Principal Product & Design Leader, LLM

Michael Douma is an experienced product and design leader with a strong background in Python, Swift, JavaScript, semantic systems, and LLM orchestration. He has a proven track record in developing highly-used systems, including time.gov (1999), SpicyNodes (40M users), and AI-based health info (ProstateCalculator, 1.5M patients). He also has experience with association-based word games and a game-centric studio, funded by NSF. He recently had an article trending on HN about 'words with spaces' in English. Michael is adept at making complicated systems user-friendly and can provide overall product vision or incremental improvements for user engagement. He is seeking a product/design leadership role at a smallish company, focusing on developer tools, learning platforms, knowledge products, brain health, or creative AI. His latest project is inotherwords.app.