Senior Product Manager · AI/ML & Creative Tools
Engineering
precision.
Creative
instinct.
I build products where technology meets creativity — ML recommendation systems, AI-powered creative tools, and community platforms used by hundreds of millions of people.
Case Studies
ML-Driven Creative Tools & Feed Recommendation
Defined AI/ML product vision at VSCO, shipping a suite of ML-driven creative editing tools and leading 0→1 delivery of VSCO's first ML feed recommendation system on iOS — owning model selection, A/B evaluation, and rollout strategy.
7%
Engagement & retention lift
5%
Trial conversion
Lightroom Discover — 0→1 Community at 40M MAU
Pioneered Lightroom's first-ever user-generated content community (Discover), enabling 40M monthly active users to share photography across mobile, web, and desktop. Also spearheaded the 0→1 Lightroom Web learning pillar from scratch.
40M
Monthly active users
0→1
First community launch
AR Engagement at 360M Daily Active Users
Led UI/UX surfaces for Snapchat's AR filter ecosystem across the core app, Snap Spectacles, and Snapchat for Web — driving engagement growth via ML content rankings, retentive features, and content understanding at scale for 100K+ creator-submitted filters.
25%
AR engagement increase
360M
Daily active users
About
The engineer who stayed creative.
I started as a mechanical engineer at MIT, earned an MBA from Wharton, and spent the last decade building creative tools for some of the world's most visual platforms — Adobe, Snap, Clubhouse, VSCO.
What unifies it all: I'm drawn to the intersection of technical complexity and human creativity. I understand how ML models work well enough to make the right product decisions, and I care enough about the experience to make them matter.
When I'm not shipping product, I'm shooting food — the same patience and eye for light that makes a photograph work is what I bring to a feature launch.
17
Issued Patents
8+
Years in Product
400M+
Users Reached
Beyond the Roadmap
Food Photography
The same precision I bring to product, I bring to a plate.
@chef_hawthorneThinking Out Loud
Blog
Product Strategy
The Architecture of Silence
On the features we choose not to build, and why restraint is the hardest skill in product.
AI / ML
Shipping ML Features Responsibly
What I learned defining model evaluation criteria and AI ethics standards at a consumer creative platform.
Career
From Engineer to PM
MIT to Wharton to product — why a technical foundation makes you a better PM, not just a different one.
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