LindseyRenken

Professional Experience

1. #1 · Mar 2021 – Present

   Airheart

   Technical Founder

   Built and scaled a consumer travel technology company from concept through production, fundraising, and significant organic adoption.

   • Defined and evolved the product strategy from travel intelligence into an AI travel agent platform designed to plan, book, monitor, and adapt trips on behalf of travelers.
   • Led product development of Atlas, an AI travel agent that plans trips, executes bookings, monitors fares and travel requirements, validates connections, and adapts itineraries as conditions change.
   • Designed Voyager, a collaborative trip-planning experience, and Catalogues, a curated knowledge layer that grounds AI agents in vetted travel expertise.
   • Architected the agent execution layer using Go, Ent, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, SvelteKit, and Temporal, enabling agents to perform durable, long-running workflows rather than single-turn interactions.
   • Built the agent tooling, evaluation harnesses, and observability systems used to measure and improve agent behavior.
   • Defined product requirements, interaction models, agent capabilities, system constraints, evaluation criteria, and roadmap priorities across the AI platform.
   • Personally shipped production software across the stack using modern AI-assisted development workflows including Claude and Codex.
   • Grew the platform to approximately 400K monthly users, with 6M+ organic visitors and 105K+ email subscribers.
   • Led product-led growth strategy and organic acquisition, turning a travel content and audience platform into an underlying knowledge asset for AI products.
   • Raised pre-seed funding and managed product, technical, and strategic priorities with a highly leveraged team.
   • Built and tested business models spanning travel intelligence, creator marketplaces, digital travel products, and AI subscription software.
   • Owned customer research, product positioning, pricing, monetization, partnerships, analytics, and go-to-market strategy.

   Selected impact: 400K monthly users · 6M+ organic visitors · 105K+ subscribers · AI agent platform · 0→1 product development

   Press coverage

   • Forbes
   • Washington Post
   • Skift
   • Business Traveler
   • CBS News Radio
   • iHeart Radio
   • BuiltIn Austin
   • CultureMap Austin
   • Travel Pulse
   • Johnny Jet
2. #2 · Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

   Observable

   Web & Data Consultant

   Consulted with SaaS companies on product analytics and business intelligence derived from customer behavior.

   • Translated raw customer interaction data into actionable product, growth, and business insights using SQL and Python.
   • Designed analytics systems that connected customer behavior to business outcomes.
   • Worked directly with founders and product teams to identify high-impact opportunities and convert ambiguous business questions into technical solutions.
3. #3 · Sep 2017 – Sep 2019

   ERC dEX

   Technical Founder · Product Marketing & Data Science

   Co-founded and built a decentralized trading platform for Ethereum tokens using the 0x protocol.

   • Led product strategy, growth, product marketing, analytics, and technical development for a live financial product operating in an emerging regulatory environment.
   • Grew adoption, retention, and revenue to more than $2M in annual GMV.
   • Translated complex blockchain infrastructure and financial mechanics into a usable consumer trading experience.
   • Used behavioral data to identify growth opportunities and improve product adoption and retention.
   • Navigated KYC and regulatory requirements while developing a product in a rapidly changing market.

   Selected impact: $2M+ annual GMV · Product strategy · Growth · Data science · Financial technology

4. #4 · Apr 2016 – Sep 2017

   Independent

   Full-Stack Web & Bioinformatics Consultant

   • Built software and data products for research and early-stage technology companies.
   • Developed features and infrastructure for Ruby on Rails and React applications.
   • Designed bioinformatics pipelines and custom analysis software for research clients.
   • Delivered publication-ready analytical workflows using Python, R, and Bash.
5. #5 · Oct 2015 – Apr 2016

   Illumina

   Software Engineer · BaseSpace

   • Developed automated validation and verification systems for bioinformatics applications on BaseSpace, Illumina’s cloud computing platform.
   • Built a testing framework spanning Linux and Windows compute environments, AWS, TeamCity, and Jenkins.
   • Worked across software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and genomic data-processing workflows.
6. #6 · Nov 2013 – Jan 2015

   Bioo Scientific

   Biomedical Engineer I

   Acquired by PerkinElmer for $63.5M in 2016.

   • Managed R&D for an impedance-based microRNA expression panel funded through an NSF Phase II grant.
   • Built Python software for primer design and custom target-enrichment panels.
   • Developed R, Python, and Bash bioinformatics pipelines for quality-control analysis.
   • Worked across hardware, assay development, software, and computational biology.

AI & Product Expertise

Selected Research