Jun 2022 – May 2023 · 11 mos · Berlin, Germany · On-site

• data load tool (dlt) has 3M+ monthly downloads. Powers data workflows at 5,000+ companies. $10M+ raised (led by Bessemer). Helped get the company off the ground: defined vision and values (still in use today), redesigned the interface of the core data loading tool, created all initial documentation, built pipelines with early users, etc.

Nov 2021 – Apr 2022 · 5 mos

• Rasa was a pioneering open-source agent framework during the GPT-2 and GPT-3 era. Team grew from 15 to 150. $70M raised. 20k GitHub stars, 25 million downloads, 400 contributors. Empowered a group of PMs to build the open source and data-centric AI tools needed to create conversational AI interfaces for narrow domains

Apr 2021 – Nov 2021 · 7 mos

• Facilitated various teams to bridge the gap from arXiv to GitHub. Research included fine-tuning GPT-3 to act as a user simulator that was then used to improve our supervised ML dialogue management system, creating synthetic data with GPT-J to annotate training examples for our natural language understanding system, and generating Python code for the Rasa Actions SDK after getting early access to the original Codex model from OpenAI

May 2020 – Apr 2021 · 11 mos

• Facilitated design, engineering, and research across Rasa Open Source, Rasa X, & Rasa Enterprise as the first and only product manager at Rasa through Series B funding (led by a16z). Delivered production ML systems at JPMC, T-Mobile, Walmart, Adobe, United HealthCare, Lemonade

May 2019 – Apr 2020 · 11 mos

• First product hire at Rasa. Moved to Berlin at 21 to join a 15-person team building the open-source framework that would become a predecessor to today's agent frameworks. Owned product across Rasa Open Source, Rasa X, and Rasa Enterprise through Series A (led by Accel)

May 2018 – Apr 2019 · 11 mos · Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

• Refactored the dialogue management system to incorporate greater context during the BERT era. AI R&D team of PhD students and me. Team grew 30 to 90. Raised $60M+ (led by Insight Partners)

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos

• Shipped a geospatial data layer on top of core business data and a web app to use it, while team scaled from 20 to 80

May 2016 – Apr 2017 · 11 mos

• Accelerated one of the co-founders in an apprentice role, delivering the fastest internet in the world to the city of Detroit after a $30M investment from Dan Gilbert

Aug 2015 – Oct 2015 · 2 mos · Detroit, Michigan, United States

• Convinced company co-founded by Dan Gilbert to refocus product and bring me on to the team

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos · Detroit, Michigan, United States

• Sent a letter to a Dan Gilbert, billionaire founder, asking to borrow his helicopter and got a job instead

May 2014 – Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Clarkston, Michigan, United States

• Drove around a lot of golf carts