRASTRUCTUREWhen “Verified” Isn’t One Thing
How one bank-verification requirement revealed a broader product problem: the same customer word can hide different methods, constraints, and operational meanings.
Bank verification & platform capability
2016–2020
PLATFORM & SYSTEMSWhen the System Had to Prove What Happened
A customer question about a trade outcome became a product requirement for reconstructable evidence.
Trading infrastructure & operational evidence
FINANCIAL INFRASTRUCTUREWhen Regulation Became a Data Contract
Two production reporting problems exposed the gap between passing validation and representing the right business state.
Regulatory reporting & data semantics
PLATFORM & SYSTEMSWhen 1.6 Billion Transactions Exposed an Old Assumption
Almost half of a core transaction table came from a behavior that had been running for years. Before we could remove it, we had to understand everything else that might have quietly come to depend on it.
Trading-platform scalability
2012–2015
2008–2010
PRODUCT LEADERSHIPThe Job Changes When You Stop Being the Person With the Answer
Moving from leading practitioners to leading team leaders changed the job. I still needed enough context to steer, but not every decision could keep passing through me.
Organizational leadership
PRODUCT STRATEGYThe Roadmap Started When We Stopped Listing Tools
A roadmap becomes useful when it stops cataloging what exists and starts making explicit choices about where organizational attention should concentrate.
Portfolio strategy & execution
