Sean Wayne
Senior Product Manager | AI/ML Platforms · Enterprise SaaS · Platform Infrastructure · Fintech
Vancouver, BC | sean.wayne6@outlook.com | linkedin.com/in/seanwayne6
About
Senior PM with 9+ years building AI-powered and platform-level enterprise products at scale. Built platform infrastructure (APIs, integrations, shared services) and ML-driven features that generated $5.1M ARR, saved $1.5M annually, and scaled a fintech platform to $50M+ monthly volume across 200+ organizations. Harvard-trained in Machine Learning. Keynote speaker on AI in legaltech.
Experience
Upland Software — Senior Product Manager, GenAI & Platform Applications (Apr 2024 – Present)
- Transformed a legacy product into a modern platform generating $5.1M ARR in its first product cycle
- Shipped a platform-level API orchestration engine, cutting support costs 36%
- Drove $1.5M in annual cost savings through AI model benchmarking and optimization
- Owned 3-year product roadmap across 30+ cross-functional stakeholders
- Negotiated co-sell partnerships with Microsoft, AWS, and Google
Canaccede Financial Group — Technical Product Manager, AI & ML (Dec 2020 – Apr 2024)
- Scaled platform ARR 117% ($3M to $6.5M) and client base 4x to 200+ organizations
- Shipped predictive ML models for credit risk, fraud detection, and customer analytics
- Led microservices migration, improving uptime 90% and scaling to $50M+ monthly volume
- Designed pricing strategy, compressing sales cycle by 4 months and growing pipeline 200%
Data Naya Inc — Director of Product Management (Aug 2017 – May 2020)
- Delivered 15+ analytics solutions for 8+ enterprise clients with 98% on-time delivery
- Scaled data processing 5x (2TB to 10TB+ daily) and cut infrastructure costs 40%
Education
Harvard University — Computer Science & Machine Learning
Humber College — Business Administration
Centennial College — Project Management
Awards
- Blue Cape Award, Top 1% Performer — Upland Software, 2024
- Keynote Speaker — SF PM Conference, 2024
- Best Use of Data Award — Collision Toronto, 2023
- Product Leadership Award — Canaccede Financial, 2022
Featured Work
- AI Chatbot Platform — Enterprise support automation, 40% ticket reduction
- LLM Evaluation Framework — Model benchmarking across GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA — 23% accuracy improvement, 60% latency cut, $1.5M savings
- Agentic Workflow Engine — Autonomous agent orchestration for enterprise processes
- RAG Knowledge System — Document Q&A for legaltech/enterprise knowledge bases
- Data Pipeline Architecture — ETL scaling 2TB to 10TB+ daily, 40% infra cost reduction
- Analytics Dashboard — Funnel/cohort analysis driving data-driven decisions
- API Integration Hub — Platform API orchestration, 36% support cost reduction
- Data Sync Engine — Multi-source aggregation, microservices migration, 90% uptime improvement
- Mobile App — Cross-platform enterprise mobile experiences
- UX Case Study — Research-backed design, before/after user flow improvements
- Model Routing System — Smart LLM routing, $1.5M annual savings in inference costs
Contact
Email: sean.wayne6@outlook.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/seanwayne6
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada