Michael is an exceptionally effective, clear-thinking, pragmatic product guy.
He blends practicality with taste—fast to ship, careful with systems, and relentlessly user-focused.
He has led high-velocity teams, dialed in growth loops, built reliable infra all while continually building things people want.

Skills & Competencies:
- Customer analytics: Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Metabase; Tinybird; Looker/Tableau
- AI/ML: custom models, CUDA, SageMaker, RAG, embeddings & vector DBs
- Platform/DevOps: multi-region (US/AU/UK/EU, GDPR DE), SRE, eventing
- Product engineering: SaaS, pricing & packaging, experimentation (A/B)
- Integrations: marketplaces, webhook/event architectures, Supabase portals
- Growth engineering: scaled from early traction to tens of millions in ARR
- Domains: structural engineering workflows (calcs.com), martech, CV/ads, data platforms

Tech Things:
  - computer vision ai for contextual advertising
    • Custom ai models w cuda, mlops sagemaker, RAG, embeddings/vector databases
    • Customer analytics w pubsub, bigquery, metabase
    • Self serve customer portal w supabase
  - fractional cto / principal
    • product strategy
    • tech strat + selection
    • capital allocation
  - vertical specific SaaS
    • Data Warehousing & Customer analytics
    • Integrations marketplace
    • Docs, Search, AI
    • ..other new business verticals
  - customer analytics
    • A number of times now build from scratch, or wrapped around partial setups 
    • aws, gcp, tinybird, clickhouse, vendors platform engineering
    • Customer analytics w pubsub, bigquery, metabase
    • Also tinybird, custom workflows into postgres, looker, tableau
  - platform / devops
    • Multi region across us, au, uk, eu (gdpr compliant DE)
    • Several times takes deployments from months or weeks to minutes
    • ship to prod fast and async rollout to users (ofc)
  - growth engineering from 1m to 30m Unicorn-status at linktree (https://linktr.ee)
    • employee 14
    • Event systems, analytics engineering, customer analytics
    • Pricing & Packaging
    • Link types, gating, statsig
    • Martech, vendors, tiktok & facebook partnership
  - martech product engineering
    • enterprise personalisation tools & integrations
    • product analytics & experimentation tools

Recent writing:
/blog/build-as-fast-as-you-think	Build as fast as you think	2025-12-28T00:00:00.000Z
/blog/async-home	async home	2025-11-25T00:00:00.000Z
/blog/evals	llm eval explorations	2025-10-07T00:00:00.000Z
/blog/always-send-events	Always Send Events	2025-10-05T00:00:00.000Z
/blog/best-of-breed-vendors	Best-of-breed vendor stack	2025-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
/blog/best-llm-ai-ecosystem-stack	Best LLM/AI ecosystem stack	2025-09-14T00:00:00.000Z

More: /llms-full.txt