about
Hello! My name is Cody (he/him). I’m passionate about progress via technology. Engineer by education & practice, product manager by profession & practice. dkdc.io contains free & open source (FOSS) code I’ve created. netsky is an AI system I’m experimenting with.
professional experience #
Currently the Product Lead at Ascend.io building the Agentic Data Engineering platform.
Previously a Senior Technical Product Manager at Voltron Data (shut down in 2026), focusing on data interfaces and Ibis. Shipped Ibis Birdbrain, an early tool-using agent that powered enterprise demos of text-to-SQL and visualization workflows on Theseus, Voltron Data’s distributed GPU query engine. Previously a Product Manager at dbt Labs (acquired by Fivetran in 2026) focusing on OSS (Python models) and Cloud (internal platform) products. Previously a Product Manager II at Microsoft (AI Platform | Azure ML) focusing on data, MLOps, and v2 developer experiences. Summer engineering internships at Convergent Engineering and Texas Instruments.
Background in electrical engineering (digital logic, signals and systems, embedded systems, mechatronics, VLSI, electronics, etc.) and data science (classical machine learning, neural networks, etc.). Technically fluent across data systems, AI, MLOps, developer tooling, and more. Plus the product, project, and engineering management needed to ship at scale.
I care about (w.r.t. work):
- OSS & scale
- beautiful design
- elegant engineering
- delightful user experiences
- efficient product/engineering processes
See my GitHub and/or LinkedIn for more details on my experience.