Todd Wilkens is a seasoned product, design, and technology founder and executive with 25+ years building high-growth platforms that have scaled to hundreds of millions of users, $15B+ GMV, and multiple companies reaching billion-dollar valuations. He combines hands-on AI expertise—prompt engineering, embeddings, RAG, agent orchestration—with a track record of introducing AI features that boosted retention and ARR across three successive companies. Todd has led product and engineering teams through rapid scale-ups, turnarounds, and PE exits, delivering measurable gains in velocity, quality, and revenue while maintaining rigorous compliance in life sciences and healthcare. Based in Austin, he now focuses on founder-first advisory and building tools for authentic professional expertise in the agent era, and is a persistent advocate for accessibility, inclusion, and shipping thoughtful AI rather than “AI slop.”
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
ABD (doctoral research) Sociology, ABD (doctoral research) Sociology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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