Open to product & strategy opportunities
Umar AbuShaban
Product Manager // AI Engineer
I connect AI engineering and product strategy to ship things that feel simple, useful, and human.
About
I'm a product manager with a software engineering background, which really just means I like solving problems and building things that make life easier. I started out writing code, and now I spend my time connecting the dots between technology and people — increasingly through AI.
- 2026 — 2028Doctor of Engineering (D.Eng), AI & Machine Learning · George Washington University
- 2022 — 2023M.S. in Technology Management · Columbia University
- 2020 — 2022B.A. in Computer Science, Data Science Minor · University of Virginia
- AI & Rapid PrototypingClaude Code · Cursor · GitHub Copilot · Gemini · ChatGPT · Prompt Engineering · LLM Workflow Design
- ProductStrategy & Roadmapping · OKRs · Discovery & User Research · PRDs · Experimentation · GTM & Stakeholder Alignment
- TechnicalPython · SQL · R · APIs · AI/ML Products · Data Visualization
- DesignFigma · Wireframing · Interactive Prototypes · User Flows · Design Handoff
- DomainKYC/AML · Fraud & Financial Crime · Due Diligence · Risk Screening · Defense Technology
Work
Product Manager — KYC/AML & AI Risk Products
LexisNexis Risk SolutionsOwn product strategy, roadmap, and quarterly OKRs for a $185MM annual-revenue portfolio supporting KYC, AML, fraud, and due-diligence workflows for 50+ Tier-1 banks and fintechs. Lead development of an open-ended generative-AI assistant embedded across the customer portal, spanning products that collectively generate more than $1B in annual revenue. Use Claude Code, Cursor, and Figma to rapidly prototype AI features and workflows alongside engineering, data science, and UX. Translated investigator research into AI case summarization, risk scoring, and anomaly detection projected to cut review time ~40%, lift analyst productivity 30%, and create ~$8MM in upsell opportunities — leading a 12-person cross-functional team that shipped six major releases in 2025.
Senior Product Manager
Dinar Trading & ConsultingLed product strategy and development for an internal and customer-facing defense contracting platform generating ~$15MM in annual revenue, growing revenue ~25% over two years.
Led product strategy and development for an internal and customer-facing defense contracting platform generating ~$15MM in annual revenue, growing revenue ~25% over two years. Embedded AI/NLP capabilities to extract key terms, requirements, and risk indicators from RFPs and contracts, cutting manual data entry ~40%. Redesigned contract and opportunity-management workflows through user research, enabling analysts to process ~30% more deals per week, and established PRD, backlog, sprint, and executive-review practices that raised on-time delivery of major releases to ~95%.
Data Scientist
UVA HealthBuilt Python/R pipelines to clean, unify, and analyze multi-site clinical trial datasets, producing reports and dashboards that informed feature ideas for internal research tools.
Built Python/R pipelines to clean, unify, and analyze multi-site clinical trial datasets, producing reports and dashboards that informed feature ideas for internal research tools. Partnered with product and engineering to translate findings into scoped backlog items and capacity plans, helping the team prioritize work against OKRs.
Software Engineer
LeidosBuilt and shipped backend services and UI components for a command-and-control web application used by defense operators.
Built and shipped backend services and UI components for a command-and-control web application used by defense operators. Profiled and optimized mobile client performance (caching, API batching), cutting median screen load times ~30% and improving reliability in low-bandwidth environments. Instrumented key workflows and wrote SQL queries/dashboards to analyze operator behavior post-deployment, feeding insights into feature priorities.
Projects
01–03 / 03Elsewhere
- April 2026: 0 contributions
- May 2026: 5 contributions
- June 2026: 11 contributions
- July 2026: 16 contributions
- August 2026: 36 contributions
- September 2026: 287 contributions
- October 2026: 101 contributions
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