Stefano Caruso

Gauntlet AI

AI Product Engineer

Feb 2026 - May 2026

Built multi-agent product systems inside an AI factory model, combining product strategy with hands-on implementation.

• Built and orchestrated AI agent systems within a BMAD-style AI factory architecture for structured end-to-end application delivery.
• Used MCP, agent skills, and tool calling to improve reasoning quality, performance, and task execution reliability.
• Defined product vision, specs, roadmaps, and success metrics so AI agents could operate with clearer delivery guidance.

Projectz AI

Founder

Jan 2025 - Present

Leading an AI-native platform at the intersection of home design, project planning, and contractor matching.

• Ran customer research, surveys, and UX studies to identify unmet needs and shape the product direction.
• Used early beta adoption to validate demand signals, refine the moat, and surface the highest-value workflow problems.
• Built the platform end-to-end with JavaScript, React, TypeScript, Python, REST APIs, and backend/database architecture.

Hyatt (Gavin Heath)

AI Product Manager, AI SEO

Jul 2024

Owned the data-to-insight workflow for AI SEO and analytics, aligning architecture, governance, and downstream reporting.

• Led the flow from extraction through AWS ingestion, S3 storage, Snowflake staging, transformation, and ThoughtSpot consumption.
• Drove data-governance work including personal-data masking to support security and compliance.
• Created the product vision, PRD, and program increment planning for the machine-learning team.

Tesla

Technical Product Manager

Mar 2023 - Jun 2024

Owned internal manufacturing software and defect-tracking workflows used at significant operational scale.

• Owned frontend UX/UI for a vehicle defect tracking system used daily by 30K internal users.
• Led stakeholder alignment and prioritized Jira epics, features, and issues that drove a 6.25% increase in ROI.
• Designed an internal data-labeling solution that reduced bottlenecks and recurring defects while improving quality and evaluation insight.
• Built in-house observability dashboards, similar to Langfuse, to monitor model performance across quality, latency, and agent-workflow metrics.
• Led post-LLM data-labeling initiatives, using LLM-as-a-Judge to relabel customer-interaction outputs and improve classification quality.
• Analyzed customer feedback to uncover user pain points, translated findings into actionable engineering priorities, and helped shift product roadmaps to improve customer experience and satisfaction.

The Home Depot (Proven Method | American SW)

Data Product Manager

Mar 2023 - Sep 2023

Drove finance analytics products through SQL, metric design, backlog ownership, and executive-facing reporting.

• Wrote SQL powering a major finance dashboard and the ROI / OKR metrics behind it.
• Partnered with data engineers on backend pipeline design in Google BigQuery and metric definitions that drove decision-ready insights.
• Owned the Jira backlog, sprint ceremonies, dashboards, and reporting for directors and team leaders.
• Served as the liaison between engineering and directors across the digital sales organization, identifying pain points and delivering data solutions that supported business goals and key milestones.

Uva Mare

Founder

Jan 2016 - Jul 2022

Built and led a global import business alongside a data analytics consulting practice, combining client delivery, operational execution, and revenue growth across multiple business functions.

• Grew the business through customer success, retention, and management of more than 100 accounts.
• Scaled revenue from $75K to $392K while expanding solutions across finance, production, marketing, and investments.
• Built an analytics consulting dashboard offering that generated $10.8M in client value and supported over $85M in customer sales volume.