Summary
Product Director with 12+ years building tech products, 20+ shipped, from simple to enterprise-grade. I lead a team of 20 product managers and designers and work with ~30 engineers. I set company-wide product strategy with the leadership team and own product architecture on the hardest features. Experienced from zero to one and one to ten.
Strengths
Product leadership
A 20-person product management and design team with high retention.
Product strategy
Company-wide strategy with leadership: product, business, go-to-market.
Craftsmanship
Product architect and decision maker for complex features.
Entrepreneurship
20+ products built, alongside my day job.
Experience
Product Director · Holistics Software
Jul 2017 – Present- Lead 20 PMs and designers (high retention); work with ~30 engineers
- Company-wide product strategy with leadership: product, business, go-to-market
- Product architect and decision maker for complex features on a governed BI platform
- Also grew dbdiagram.io / dbdocs.io from 0 to 500K+ users
Founder · Product Studio
Now- Building with a staff-level engineer; product leadership, strategy and architecture
Co-founder & Product · Centroly
2021 – 2023- Social knowledge-curation platform
Writer · Hacker Noon, Towards Data Science
2018 – 2019- Product management, data, design and tech
Co-founder & Head of Product · Gannha
2016 – 2019- Location-based marketing platform; team 2 → 15; shipped iOS, Android, Web
Product Designer + APM · e27 (Optimatic)
2016 – 2018- Led product design for Asia's startup media platform
Founder · KreLab
2014 – 2017- Troll Camera 360 (500K+ downloads); MediFree – Imagine Cup 2015 national winner
Technical Evangelism Lead · Microsoft Student Partners
2013 – 2017- Led team of 30; 1,500+ Azure trial users acquired
Game Designer / Developer Intern · Gameloft SEA
2015- Led team of 3 to ship an arcade game; awarded Best Intern
Recognition & Writing
- Imagine Cup 2015 – 1st place (Vietnam)
- Writer: Hacker Noon, Towards Data Science
- Talks and Build Talks series organizer
- Principle: simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible