Summary
Evan Otero is a Senior Product Manager and former founding engineer with 10 years of experience building developer tools and AI-first products at Google and DeepMind. He led the 0-to-1 development and GTM of Google Checks—scaling it to GA, enterprise adoption, and multi-million ARR—and later drove Gemini CLI, agentic developer experiences, and Gemini API strategy. Equally comfortable coding and setting product vision, he transitioned from engineering to product leadership after architecting user-facing systems that supported tens of thousands of developers. As a founder and investor he co-built startups (Fisherman, Joycestick) and now manages an early-stage fund focused on pre-seed deal flow and active portfolio advising. Based in New York, he mixes rigorous technical depth with go-to-market instincts and a fascination for recursive iteration—aptly summarized by his GitHub motto, “To iterate is human, to recurse divine.”
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Boston College
High School, High School at Episcopal School of Jacksonville
English, Spanish