Michael Jastram

I help companies turn ideas into successful products faster — the complex physical kind, like cars, machines, and medical devices, where hundreds of specialists each own a piece and someone has to keep the whole thing moving toward what the customer actually wants.

I come at that from an unusually broad path: an ocean engineering degree from MIT, ten years in the US spanning online marketing to computational drug discovery, and roles from software developer to systems engineer at companies like Google, Volkswagen, and Mobileye. That breadth lets me trace the line from a single design decision all the way to customer value — and quickly see where things get stuck.

I call this approach Product Velocity, coming as a book from MIT Press.