Summary
Darin Plutchok is a Senior Product Manager specializing in AI innovation with 13 years of experience turning taxonomy and NLP expertise into production AI features and rapid POCs. At Informa TechTarget he blends a deep background in metadata, taxonomies, and information science with hands-on skills in Python, GCP, SQL, and prompt engineering to advance practical generative AI and agentic frameworks across teams. He champions AI adoption through tools, training, and active community facilitation, often surfacing evaluation-driven approaches for embeddings and model evals. Uncommonly for a product leader, his roots as a professional taxonomist and librarian give him a rare strength in structuring knowledge that improves retrieval and model performance.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.A. Agricultural Policy Interdisciplinary Studies, B.A. Agricultural Policy Interdisciplinary Studies at Beloit College, Beloit Wisconsin
University of California, Los Angeles