Todd Blocksom

Lynnwood, WA · 425-829-5352 · toddblocksom@gmail.com · LinkedIn

Senior Product Leader | Personal AI Agents & Orchestration

Product leader at the frontier of conversational AI and intelligent systems, from early agentic prototypes at Microsoft to Siri at Apple and platform strategy at Google Cloud. Builder-first, technically fluent, and currently deep in modern LLM orchestration. I specialize in turning frontier AI capabilities into shipped, high-trust product experiences.

Core Competencies

Product Strategy & Vision Context-Aware Systems AI/ML Product Systems Voice & Conversational AI Platform Execution

Professional Experience

47north Technologies
Founder & Principal Consultant
Seattle, WA · Mar 2022 - Present
  • Totem Grid (Client Engagement, 2025): Leading cross-functional definition and execution for a mobile peer-to-peer mesh routing platform to facilitate local-first communication & routing. Exploring the intersection of decentralized infrastructure and autonomous agent capabilities to solve connectivity and commerce challenges for large scale events.
  • Advanced Agent Research: Conducted a deep-dive into autonomous agent architectures, including multi-agent coordination, persistent memory, and the evolving LLM tooling ecosystem.
  • System Integration: Experimenting with modern agent frameworks to prototype "Chief of Staff" use cases, integrating disparate services via custom tool-calling scripts.
Google
Senior TPM, Google Cloud
Seattle, WA · Aug 2018 - Mar 2022
  • Data Analytics UI Platform: Co-founded the Data Analytics UI organization, aligning 65+ cross-functional members across more than a dozen analytics products.
  • System Unification: Led creation of a shared design system with standardized APIs, reducing front-end engineering effort by 80%.
  • Orchestration at Scale: Drove large-scale platform unification work, balancing complex technical constraints, execution risk, and cross-organizational dependencies to unblock $2B+ in revenue.
Apple
Senior Engineering Program Manager, Siri
Cupertino, CA · Oct 2016 - Aug 2018
  • Data Privacy & ML: Spearheaded the Siri Data Privacy program, redesigning end-to-end pipelines to create privacy-safe signals for machine learning, increasing data availability for training by 4x.
  • Contextual Intelligence: Led the Siri CarPlay messaging overhaul (300% usage increase) by optimizing how the assistant understands user context and handles voice-driven task completion, reducing task completion time by 70%.
  • Autonomous Systems: Served as the Siri product lead for Do Not Disturb While Driving (iOS 11), a context-aware automation system which greatly influenced the Focus feature in subsequent iOS releases.
Nuance
Principal Product Manager, Automotive
Seattle, WA · Jul 2013 - Oct 2016
  • Dragon Drive AI Platform Strategy: Led the product roadmap for Nuance Dragon Drive, a voice AI platform deployed with major automotive OEM partners (BMW, VW Group, Mercedes, etc.).
  • Client & R&D Bridge: Served as the primary technical bridge between global automotive clients and R&D teams, translating complex requirements into platform-level features and ML roadmaps.
  • Technical Evangelism: Served as a primary technical liaison and evangelist for automotive AI/ML R&D, contributing to multi-million-dollar deals across Asia, Europe, and North America.

Earlier experience includes product & program management roles at RealNetworks, Tweddle Group, Loudeye/Muze, and Microsoft, spanning automotive, streaming media, mobile music, advertising, and Microsoft Office.

Education

B.S., Computer Science - Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Skills & Technologies

LLM APIs · Multi-Agent Systems · GCP · AWS · Agile/Scrum · SQL · Jira · API Integration · Data Pipelines · Voice Interfaces · SDLC