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Technical Product Manager — Founder Partner

I help founders turn ideas into products customers will pay for.

Commercial strategy, technical fluency, and product discovery — combined into one discipline. I partner with founders at the earliest, foggiest stage of a product and stay through to shipped, sellable software.

Fig. 01 — How three careers became one practice
COMMERCIAL · SALES TECHNICAL · ENGINEERING PRODUCT · DISCOVERY FOUNDER PARTNER
The four pillars

Everything I do sits on four disciplines.

Not a job title. A working method — markets, product, engineering, and delivery, applied together rather than in sequence.

01

Commercial Strategy

Markets, customers, sales motion, and the business models that make a product worth building.

02

Product Discovery

Personas, value propositions, MVP scope, and roadmaps grounded in real customer conversations.

03

Technical Leadership

Laravel, APIs, architecture, and AI-assisted development — enough fluency to build with engineers, not just brief them.

04

Delivery

Agile planning, sprint execution, and the continuous iteration that turns a roadmap into shipped software.

Signature projects

Products, not employers.

Three projects that show how the four pillars work in practice — from founder partnership to entrepreneurial product thinking.

Founder Partnership

ClientWise

Working directly alongside the founder to evolve an early MVP into a Version 1.0 ready for real customers.

→ Product discovery · Roadmap · Delivery
Creative Product Design

Y2K Interactive Narrative Experience

Turning an evolving movie screenplay into a dynamic companion experience — designing the gameplay framework, narrative engine, and chapter-based progression system while creative assets kept changing underneath it.

→ Systems design · Narrative architecture
Entrepreneurial Product Thinking

Tournament Community & Competition Platform

Identifying a market opportunity, researching organizer and community needs, and designing an MVP from a blank page.

→ Market research · MVP definition
Philosophy

Building products that matter

Successful software doesn't start with features.

It starts with understanding people.

Before I discuss technology with a founder, I try to answer five questions. Technology changes. These don't.