Paul Clenahan
Product Management Consultant Advisor at Lirvana Labs, Maker of Yeti Confetti Kids
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Clenahan is a fractional product executive and advisor with 30+ years of experience taking software products from concept to market across enterprise, consumer, and open-source domains. He combines strategic vision with hands-on product management—often stepping in as the first formal Product Manager to build product functions, set processes, and drive execution alongside founders. A pragmatic, outcome-focused leader, Paul is skilled at reducing risk, aligning teams, and creating lightweight agile systems that help scaling companies deliver customer value early and often. He co-founded the Eclipse BIRT open-source reporting project and served on the Eclipse Foundation board, bringing rare experience in building developer ecosystems and widely adopted OSS. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he specializes in short, high-impact fractional engagements that convert strategy into measurable deliverables, from roadmaps and PRDs to UX and go-to-market execution. Paul’s blend of enterprise product leadership and proven open-source success makes him particularly effective for startups stretched between vision and operational execution.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Edinburgh
Github Skills (9)
wavefront9
image-viewer7
documentation5
viewer5
x114
image4
imlib23
image-processing3
openexr3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pclenahan/raspberry-pi-photo-frame
Feb 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 10 months
pclenahan/hello-world
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:14 PRs, 15 pushes, 15 branches in 1 day
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