I’m a Senior Technical Product Manager, building and scaling complex data and AI-enabled platforms — from early product definition and architecture through multi-country production rollouts supporting 1M+ users.

My work sits at the intersection of product strategy, engineering execution, and systems architecture. I specialize in turning ambiguous, high-stakes problem spaces into clear product and technical direction, then driving those initiatives through delivery — especially where data platforms, interoperability, and AI/ML are involved.

Most of what I do is practical and outcome-driven: shaping product direction when requirements are unclear, aligning engineers around workable designs, and ensuring delivery mechanisms succeed under real-world constraints.

• Ambiguous product & platform initiatives
  Defining product direction, scope, and execution plans for complex platform and data products where requirements are unclear and constraints are real

• Platform products at scale
  Owning end-to-end delivery of platform capabilities spanning backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and AI-enabled workflows across distributed teams

• AI & data platforms (product-to-production)
  Driving AI/ML-enabled features from concept through production, including speech-to-text pipelines, decision-support systems, analytics platforms, and applied ML workflows

• Interoperability & platform foundations
  Owning API products, FHIR-based systems, data standards, and system-to-system integrations that enable new products and national-scale adoption

• Execution under ambiguity
  Translating product intent into executable plans through dependency mapping, risk management, roadmap sequencing, and delivery governance

• Modernization & scalability
  Leading product and platform modernization efforts from legacy architectures to scalable, cloud-native systems with measurable improvements in performance, reliability, and cost efficiency

• Senior Technical Product Manager with 10+ years of experience spanning software engineering, platform product management, and large-scale technical delivery

• Led multi-quarter platform product initiatives across digital health, fintech, and public-sector systems, including deployments across 6+ countries and platforms serving over 1M users

• Former Technical Program Manager II at Ona, where I owned delivery for critical platform capabilities, modernized data architectures, and introduced AI-enabled components into production systems supporting global deployments

• Regularly own platform roadmaps, feature sequencing, and technical trade-offs in close partnership with engineering, design, policy, and regulatory stakeholders

• Background in software engineering, allowing me to partner deeply with engineers while maintaining a systems-level view of product strategy, execution, and outcomes

• Currently focused on Senior / Principal Technical Product Manager roles working on platform products, data systems, and AI-enabled infrastructure

• AI-enabled product and platform patterns (agent-assisted workflows, decision systems)
• Scalable data architectures, reliability, and observability for large platform products
• How technical product managers can better connect strategy to execution in AI and platform teams
• Product execution models for high-ambiguity, regulation-heavy technical environments

• 💼 LinkedIn: francisodhiambo
• 💬 Happy to chat about technical product leadership, platform products, AI systems, or complex delivery challenges
• 📍 Based in Kenya | Open to global opportunities

⚡ Fun fact: I started my career writing production code and evolved into owning both the product direction and the execution behind systems used by over a million people.