Silas Sao
Product Experience at IBM
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorSilas Sao is a product and design leader with 14+ years blending engineering chops and user-centered design to ship complex developer and enterprise products. He’s led 0‑1 launches, built design teams from scratch, and unified fragmented experiences at companies like DataStax, New Relic, and IBM, often aligning product, engineering, and marketing around clear design strategy. Known for turning technical complexity into usable developer experiences, he’s recently focused on how AI reshapes product design and developer tooling. A hands-on former engineer who still codes and writes publicly to clarify thinking, Silas pairs pragmatic process (DesignOps, lean research) with strong communication to move cross-functional organizations. Based in Portland, he brings a rare mix of executional rigor and craft-driven design leadership that accelerates both product velocity and clarity.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (26)
unobtrusive7
rails-gem7
jquery6
nlp5
restful5
chrome4
rails4
machine-learning4
ruby4
chrome-extension4
network4
haystack4
api3
python3
endpoints3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sao/dotfiles
Jun 2012 - Feb 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 5 pushes in 8 years 9 months
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