Built a CLI for orchestrating multiple AI agent workstreams. Solved the bottleneck I kept hitting: expert attention, not raw agent capacity.
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One senior engineer now executes product design, engineering, growth, support, and ops.
3+ years shipping applied-AI products plus 20 years delivering growth, efficiency, and quality for digital businesses.
Denver, CO
Best fit
Product or platform launches, turnarounds, and exit preparation that need range and speed, not a bigger team.
AI transformation that needs to be built and operated, not just strategized.
Ventures and teams that need full-lifecycle ownership from one seat instead of a larger, slower structure.
Simon J Hill
LinkedInStaff AI Product Engineer and Product Manager at Tari Labs, Rachio, and other clients
GTM engineering for Blink: agentic browser automation with payment rails
4 exits: Rachio/Rain Bird, if(we)/ParshipMeet Group, AOL/Verizon, Spire Digital/Valtech
VP Product at Rachio, Director at Meet Group, Principal PM at AOL/MapQuest
Former management consultant to Chevron, U.S. Department of Energy, URS, and even the U.N.
Oxford (MA Linguistics, BA Oriental Studies), UCL (MA Philosophy)
Ex-British. Failed Buddhist monk, India 1992 and Japan 1997.
40M+
Daily users at peak
$75M+
Revenue line managed
4
Exits
25
Years shipping
3
Patents
Capabilities
Everything you'd hire a team for. One engineer.
AI systems
Practical uses of LLMs where they improve throughput, decision support, workflows, or product experience without turning the product into a gimmick.
Includes
OpenAI, Anthropic, RAG, embeddings, orchestration, internal tools
Application delivery
Hands-on implementation across web, mobile, backend, and data plumbing, with a bias toward maintainable systems rather than heroic prototypes.
Includes
React, Vue, Next.js, Python, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis
Data and instrumentation
Event models, reporting, operational dashboards, forecasting, and decision support for teams that need fewer opinions and better visibility.
Includes
Snowflake, BigQuery, dbt, Metabase, Looker, Tableau, Streamlit
Infrastructure and specialist domains
Practical platform engineering, plus access to trusted specialists when the job genuinely needs deep security, DevOps, or domain-specific reinforcement.
Includes
Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Cloudflare, observability, payments, Web3
Product leadership
Strategy, opportunity framing, roadmap design, pricing, sequencing, and go-to-market decisions that keep product and business logic tied together.
Includes
Discovery, positioning, prioritization, launch planning, monetization
Design and growth
User journeys, interface design, conversion systems, lifecycle loops, paid acquisition, and the measurement layer needed to improve them without guesswork.
Includes
UX, UI, design systems, analytics, SEO, lifecycle, paid acquisition, experimentation
Typical engagement model
Deliver highest leverage priorities while transforming the plane in flight.
01
Start with the constraint that matters most: growth, delivery speed, monetization, AI adoption, or product reset.
02
Restructure execution and operations for maximum AI leverage without losing accountability.
03
Instrument the work so decisions improve with evidence, not opinion.
AI Tooling & Research
Designed and shipped agentic technology products.
7 projects across agents, identity, governance, and research
Portfolio
Products built from zero through growth to exit.
8 builds across product, ops, and infrastructure
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Writing
Essays on AI transformation, innovation culture, and the systems we build to live by.
3 essays across strategy, governance, and org design
Transformation Consulting
Ten years designing and delivering digital business transformation services before going in-house.
1998 – 2010
1998 – 2001
N.C.Company Ltd
Information Architect & Service Designer
Strategic, partnership, and new product development for some of the largest digital transformations of the dot-com era. Clients included Vodafone, BBC, Barclays, Carlton, GUS, and FT.com.
Digital TransformationNew EconomyEnterprise
2002 – 2007
Developmental Consulting, Inc.
Senior Management Consultant
Applied operational research methods synthesized from RAND and the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Built quantitative risk-analysis tools and transformation programs for Chevron, the U.S. Department of Energy, and URS.
Organizational ScienceRisk AnalysisQuantitative Methods
2007 – 2010
Spire Digital
VP of Strategy & Consulting
Led transformation from web design firm to digital strategy consultancy. Doubled average project size, established product strategy practice. Awarded Denver Business Journal Top 40 Under 40, 2009. Acquired by Kin+Carta, then Valtech.
Service DesignDigital StrategyPractice Building