Product Ownership
Roadmaps, discovery, backlog grooming and stakeholder alignment. I keep teams focused on outcomes, not output.
Available for new projects & collaborations
Manuel FitzAI / ML / Hackathons
Product Owner & Full-Stack Developer. I turn ambiguous ideas into shipped products — bridging product strategy and hands-on engineering, with a focus on AI and machine learning.
- 20+
- Hackathons
- 8+
- Years shipping product
- 30+
- AI/ML projects
- ∞
- Cups of coffee
What I do
Product thinking meets engineering depth
I sit comfortably between the whiteboard and the codebase. That dual fluency lets me own products from the first problem statement to the last deployed line.
AI / ML Engineering
From prototyping LLM workflows to fine-tuning and RAG pipelines — I build intelligent features that actually ship.
Full-Stack Development
End-to-end product builds with TypeScript, React, Next.js and Python. Frontend polish to backend plumbing.
Hackathon Velocity
Zero-to-demo in 48 hours. I love the constraint of building something real, fast, with a small team.
Now
Product Owner & Full-Stack Dev
Owning AI product initiatives end-to-end — from strategy and discovery to building and shipping ML-powered features.
Ongoing
Hackathon Builder
Regularly competing and mentoring at hackathons, turning bold ideas into working demos under tight deadlines.
Background
Full-Stack Engineering
Years of hands-on engineering across the stack, giving me the technical depth to lead product with credibility.
Selected work
Things I've built & shipped
A snapshot of the kinds of projects I love — AI-powered products, fast prototypes, and the product process behind them.
LLM Agent Platform
FeaturedAn orchestration layer for multi-step AI agents with tool use, memory, and human-in-the-loop review built for production workloads.
LLMsPythonNext.jsRAG
Real-time ML Insights
A dashboard surfacing model predictions and drift metrics in real time, letting product teams act on ML signals without a data scientist on call.
ML OpsTypeScriptStreaming
Hackathon: Winning Demo
AwardLed a 4-person team to build an end-to-end AI assistant in 48 hours — from idea to deployed product, taking home a top prize.
HackathonRapid PrototypingAI
Product Discovery Toolkit
A lightweight framework and set of templates I use to run discovery sprints, validate problems, and de-risk roadmaps before a line of code is written.
ProductStrategyResearch
More code, experiments and hackathon projects live on GitHub.
Browse reposToolbox
Skills & technologies
A T-shaped toolkit — broad across product and engineering, deep in AI and machine learning.
AI / ML
- LLMs & Prompt Engineering
- RAG Pipelines
- Fine-tuning
- PyTorch
- Hugging Face
- Vector DBs
Engineering
- TypeScript
- React / Next.js
- Node.js
- Python
- PostgreSQL
- Tailwind CSS
Product
- Discovery
- Roadmapping
- User Research
- Agile / Scrum
- Stakeholder Mgmt
- Analytics
Get in touch
Have an idea worth building?
Whether it's an AI product, a hackathon team, or a tricky problem that needs both product sense and engineering — I'd love to hear about it.