Product Manager to Forward Deployed Engineer: The Pivot

Hi, I’m Hamza. I’m a founder by day and a professor by night, working at the intersection of Agents and Product Design.

I started Traversaal.ai with a simple goal: to build scalable AI products for startups and enterprises that integrate smoothly into existing systems while staying flexible and cost efficient.

We’ve had the opportunity to work with Fortune 100 companies, and the lessons from those experiences are woven directly into this course.

This course brings together everything I’ve learned in practice, along with the material I teach across universities.

I still spend a lot of time writing code, you can check out my GitHub.

I also share my thoughts and learnings on how organizations should think about moving demos to production grade scale on, The Production Gap: Substack.

Meet Travis Jepson, a product and technology leader with over 12 years of experience building products, leading cross-functional initiatives, and translating complex problems into real-world solutions.

His background spans Stanford Health Care, product design, engineering collaboration, and entrepreneurship.

Beyond his professional work:

→ Built and launched Streamline Swimming, an iOS application for athletes and coaches.

→ Brings hands-on experience across product strategy, UX, engineering, and delivery.

→ Completed advanced training in Agentic AI System Design for Product Managers.

→ Brings a product-first perspective to the evolving role of Forward Deployed Engineering.