Summary
Daily Claude Code power user building agentic developer tools. Author of "Structure Beats Scale," a white paper showing structured review pipelines outperform brute-force generation in LLM code synthesis. Co-inventor of a patented ML model (US12149553B1). 20 years in product management, three successful exits, founder background — the creative hacker spirit this role demands.
Employment
Meta
2023.03 – Present
2023 – Present
Delivering the most performant data pipelines in the world.
Product Manager, AI & Data Infrastructure
- Own the freshest, fastest SQL engine at Meta — used by ML resarchers, ads and content serving in Real Time.
- Developed a declarative MCP, catalog, and orchestration agent swarm that continuously optimizes warehouse queries with a novel safety/alignment mechanism — converting research prototypes into production infrastructure.
- Co-led the transition of the PM function in Data Infrastructure to an AI-Native, agentic development role with 10x productivity — identifying how emerging LLM capabilities could transform internal workflows.
- Led capacity conversations for 20+ internal customers with their finance and capacity teams, synthesizing conflicting feedback into actionable specifications.
Supernatural (acquired by Meta)
2022.09 – 2023.03
2022 – 2023
Led product through acquisition by Meta.
VP of Product
- 3x ARR and 2x user retention across millions of members; described as "the closest Meta ever came to realizing the metaverse" (Pranav Dixit, Business Insider).
- Guided product through $400M+ acquisition by Meta, surviving an FTC antitrust challenge — navigating extreme ambiguity from first-principles.
- Built 0-1 real-time multiplayer infrastructure supporting 10k+ concurrent users — shipping an ambitious, commercially successful product in a novel technology space.
- Led a team of 17 PMs, UXR, and Program Managers through hypergrowth and acquisition.
Elevate Security (acquired by Mimecast)
2020.01 – 2022.09
2020 – 2022
First product hire; built and steered product team to acquisition.
VP of Product
- Co-inventor, US12149553B1: novel ML risk-scoring model and automated intervention system — involved in research translation, model selection, evaluation design, and tuning.
- First product hire; built the Product Team from scratch including PMs, POs, Designers, and Technical Writers.
- Repositioned product against legacy security awareness training vendors by reframing the category around measurable risk reduction — differentiating on outcome metrics vs. completion rates.
- Pivoted company to new products that 2x ARR with a 60 NPS score and less than 5% churn.
Tonal
2018.11 – 2020.01
2018 – 2020
Owned engagement experience, pre-launch through scale.
Director of Product Management, Engagement
- Joined pre-launch as the first PM working horizontally across hardware, firmware, software, and content teams — shipping a unified product experience in a novel technology space.
- Increased engagement 2x and customer satisfaction 50% through data-driven experimentation, applying research from behavioral psychology to product metrics.
- Developed automated content production pipeline and workflows that increased output 27x.
Habitry (acquired by Lift The Bar)
2013.08 – 2018.11
2013 – 2018
Co-founded, built, and sold.
CEO, Head of Product, Co-Founder
- Co-founded and sold a Motivation Science consultancy; built an iOS behavior change platform with 72% daily adherence and 68% retention at 365 days, serving 16,000 users across 6 continents.
- Translated academic research (Self-Determination Theory, Motivational Interviewing) into product specifications that drove measurable behavior change outcomes.
Education
University of Chicago
2001 – 2004
Bachelors in Philosophy
Harvard University
2001 – 2001
Undergraduate Coursework in Economics
John F. Kennedy University
2011 – 2014
Masters in Sport Psychology
Writing
https://github.com/smledbetter/structure-beats-scale
White paper: structured review pipelines outperform brute-force generation in LLM Python code synthesis across 3,000+ runs on HumanEval, MBPP, and competitive programming benchmarks using Sonnet and Mercury 2.
https://smledbetter.com/blog
Blog series on AI-native product management — sprint methodology with AI agents, coaching agent teams, and building encrypted apps with LLMs.
Flowstate
https://github.com/smledbetter/flowstate
Sprint-based development workflow framework for Claude Code.
- Quality gate framework with automated checks (tests, types, lint, coverage) for AI-assisted development.
- Three-phase sprint structure (Think, Execute, Ship) that prevents scope drift on complex work.
- Metrics pipeline tracking token usage, session time, test counts, and code coverage across sprints.
Uluka
https://github.com/smledbetter/Uluka
Security claim verification CLI for code.
- Extracts security claims from comments, README, and JSDoc, then verifies they match actual implementation.
- Multi-language code parsing via Tree-sitter with taint-tracking data flow analysis across files.
- Optional Claude-powered verification for nuanced security properties, with deterministic rules running first.
Nexa Scheduler
https://github.com/smledbetter/Nexa-scheduler
Compliance-aware workload scheduler for GPU and CPU clusters on Kubernetes.
- Built a privacy-first Kubernetes scheduler enforcing data sovereignty, org isolation, and confidential compute constraints at scheduling time — including topology-aware GPU placement and gang-scheduling for multi-node training jobs.
- Fail-closed design with preemption policies and quota enforcement ensures pods stay Pending rather than compromise isolation guarantees.
- Full audit trail of every placement decision with structured JSON logging and Prometheus metrics for queue depth, scheduling efficiency, and resource utilization.
Weaveto.do
https://github.com/smledbetter/Weaveto.do
Privacy-first, agent-augmented task coordination for decentralized teams.
- End-to-end encrypted task coordination platform using Olm/Megolm (vodozemac WASM) with zero-knowledge relay.
- WASM-sandboxed custom agents with encrypted state and Ed25519 signature verification.
- No accounts — device-bound identity via WebAuthn PRF with ephemeral-by-design encryption keys.