# Kyle Gani > AI | Product | Developer experience Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kylegani I am passionate about inducing radical change in education, startups and the tech industry. With a strong skillset in brand strategy, DevOps, UI/UX, team dynamics and digital innovation, I aim to assist brands with increasing and maintaining a technological footprint through software and design-driven thinking. With over 5 years of experience in building a media business that specialises in branding, marketing and advertising, I bring something unique to the table: I am able to wear multiple business function hats that enable me to creatively and expertly navigate uncertainty and change. Because of this I can assist from both an operational and technical development perspective. My big, hairy audacious goal is to start, operate and grow the largest tech company in Africa dedicated to empowering startups within the next 5-10 years. ## Work Experience ### Senior Technical Product Manager @ Cerebrium Jan 2024 – Present | Hermanus, Western Cape, South Africa Product & Strategy - Own product roadmap for core infrastructure capabilities including multi-cloud expansion, cold start optimization, and build systems - Lead strategic initiatives targeting enterprise AI customers in voice and video segments - Drive competitive positioning against platforms like Modal, Replicate, and Baseten - Define success metrics using problem-initiative-metrics frameworks across team objectives Security & Compliance - Lead compliance certifications including SOC II and HIPAA - Conduct security reviews and maintain security posture across the platform - Own incident response processes and postmortem documentation - Deliver security and PII handling training to engineering team Planning & Delivery - Drive sprint planning and delivery cadence for engineering team - Analyze platform performance data to prioritize infrastructure improvements - Own customer activation funnel and reduce friction in onboarding-to-deployment journey Customer Success - Provide direct technical support to customers, troubleshooting deployment and integration issues - Gather feedback to inform product direction and prioritization Marketing & Brand - Contribute to branding and marketing initiatives - Support go-to-market positioning and messaging Engineering - Build internal tooling, including the company's administrative platform - Hands-on development work as needed to ship features and internal systems ### Senior Technical Product Manager I @ SadaPay Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | South Africa ### Technical Product Manager - Platform @ OfferZen Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Areas of focus: - Developer experience - Developer productivity - Platform efficiency - Platform availability and observability - Platform and organisational risk management Strategy: - Contribute to technical strategy by identifying and advocating for modern technologies and process that drive organisational objectives - Maintain and manage Platform roadmap and consistently make tradeoffs to respond to customer needs and the environment Discovery: - Conduct research with engineering managers, technical leadership, dev community experts and engineers to understand customer needs, and discover key solutions. - Engage with senior engineers across the organisation to understand the feasibility, complexity, scope and size of missions and tasks. - Create visibility for stakeholders regarding mission success metrics, core KPIs and data points of value. Planning: - Coordinate with engineering managers and product managers from other squads during collaborative missions. - Ensure production systems, tech debt, and DX debt are managed prioritised sustainably and effectively alongside features. Management: - Sustainably improve team's discovery, definition, prioritisation and planning processes. - Manage discovery, planning and specification workload to ensure teams are doing valuable work. - Ensure stakeholders are engaged in decisions and informed about progress. Execution: - Understand, drive and approve the overall direction of each mission. - Create mission documentation to capture insight and requirements, and define goals and outcomes. - Work with teams to ensure that the final mission documentation is complete and correct. - Ensure that the product that gets shipped is usable, useful and slick, and in line with the technical vision. - Ensure that releases run smoothly, including coordination, training, documentation and announcements. - Gather platform metrics, analyse and interpret them, and report them the organisation to demonstrate business impact. ### Information Technology Consultant @ Acrontum South Africa Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### Product Owner @ Platform45 Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa - Ideation, discovery and refinement of new features based on user feedback or internal organisational requirements. - manage and communicate priorities across the organisation by building and maintaining of an engineering roadmap. - Drafting of processes to improve engineering team efficiency, quality of output and team culture. - Management of organisational and team risk. - Relationship management with third party providers, partners and contractors. - Planning releases and running feature workshops across the organisation. - Reporting of engineering performance and opportunities for exploration - Maintaining a workable backlog of features - Managing the day-to-day scrum team - Mentorship and coaching of junior developers. - Management of the engineering support process with customer-facing departments - Dev-ops and management of continuous integration pipeline. