SBSean Block

About

I build products and help lead the teams that build them.

I’m Sean, a product engineer. I founded Pinboard.ai, where I work on everything from product decisions and design to architecture and code: a Next.js front end, FastAPI and Postgres, and the AI agents underneath.

By day I’m the director of product management at Applied AI Technologies in Albany, NY. I’ve spent six-plus years on multi-state government SaaS valued at $2M+ (court case management, licensing and permitting), and I run the PMO behind seven-plus concurrent engagements and about 25 people.

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years building govtech SaaS

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concurrent client engagements

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people across the PMO

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states live on ClerkXpress

The day job

What running the shop looks like.

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Established the PMO

Applied AI Technologies · 2025–present

Defined governance standards, risk-and-issue frameworks, portfolio reporting cadences and delivery processes now used across seven-plus concurrent client engagements and a 25-person distributed team of PMs, engineers and overseas contractors.

  • 7+ engagements
  • ~25 people
  • Director
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Scoped, priced and pitched the next year of work

Six initiatives · four state agencies + two commercial products

Authored proposals, RFIs, cost estimates, resource plans and solution architectures across six new IT initiatives, all presented to C-level stakeholders. Currently building the demo behind one live state bid.

  • 6 initiatives
  • 4 state clients
  • C-level
03

Unified a fragmented delivery organization

Across the Applied AI portfolio

Consolidated workflows scattered across notepads, Confluence, spreadsheets, Redmine and Jira into one system for time entry, tasks, tickets and notes. Stood up the company’s internship pipeline (recruiting, onboarding, mentoring) as part of the same overhaul.

  • 5 tools → 1
  • Internship program

Credentials

Degrees and certifications.

  • MBALouisiana State University3.9 GPA · 2025
  • B.S.Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteIT & Web Science · 2022
  • PMPProject Management InstituteActive through Jul 2027
  • AWSAWS Certified Cloud PractitionerActive through Feb 2028

Toolkit

What I reach for.

Engineering

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • pgvector
  • AI agents & MCP
  • Tauri
  • Node.js
  • AWS
  • Playwright
  • Vitest

Product & strategy

  • Roadmapping
  • Stakeholder management
  • OKRs
  • Backlog management
  • Product analytics
  • A/B testing
  • KPI tracking

Delivery

  • Agile & Scrum
  • Risk mitigation
  • Capacity planning
  • Sprint & release planning
  • Delivery metrics
  • Retrospectives

Tools

  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Linear
  • Notion
  • Miro
  • Smartsheet
  • MS Project
  • Slack
  • Teams