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John Demeter

15+ years of leadership has taught me how to turn emerging technology into products that ship. From SOC2 compliance automation to quantum-accelerated discovery on AWS Braket to agentic AI creative tools. I don't manage the future. I build it.

AI Product Manager
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My Story 

I don't just manage products. I build the future they run on.

Fifteen-plus years ago, I started where most technical leaders start. In the room where things go wrong and someone has to fix them. That room taught me more than any framework ever could. Seven years deep in project management, I learned how to turn chaos into a plan, and more importantly, success. Five years into product and implementations, I learned how to turn a plan into something people actually want. For the last five years, I've been living inside AI after receiving my Master’s in Artificial Intelligent & Machine Learning. Not reading about it, building with it.


That progression isn't just my resume. It's a pattern. Every few years, I go one layer deeper into the technology stack, because I refuse to manage what I don't understand well enough to build myself.


Today, I sit at the intersection of enterprise product strategy and emerging technology. Translating ambiguous, cutting-edge capabilities into systems that ship, scale, and survive contact with real users and real auditors. 

My vision is to build a future where technology doesn't just process data, but truly understands and elevates human intent. 

      What I bring to the table

Expertise
Fifteen-plus years of leadership under real pressure.

I've managed teams, budgets, and stakeholders through the kind of ambiguity that breaks people who've only ever worked from a clean roadmap.

Product instincts sharpened by seven years in the trenches of execution

Before I set strategy, I ran the projects. I know what a roadmap looks like when it survives contact with engineering reality because I built that muscle first.

Five years embedded in AI, not adjacent to it.

I'm not a PM who's shipped AI systems compliance automation, quantum-assisted discovery, agentic creative pipelines and over 36 products in 2026.

Compliance and security as a design principle, not an afterthought

SOC2, PII, data governance, and security-by-design aren't just checkboxes. They're built into how I scope the work from day one.

AI Strategy & Lifecycle

Defining roadmap excellence from POC to global scale, ensuring technical feasibility meets business goals.

Fluency across the full stack: cloud, platform, and emerging tech

AWS architecture, DevOps pipelines, Langchain, Huggingface, and quantum computing platforms like Braket aren't buzzwords on my resume. They're tools I've actually put to work.

A bias toward building over theorizing

Give me a hard problem and I'll bring back a working prototype. Not a slide deck about what a prototype could look like.

CAREER TIMELINE

2025 - PRESENT
Senior Product Manager

Led the development of P.O.C. to enterprise-grade LLM, Agentic, Data Lake platforms. Bringing over 30 products in 2026 from idea to go-live. 

2023 - 2025
Product Development Manager

Led the digital innovation department on a 0 to 1 cybersecurity platform. Lead the GTM strategy with Marketing/Sales.

2022 - 2023
Technical Project Manager

Led implementation and product teams to deliver a mobile point-of-sales SaaS solution. 

2022 - 2022
Program Manager

Led strategic growth of a voter registration SaaS platform driving product innovation from concept to a scaled, market-ready solution

2014 - 2021
Project Manager

Directed strategic planning and full lifecycle oversight for a portfolio of environmental engineering, remediation, and construction projects. Delivering over $10 million in value across six years while partnering directly with the CEO and lead engineers

LET'S BUILD THE FUTURE

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