Product Manager · Builder

Product Manager who navigates technical shallows and builds products end to end.

When customers ask for Faster Horses, I focus on their core frustrations and solve the ones that don't drag in expensive technical risks. I'm Michael Huang and I ship the products I manage. I have led products ranging from audio-analysis and lyrics time-coding automation to Google Ads analyst skills, anomaly reports, analytics dashboards, and business-critical ETL pipelines.

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Featured Work

Product Owner & Engineer

Stream of Worship

A system that analyzes Chinese worship songs and renders seamless multi-song audio and lyrics-video sets — from catalog scraping to offline-capable playback.

Built for a 400+ song catalog with thousands of scored pairwise transitions

Next.js 16
FastAPI
AWS Lambda/SQS
Neon Postgres + pgvector

All Work

Focus Areas

Domains I've designed, built, and managed products in.

Machine Learning

time-series anomaly detection · forecasting · Python · Pandas · NumPy · scikit-learn · Jupyter

Agents & RAG Search

LangGraph Agentic Loops · RAG-enhanced query generation · LanceDB · pgvector

Data Engineering

Spark ETL pipelines · Avro · ORC · Parquet · Trino

Data Analytics & Dashboards

AWS Quicksight · Athena · EMR · Lambda · S3

Distributed & Reactive Microservices

Kafka · Akka · Scala/Java

Product Management

Jobs-to-be-Done · roadmaps · stakeholder management · team leadership

Growth & Marketing Analytics

Google Ads · conversion attribution · marketing automation

Featured

Google Ads Asset-based Ad Extensions

11 Apr, 2022

Quick look at adoption

Recent Writing

Stream of Worship — a series

25 Sep, 2026

Introducing a series on building Stream of Worship, a system for seamless Chinese worship music transitions
HandsOff - Protection from little fingers and paws

13 Nov, 2025

A macOS utility to lock keyboard/mouse while leaving the screen viewable
Visualize NYC 311 Call Stats via Zola

8 Apr, 2022

Play with chart.xkcd and vega-lite
What contributing to QSV taught me

28 Mar, 2022

Learning Rust with my first real project
Table Demo NYC 311 Calls

26 Mar, 2022

Table showing NYC 311 calls

About

I've spent my career where product decisions meet hard technical constraints — data platforms, ML systems, and most recently LLM tooling. I still write code and ship infrastructure for the products I manage, because the best product judgment comes from knowing what the work actually costs.