Todd Blocksom

Founder and Principal Consultant Seattle, WA

• Personal AI research and development. Systematic multi-year research into LLMs, agent frameworks, and orchestration systems.
• Ava, personal AI assistant. Designed and deployed a personal AI with cross-channel memory, real-time voice (Gemini Live and Claude), and home automation, built on privacy-first, local-first principles.
• Totem Grid (client engagement, 2025). Led product definition for a mobile peer-to-peer mesh platform for offline-first communication. Live deployment at Burning Man with more than one hundred users testing geo-located messaging, photos, and peer-to-peer data sync in a zero-connectivity environment.

Senior Technical Program Manager, Google Cloud Seattle, WA

• Data Analytics UI platform. Sole TPM for the Data Analytics UI organization, grown to 65 plus cross-functional members, unifying user experience across all Google Cloud data analytics products.
• System unification. Led the creation of a shared design system and standardized APIs, reducing front-end engineering for common UI components by eighty percent.
• Accessibility and revenue. Drove VPAT certification for the Google Cloud Data Analytics suite, clearing government and public-sector contracts with potential revenue exceeding two billion dollars.

Senior Engineering Program Manager, Siri Cupertino, CA

• Siri Data Privacy. Spearheaded the Siri Data Privacy program, redesigning end-to-end ML pipelines to create privacy-safe training signals and increasing data availability fourfold.
• Siri in the Car. Owned the Siri in the Car program. Led the revamp of the CarPlay messaging flow, driving a 300 percent year-over-year increase in in-car Siri usage by reducing task completion time by seventy percent and doubling task success rate. Led the Siri integration for Do Not Disturb While Driving (iOS 11); co-inventor on the Operational Safety Mode patent.
• Smarthome. Owned the Smarthome program. Drove a greater-than-fifty-percent reduction in HomePod mini bill of materials by defining Siri software requirements that enabled a more efficient hardware architecture.

Principal Product Manager, Automotive Seattle, WA

• Dragon Drive AI platform. Led the product roadmap for Dragon Drive, Nuance's automotive voice AI platform (now Cerence). The technology ships in over 200 million vehicles today and powers the Mercedes-Benz User Experience (MBUX), with integrations across BMW, Audi, Volkswagen Group, Toyota, Ford, GM, and Hyundai.
• Technical evangelism. Drove multi-million-dollar deals across Asia, Europe, and North America as the primary technical evangelist for automotive AI and machine learning.