About

I work in product management and marketing, focused on cybersecurity products. The technology is genuinely difficult, and the buying decision usually happens under pressure, often made by people who will never touch the thing themselves. Most of my job is translation. I work out what a product actually does for someone, then say it plainly enough that they can decide.

I came to it sideways. I spent eight years in a small organisation, which gave me the luxury of taking on far more than my title suggested: teaching, managing, and testing my hypotheses in a results driven environment and on my long suffering students. After roughly eighteen thousand of them, I went back to school, to the other side of the desk, and took a degree in Information Technology at Carnegie Mellon.

What stuck with me from that was the shape of the problem more than the technology itself. People, processes and technology only get interesting where they meet, and almost every failure I have seen sits on one of those seams. That happens to describe product management fairly well, which is probably how I ended up here.

Outside work I build, fly and crash drones. The building and the flying are the point. The crashing is simply the tax. I started with a radio controlled Champ and an 808 keychain camera taped underneath, and have been getting steadily better and slightly more expensive ever since. These days that means a DJI FPV and a sub 250g build running an O4 Pro. There is footage on the site, some of it genuinely steady.

I also photograph wildlife: flycatchers and raptors in the Sinhagad valley, big cats and elephants in Kruger, pit vipers and butterflies around Mulshi. One of the leafbirds ended up on Wikipedia, which pleases me more than it probably should.

If you are a former student, I would like to hear from you.