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Platform45 Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Reason for leaving: Promoted into Product owner role - Build scalable, maintainable and documented software. - Stakeholder management: Product owner, Development team, Management & external clients - Architecture design & implementation - Implement and maintain high coding standards - Daily client management - Engage with design team (globally) with regard to project requirements - Backlog refinement and technical risk evaluation - Facilitate daily agile ceremonies - Conduct peer-code reviews - Manage CI/CD pipelines - Manage a teams of up to 7 developers - Coaching junior developers ### Engineering delivery lead @ Healthforce.io Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa - Manage delivery for Clinic, Growth, Dis-chem, Claims & Integrations streams - Refinement of features with product and engineering teams - Co-ordinate scrum ceremonies - Serve within a team of 8 engineers, QA and scrum master - Maintaining of development backlog - Managing engineering roadmap and facilitation of priority of features - Risk mitigation - Drafting of user stories and acceptance criteria for upcoming features - Maintaining ways of work and team charter - Drive process development initiatives to streamline engineering performance and facilitate inter-function collaboration - Liaise with design and business analysis teams on technical feasibility of new features - Relationship building with third party vendors and partners - Manage & triage the support pipeline between engineering and customer success - Coordination of releases - Management of the CI/CD pipeline and integrated services to ensure service up-time - Incident reporting - Facilitate meaning KPI setting within the engineering team - Reporting on team performance to management ### Engagement Lead @ Simplus Innovation Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Johannesburg Area, South Africa Reason for leaving: Seeking scale-up experience - Facilitating design sprints for new features - in-field R&D, workshopping and user testing new features - Drafting of go-to-marketing strategies and plans - Managing relationships with third parties, clients and partners - Business analysis and data gathering to support feature development - Architecture of software solutions with CTO - Drafting organisational processes to better support engineering team with COO - Maintenance of multi-stream roadmap - Drafting QA processes to improve quality output - Reporting on engineering performance - Management of scrum backlog & sprint coordination - Supporting engineering team ### Full Stack Web Developer @ Sxuirrel Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Stellenbosch, South Africa Reason for leaving: Company closed down - Translating design requirements into high quality code - Managing software development backlog - Reporting on development progress - Platform support and customer feedback management - Maintaining platform uptime and management of CI/CD pipelines - Engage with and support mobile app developers - Direct marketing and support on campaigns ### Software Engineer @ WeThinkCode Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Johannesburg Area, South Africa WeThinkCode_ is a revolutionary tuition-free tech institution dedicated to deliver Africa’s human potential and meet the increasing demand for software engineering skills and drive the continent’s digital economy. Democratising education by making it open and accessible to all talented young people, WeThinkCode_ sources high potential talent regardless of previous education, financial means or socio-economic background. Through our innovative selection criteria, we source talent from all backgrounds. At WeThinkCode_, there are no teachers, no classes, and students learn through a peer-to- peer problem-solving environment. In partnership with world-class training institution Ecole 42 (based in France), WeThinkCode_ trains young minds to become software engineers that think differently and are equip with skills to thrive in the digital era. Tuition-free, our two-year course is sponsored by companies going digital and looking to secure tech talent pipelines. Corporate partners provide financial support, skills development and a path to employment for students. In return, students pledge to complete internships with Corporate Sponsors and work for the sponsor at the end of their studies. Our sponsors include BCX, FNB, BBD and Derivco. This model has been proven to bridge the tech skills gap between academia and the industry by turning out highly qualified, motivated software engineers, each of whom has gone through a rigorous program integrating both work-based and school-based learning in computer programming. ### Founder & Managing Director @ Triune Media (PTY) LTD Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Johannesburg Area, South Africa Triune Media is a new-age digital creative agency founded and directed by Kyle. His daily duties include the management and upkeep of the business and it's processes - where he constantly injects creativity and fosters a new way of conducting business with technology and innovation. Kyle manages a small team and focuses on bringing agile methodologies and principals to the Creative space. As well as ensuring that client's needs are met, Kyle also serves as a change agent, seeking new ways of solving his client's problems. Kyle wears many hats at Triune Media and often finds himself in the trenches with his team. He offers a strong set of expertise in Sales, Marketing, Finance, IT, and Operations. ## Education ### Product Management University of Cape Town Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 ### Software Engineering WeThinkCode_ Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 ### BA Graphic Design in Graphic Design CTI (bedfordview) Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 ### Matric Sir John Adamson High School Jan 2005 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kylegani --- Source: https://flows.cv/kylegani JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kylegani/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29