John Wu

Senior Product Manager building the enterprise AI platforms people run on. Now I want to build them where AI is done right.

Seattle, WAIn AI/ML since 2016Canadian, apologetically
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Who I am

A product manager who grew up in the AI industry as it grew up — and a Canadian who still says sorry when you bump into him.

Roots

Raised polite, wired relentless

I was born and raised in Canada, so like most Canadians, I'm apologetically nice, friendly, and generally pretty chill.

But I was also raised in a lower-class immigrant family, and that taught me something the laid-back exterior doesn't show: how to work hard, and with real intensity. My parents sacrificed everything so that I'd have opportunities they never did. I don't take that lightly — it's the reason I show up the way I do.

The spark

Finding AI at McGill

I studied Computer Engineering at McGill University from 2014 to 2019, and that's where I first started to dabble in AI. This was back when getting a YOLO model to tell a cat from a dog was considered groundbreaking.

I learned the fundamentals from the ground up — the math, the models, the mistakes — and I've had a front-row seat to the field ever since, from linear regression to basic neural networks, all the way to modern LLMs.

Home, eventually

Seattle had other plans

I moved to Seattle in 2019, straight out of McGill, for a job at Microsoft. The plan was simple: stay two years, then head back home to Canada.

It's 2026 and I'm still here. I stayed because the opportunities never stopped coming — especially in this tech scene, where the next interesting problem is always one conversation away. I now have a green card, a house, a dog, and a career I couldn't have built anywhere else. Turns out I've been quietly living the American dream, and I'm glad the plan changed.

Off the clock

Permanently curious

Outside of work I'm in permanent curiosity mode — playing with the latest tech frameworks, falling down history, economics, and geography rabbit holes, or listening to business podcasts at slightly unreasonable speeds.

I protect one to two hours of exercise every day: cardio, weightlifting, or a pickup sport. And to make sure I actually have a social life, you'll usually find me at a Seattle craft brewery, hazy IPA in hand, hanging out with friends.

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Experience

Seven years shipping the enterprise AI/ML platforms that large organizations actually run on — with a throughline of security, access control, and safe adoption at scale.

Senior Product Manager, Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft
Oct 2024 – Present · Seattle, WA

Own the fine-tuning experience across Microsoft Foundry — the platform enterprises use to customize frontier and open models.

  • Grew fine-tuning job creation conversion +220% (5%→16%), cut user error rate 71% (17%→5%), and doubled weekly active users (4K→8K) by redesigning the creation flow and fixing reliability defects.
  • Enabled enterprise capabilities (virtual network support, DNS support, customer-managed keys, managed identities) to unblock Foundry GA and allow enterprise customer migrations.
  • Launched serverless fine-tuning models across multiple providers (Microsoft, OpenAI, Mistral, Alibaba, Meta, and more), coordinating with external partners, legal & compliance deaprtments, and business teams.
  • Maintained 95%+ uptime of allocated customer GPU capacity (peaking at 98.8%) through proactive deficit monitoring, automated leaked-node recovery, agentic triaging, and capacity coordination.
Senior Product Manager
Domino Data Lab
Jan 2023 – Oct 2024 · Seattle, WA

Enterprise MLOps platform for regulated, security-conscious data-science teams.

  • Built an MLflow-based experiment tracking feature, which has been adopted by 30%+ of the total customer base.
  • Delivered ML pipeline capabilities, which enabled workflow orchestration and contributed to $3M+ in net new ARR.
  • Released an AI gateway for enabling secured connections to external LLM providers, including OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • Enabled users to build custom Generative AI applications by releasing multiple code samples for fine-tuning open-source models, leveraging tools including Hugging Face, PyTorch, Ray Tune, and NVIDIA NeMo Toolkit.
Product Manager 2, Azure Machine Learning Platform
Microsoft
Sep 2019 – Jan 2023 · Seattle, WA

Platform admin, identity, and networking for Azure ML (PM 1 → PM 2).

  • Built and optimized the admin experiences for managing compute, virtual networks, and identities in the Azure ML Studio UI, growing it from initial release to over 30,000 monthly active users.
  • Improved data scientist productivity by enabling custom dashboards using tracked MLflow metrics, auto-logging of hardware utilization metrics, and serverless training, which contributed to a 30+ point increase in the net promoter score (NPS) of the Azure ML service.
  • Enabled role-based access control for data plane assets in Azure ML, which unblocked adoption for 1000+ enterprise customers on Azure's managed account list.
  • Integrated Microsoft's AI supercomputer into Azure ML, used internally by Microsoft Research teams for large-scale, globally-distributed training jobs that execute on Nvidia's largest GPUs.
  • Received promotion offer to Senior Product Manager (as a retention offer).
Product Manager Intern, Azure Batch AI Service
Microsoft
May 2018 – Aug 2018 · Seattle, WA

First taste of AI infrastructure product management.

  • Authored the design specification for adding hardware utilization metrics to the Azure Batch AI service, and created public tutorials for distributed training using TensorFlow and Horovod.
  • Earned a returning full-time offer one level above entry.
McGill University
B.Eng., Computer Engineering · Montreal, Canada
Sep 2014 – May 2019
  • Co-President, McGill Artificial Intelligence Society (2017–2019) — created a 12-week intro-to-ML bootcamp (30 AI applications built) and organized McGill's first AI hackathon (150 participants, now hosted annually).
  • Cansbridge Fellowship — $6,000 award to 1 of 15 Canadian students (0.5% acceptance) for leadership and entrepreneurial capabilities.
  • Two-time 1st place, McGill Engineering Design Competition (2016, 2018).
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Why Anthropic

The honest version.

We are living through a once-in-a-generation shift, and ten years from now, I want to look back and say I helped shape the AI revolution—and did it in a way that left the world better off. Plenty of companies slap a "responsible AI" label on their landing page, but Anthropic actually lives it. You've built an authentic culture dedicated to steering AI safely, all while backing it up with a formidable product moat. If any team is going to pull off safe, beneficial AI at scale, it's Anthropic, and I want in.

The track record

Experience-wise, I've been in the AI/ML trenches since 2016, back when getting a YOLO model to reliably distinguish a dog from a cat felt like black magic. Since those early days, I co-founded the AI Club at my alma mater, McGill University, spent time in the startup world at Domino Data Lab, and helped build the Azure ML platform from the ground up at Microsoft. Most recently, I've been leading product efforts for Microsoft Foundry, scaling cloud AI infrastructure for global enterprise adoption.

The fit

Over the last decade, I've learned what it takes to build AI infrastructure—and, more importantly, what enterprises actually need to deploy models safely, securely, and at scale across multi-cloud environments. The Multi-Cloud Trust & Safety role sits right at the intersection of where the industry is going and where I thrive: solving complex, high-stakes platform challenges so customers can innovate with confidence.

The human

I take the work seriously, but I don't take myself too seriously. I build strong cross-functional partnerships, get things done in fast-moving environments, and like to keep things genuine and fun along the way. I'd love the chance to bring that blend of hands-on platform experience, enterprise context, and enthusiasm to the team at Anthropic.