Destination / the work record

Résumé

A career built from operations outward: regulated products, platform reliability, and now the systems that make AI agents production-grade.

Gerald Dagher

Senior Product ManagerAgentic AI PlatformEnterprise AI, Reliability & Operational Intelligence

Professional Summary

Product leader building the systems that make AI agents production-grade. Own product strategy for IBM’s Agentic AI Platform: the agent control plane and orchestration layer spanning agent interoperability (MCP, A2A), evaluation frameworks, and a shared context layer, enabling AI agents for Terraform and infrastructure workflows. Built the reliability, observability, and governance systems behind a nine-figure ARR cloud portfolio across HashiCorp and IBM. Recognized at IBM Tech 2026, IBM’s invitation-only honor for its top technical talent. Deep expertise in AI/ML/Platform product management, federated data architecture, and FedRAMP High / SOC 2 / ISO 27001 environments.

Experience

Senior Product Manager, Agentic AI Platform

IBM (HashiCorp, acquired by IBM in 2025) Remote • May 2026 – Present

  • Brought in by leadership to reset a strategically critical agentic AI platform initiative; resetting product strategy, market positioning, and execution roadmap in my first 90 days.
  • Defining the enterprise agent control plane: the layer that registers, orchestrates, governs, and observes AI agents. The strategy directly targets the three reasons agent pilots fail to reach production: evaluation gaps, governance friction, and reliability.
  • Setting architecture direction for multi-agent orchestration and interoperability: MCP-based tool integration, agent-to-agent (A2A) communication, agent registry and lifecycle management, and orchestration patterns designed for reuse across product teams.
  • Establishing agent evaluation frameworks (offline eval sets, online quality metrics) and tiered autonomy governance (trust boundaries, guardrails, human-in-the-loop approval gates) so agents earn expanded autonomy through demonstrated reliability.
  • Driving agentic infrastructure automation: AI agents that plan, validate, and safely execute Terraform and other core workflows across the HashiCorp Cloud Platform portfolio, applying a decade of change-risk and reliability discipline to agent-driven change in production systems.
  • Own the shared context layer: unified, governed context architecture (context engineering) that grounds agents and AI workflows in consistent organizational knowledge; the foundation for agent accuracy and safe tool use at scale.
  • Refocused delivery from 12 engineering teams to 2 surgically focused teams to concentrate investment on the highest-leverage platform capabilities and restore execution velocity.

Senior Product Manager & Product Lead, Platform Reliability & Operational Intelligence

HashiCorp, then IBM post-acquisition Remote • Apr 2022 – Apr 2026

Promoted: Product Manager → Senior Product Manager (Jul 2024) → Product Lead (Sep 2025)

  • Led 0-to-1 strategy and execution of an executive-sponsored, AI-powered Enterprise Reliability Platform targeting 99.99% availability and a new enterprise revenue tier within a nine-figure ARR portfolio.
  • Designed an AI/ML change-risk model with precision/recall-optimized success criteria, projected to accelerate low-complexity deployments 20–30% while protecting high-risk releases.
  • Architected a 3-layer federated data platform unifying 10+ enterprise systems (Datadog, incident.io, GitHub) into a shared reliability intelligence schema supporting multi-tier SLA orchestration.
  • Modernized CI/CD guardrails and automated validation, enabling 70% faster deployments; delivered dependency-aware disaster recovery reducing recovery time by 80%+.
  • Shifted 15–20% of engineering capacity from reactive firefighting to proactive work through automated context marshaling and continuous verification (synthetic testing) programs.
  • Built a semantic PII analysis platform adopted across the GRC organization, saving hundreds of person-hours annually; partnered with Security and Customer Trust on FedRAMP High, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 readiness.
  • Established portfolio operating mechanisms (service tiering, executive scorecards, ARR-linked risk reviews) and mentored PMs across 10+ globally distributed teams.

Product Manager

Sentry Data Systems, acquired by Craneware Group Remote • Sep 2019 – Apr 2022

  • Led product strategy for pharmacy compliance and drug purchasing analytics SaaS serving 10,000+ hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics in HIPAA/CMS-regulated environments.
  • Delivered workflow modernization and compliance automation improving client satisfaction 23% and operational efficiency 37%; improved retention to 89% through engagement-driven prioritization (DAU/MAU, usage patterns).
  • Coordinated cross-functional delivery across engineering, architecture, and QA to reduce time-to-compliance and strengthen audit readiness.

Senior Business Analyst | Network Operations Manager

AT&T Fort Lauderdale, FL & Statesville, NC • Sep 2014 – Sep 2019

  • Improved NPS 22% and drove 19% operational efficiency gains leading 20-technician field operations across OSP and central office environments; delivered 8% cost reduction and 12% service efficiency improvement across U-verse and DirecTV.
  • Built MSOC-based operational controls and training programs; influenced multi-million-dollar technology investment decisions through hardware, network, and service-risk evaluation.

Recognition & Education

IBM Tech 2026Invitation-only recognition of IBM’s top technical talent: fewer than 2,000 honorees selected annually from a global workforce of roughly 287,000 (top <1%).

Master of Science, Management Information SystemsNova Southeastern University • 2013

Skills

Agentic AI Platforms

  • Agent Orchestration
  • Agent Control Plane
  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • Agent Interoperability (MCP, A2A)
  • Agent Evals & Evaluation Frameworks
  • Context Engineering / Enterprise Context Layer
  • Agent Observability
  • Guardrails & Autonomy Governance
  • Human-in-the-Loop Design

AI/ML Product Management

  • LLM-Powered Product Development
  • AIOps
  • MLOps
  • Model Drift Detection
  • Probabilistic Success Criteria (Precision/Recall)
  • Responsible AI & AI Governance
  • Explainability

Platform & Reliability

  • Platform-as-a-Product
  • Developer Experience (DX)
  • API Product Management
  • SRE (SLIs/SLOs, Error Budgets)
  • Resilience Engineering (Chaos Engineering, Continuous Verification, Dependency-Aware Recovery)
  • Observability (Metrics/Logs/Traces)
  • Incident & Change Management
  • Federated Data Architecture

Compliance & Risk

  • FedRAMP High
  • SOC 2
  • ISO 27001
  • HIPAA/CMS
  • Data Privacy (PII / Semantic Analysis)
  • GRC Partnership
  • Policy as Code

Leadership & Practice

  • 0-to-1 Product Development
  • Product Vision & Strategy
  • Executive Communication
  • Portfolio Governance
  • OKRs
  • PM Mentorship
  • Roadmap & Prioritization
  • Jobs-to-be-Done
  • Agile/Scrum

Platforms & Tools

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • HashiCorp / HCP (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Waypoint, Packer)
  • Datadog
  • PagerDuty
  • incident.io
  • Snowflake
  • Temporal
  • Jira
  • Confluence