AI PM · Senior Product Manager · Relocating to KL · 8 yrs in product · 14 yrs in tech

Builder PM who ships AI features, writes the code, and builds the agents that ship the next one

Three AI features in production. ~51x usage growth in 6 months. 32 analysts using them daily. I spec the feature, design the prompts, ship the code, track adoption in PostHog, and run LLM-as-Judge evals on production traces - so I can tell you which ones real users actually reach for, which ones are degrading in output quality, and which ones only demoed well.

Eshan Deane

How I think

Find the constraint. Build a system to remove it. Then automate the system.

I find the one structural problem, redesign around it, and use AI where it creates real leverage. Every case below follows that pattern.

01 - Operate
Do the work by hand

Onboarded 29 distributors directly before building anything - so the platform was designed from the bottlenecks, not a whiteboard.

02 - Build
Build the system that scales it

Vibe-coded the prototype to earn the mandate, then built the platform with one engineer, writing production code in Claude Code.

03 - Automate
Automate the system itself

Wrapped delivery in a 5-agent pipeline so the machine ships; I hold the judgment calls at each gate.

01 · Needle Movers

Business outcomes I owned end to end

Revenue, retention, and time-to-revenue. Each one started with a bottleneck I hit doing the work myself, then became a system.

01

Onboarded 29 distributors by hand

Managed 10–15 concurrent accounts with nightly calls to US partners from Sri Lanka. Led ERP integrations across AS/400, Eagle, FreshByte, Produce Pro, QuickBooks, Fishbowl, and custom SFTP systems. Trained an analyst who independently onboarded 5 more.

$72.7K/mo MRR 34 accounts 94% retention WCW: $5.32M new online revenue
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02

Cut time-to-revenue 40% with an AI-enhanced platform

Saw the same onboarding bottlenecks repeat across every account. Vibe-coded a prototype to earn the mandate, then built the full platform from scratch with one engineer using Claude Code - 74 PRs in 9 months. Now live across 32 accounts.

189 → 113 days Intake 100 → 8.5 days (11x) ~$250K backlog cleared
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03

Built Track from 0 to 1

Validated demand by integrating Routific before building anything. Killed the live map no one used and pivoted to ETA notifications - the call that shaped the product. Shipped a driver app (iOS + Android), monitoring portal, and notifications.

4 distributors 8,000+ restaurants 2,500-restaurant enterprise rollout
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04

Payment gateway at Sysco LABS (CAKE POS)

Owned the CAKE POS payment gateway as Proxy Product Owner. Five years in operations and support on the same product meant I was in the ticket data before I was in the roadmap. The clearest output: I noticed an unusual number of chargebacks being lost, traced it to a design mismatch between the internal workflow and how the third-party processor actually handles US chargebacks, and redesigned the entire system. Winnable cases had been abandoned because the system was misreading dispute status. Fixing it saved $50K/month.

+120% revenue ($40M) 2× users $50K/mo saved
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02 · AI in Production

Features real users touch, with growing adoption

Three AI features I shipped into the platform end-to-end (prompt design + UX) on data-ingestion rails engineering built. I was also PM on two more (meeting matching, spec generation) - requirements and testing while engineering owned the build. Instrumented in PostHog so adoption is visible, not assumed. Every AI output is reviewable: analysts can take it, edit it, or skip it.

Claude Code Cursor Multi-agent orchestration RAG PostHog instrumentation Adoption tracking Prompt orchestration Langflow Langfuse MCP

03 · How I Ship

Agents I built that are in production or flagged as model AI wins

The same operate-then-automate discipline applied to delivery: one agent is team-facing and in production with hard gates to prevent code writes or PR opens; another was flagged internally as a model AI-adoption win. A third wraps the full delivery cycle in a 5-agent pipeline.


Background

Operator first, then builder

2026 – Present

Senior Product Manager · Cut+Dry (Series B, B2B SaaS)

Built the 5-agent delivery pipeline around an autonomous coding engine, scaled the AI onboarding platform, and drove ~51x usage growth across the 3 AI features I shipped in 6 months.

2023 – 2026

Senior PM, Onboarding → PM, Onboarding · Cut+Dry

Onboarded 29 distributors by hand, then built the AI-enhanced platform that cut time-to-revenue 40%. Led all 4 What Chefs Want regional rollouts ($1B+ distributor): $5.32M new online revenue, ~$800K/year in automated order-entry savings.

2019 – 2023

Product Manager · Cut+Dry

Built Track, a 0-to-1 last-mile delivery product, across 4 distributors and 8,000+ restaurants.

2012 – 2019

Proxy Product Owner & Operations · Sysco LABS (CAKE POS)

Grew payment gateway revenue 120% ($40M) and fixed a chargeback workflow saving $50K/month - building on 5 years in operations and support on the same product.

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Teaching

"Beyond Vibe Coding"

2026

4-hour hands-on workshop · University of Moratuwa

For CS students at Sri Lanka's #1 ranked CS program. Core thesis: shift from vibe coding (prompt, accept, move on) to agentic coding by building the framework that makes agents useful and shipping repeatable. Most students shipped a real feature by session end.