Clinton D'Souza

Product Manager at Resly

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Product ManagerStrategy • AI workflows

I turn product strategy and practical AI workflows into clear roadmaps, faster delivery, and shipped outcomes.

Product management across SaaS, fintech, event tech, gaming, and real estate, using AI daily to break down problems, shape requirements, prototype ideas, resolve product issues, and automate the work around delivery.

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StrategyAI workflowsRequirementsDeliveryStakeholdersTechnical depth

clintdza@gmail.com

Current Focus

Building Resly

Product Manager at Resly since March 2025, leading roadmap direction, requirements, and delivery while using AI to shape tickets, develop features, fix UI issues, create wireframes, and automate product operations.

AI across discovery and delivery
First roadmap in five years
Visibility across bugs and requests

Previous-role highlights

Selected wins from roles before Resly.

300k

Users scaled

Mastermind Sports

Daily active users

Mastermind Sports

#1 / #5

Product Hunt rank

Zuddl Studio

3% → 15%

Margin lift

Mastermind Sports

How I Work

I lead product work from strategy and prioritisation through delivery.

My strength is connecting roadmap strategy, stakeholder needs, engineering detail, and execution discipline so teams can move with clarity and confidence.

Shape the roadmap from business reality

I translate founder goals, market context, and internal pain points into a roadmap teams can rally around.

Tie product work to company direction
Prioritise around business impact
Create clarity before execution starts

Turn ambiguity into execution-ready requirements

I go beyond ideas and turn them into requirements, workflows, edge cases, and backlog structure engineering can actually ship.

Detailed product requirements
Backlog shaping and refinement
Cross-functional handoff clarity

Align stakeholders around product priorities

A big part of my work is helping teams understand priorities, tradeoffs, status, and what matters next in the product roadmap.

Stakeholder alignment and communication
Shared visibility into bugs and features
Clearer release expectations

Add technical depth without losing product judgment

Because I come from a developer background, I can support technical planning and keep product decisions grounded in implementation reality.

Technical collaboration with engineering
Feasible planning and tradeoff calls
Better translation between teams

Career Arc

A career built on increasing product scope, technical fluency, and cross-functional trust.

Each role added a new layer: commercial empathy, engineering context, product ownership, cross-functional leadership, and stronger judgment about what to build next.

Career chapters

From iOS development and business development into end-to-end product leadership.

Product domains

Depth across SaaS, fintech, event tech, gaming, and real estate products.

PM + Tech

Operating range

Comfort across strategy, requirements, stakeholder alignment, and delivery detail.

March 2025 – Present

Product Manager

Sole product lead, roadmap owner, stakeholder bridge, and de facto product owner across delivery and business visibility.

May 2024 – March 2025

Team Member

Managed inventory and shipping operations in a hands-on role while transitioning into the next stage of product leadership.

February 2022 – December 2023

Product Manager

Launched Zuddl Studio, led a 15-person cross-functional team, and managed backlog, lifecycle, and delivery in event tech.

February 2019 – February 2022

Product Manager

Owned the product portfolio and business analytics to scale users, engagement, margins, and market share.

May 2017 – January 2019

Product Manager & Product Analyst

Built travel and expense product capability, led a team of 11, and improved funnel conversion through analytics.

October 2016 – May 2017

Product Manager

Managed web and mobile products and improved weekly retention through user-journey-led redesign.

April 2016 – October 2016

iOS Developer

Built RESTful integrations, mobile payment workflows, and reusable engineering solutions in an app-development environment.

March 2015 – April 2016

Business Development Manager

Built customer relationships, generated leads, and developed commercial instincts that still influence how I think about products.

How I Build

Founder vision to execution-ready roadmapRequirements detail without losing strategic contextCross-functional stakeholder alignmentDelivery ownership and prioritisationStrong product-technical translationMetrics-led product decisions

Domains

Hospitality SaaS
Event technology
Fintech and travel
Gaming and sports engagement
Real estate technology

Tools & Methods

Product roadmapsJira and AtlassianRallyUser and UX researchWireframingSQL and analyticsAPI integrationsA/B testingAgile and Scrum

Selected Work

A portfolio built like case studies, not just resume bullets.

These are the product stories that best show strategy, execution discipline, and measurable outcomes across SaaS, fintech, event tech, gaming, and real estate.

Event technology / B2B SaaSFebruary 2022 – December 2023

Zuddl

Product Manager (Event Production)

Launched Zuddl Studio from inception, led a 15-person cross-functional team, and helped the product earn Product Hunt recognition.

Launched Zuddl Studio from inception
Product Hunt: #1 Product of the Day
Product Hunt: #5 Product of the Week

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Gaming / sports engagementFebruary 2019 – February 2022

Mastermind Sports

Product Manager (Betting / Casino / Gaming)

Scaled users from 20,000 to 300,000, moved DAU from 120 to 7,000, and improved margins from 3% to 15% while growing market share.

20,000 → 300,000 users
120 → 7,000 daily active users
3% → 15% monthly profit margins

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Fintech / corporate travel and expenseMay 2017 – January 2019

Happay

Product Manager & Product Analyst

Led a team of 11 to build Happay Travel and increased funnel conversion by around 20 percent through analytics and product insight.

Led a team of 11 on Happay Travel
~20% funnel conversion improvement
Built analytics dashboards and user-behaviour visibility

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Real estate technologyOctober 2016 – May 2017

HousingMan

Product Manager

Improved weekly user retention by 35 percent through user-journey mapping, incentives, and redesigning the product around what drove repeat usage.

35% increase in weekly user retention
Owned both web and mobile product surfaces
Mapped journeys and incentives to redesign product behaviour

View Case Study

Get In Touch

Need a PM who can connect strategy, practical AI, stakeholders, and shipping?

I help companies turn ambiguity into clear roadmaps and shipped outcomes, using AI to accelerate discovery, shape requirements, prototype ideas, resolve product issues, and keep delivery teams and stakeholders aligned.

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