jonnyn.ai
Head of Product Engineering
I'm a creative engineering leader with big ideas and the ability to make them real. 16+ years of turning "what if" into shipped products. I thrive at the zero to one stage where vision meets execution.
I don't just manage teams, I get in the trenches. I ship features, shape product direction, and build the culture that lets great work happen. My background is unconventional: manufacturing floors to music tech startups. I see problems differently and move faster because of it.
In the AI product development era, the most valuable skill is getting ideas off the ground quickly, measuring what matters, and iterating relentlessly. That's what I do.
Skills & Expertise
16 years across the full stack. Manufacturing floors to AI products.
Languages
Frontend
Backend
Data
Cloud
Leadership
Fan Intelligence
Helping artists turn anonymous audiences into loyal fans. AI that spots your superfans, identifies who's drifting away, and tells you where to focus.
Know Your Fans
See who's engaged, who's drifting, and why they behave the way they do
Find Your Superfans
Smart segments that surface your most valuable fans so you can reward them
Act in the Moment
Realtime insights during live events so you can engage when it matters most
Experience
From enterprise scale to startup speed. Always shipping, always leading.
Key Achievements
- Personally delivered major product capabilities at pace while fulfilling full leadership responsibilities, operating as both strategic leader and principal level contributor
- Built a live events experience management system from the ground up, enabling the platform to support event centric fan engagement for the first time
- Designed Fan Intelligence, an AI layer enabling artist to fan connection at scale
- Redesigned the audience management experience, giving artists actionable insights into fan segments with clear indicators of where to focus attention
- Led a complete UX transformation including mobile support, modernised navigation, and a cohesive design system, turning a functional tool into a product users want to use
- Drove significant performance improvements across the platform, dramatically reducing page load times and improving reliability at scale
- Doubled team velocity through clearer direction and improved ways of working
- Introduced Shape Up methodology to engineering and product, subsequently adopted company wide, with me leading cross functional cycles that now drive business direction
- Provided clear product vision translating business strategy into actionable roadmaps, unblocking teams and aligning stakeholders
- Reinvigorated engineering culture with improved developer experience, code quality standards, and documentation practices
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Manufacturing & Process Engineering
2008–2014
Before software, I launched high volume automotive products and optimised production processes. These skills still define how I work today.
- •Launching products at scale: from design through to mass production
- •Lean Six Sigma: systematic process improvement and data driven decisions
- •Cross functional leadership: coordinating engineering, operations, and quality
Education
MSc Professional Software Development
Ulster University
BEng Engineering Management
Ulster University
Let's Connect
Need an engineering leader who builds and ships? I'm exploring my next opportunity. If you're building something ambitious, let's talk.
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