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Platforms, and the people who build on them

I'm a product lead in New York. For most of the last decade I've worked on platforms: the systems other people build their own products on. Your customer is a developer, or lately an AI agent, and your success shows up in someone else's launch.

The thread through all of it is making the safe path the easy path. Manifest V3 and MCP governance are the same problem at different scales.

At a glance

Now
Enterprise MCP, Capital One
Based
New York
Studied
CS, Yale
Talks
Google I/O '24, '25

Off-work

A lot of what I do outside work comes back to food. I cook, I plan trips around where I want to eat, and a food festival will get me out of the apartment faster than almost anything else.

The rest: fantasy novels, video games, learning Japanese, badminton when someone's got a court. New York fills in the gaps. The US Open, a concert, a book signing.

  • Reading
  • Cooking
  • Travel
  • Language learning
David holding a plate of food he cooked at a cooking class

Where I've worked

  1. 2025-now

    Capital OneSenior Manager, Product

    Product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the internal MCP platform: gateway, registry, and governance for coding agents, used across multiple divisions.

  2. 2020-25

    GoogleLead PM, Chrome Extensions

    Led the extensions developer platform and the developer side of the Chrome Web Store. Reversed a declining developer base, led the Manifest V3 migration, built the technical writing team.

    • +30% YoY developers
    • 95% migrated

  3. 2018-20

    LobSenior PM, Platform

    Owned the core API platform for a startup that sends physical mail programmatically. Launched custom envelopes, a new revenue line in month one.

  4. 2014-18

    MicrosoftPM, PowerPoint for the web & Windows Developer Platform

    Office start page redesign, +7% consumer cloud usage. Before that, graphics and UI APIs in Windows and the infrastructure behind game recording.

  5. 2014

    Yale UniversityB.S., Computer Science