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Rion Angeles

Sr. Technical Program Manager

tl;dr — TPM that bridges the gap between Engineering, Product, Sales, and more.

Hey, I'm Rion — a Sr. Technical Program Manager and Solutions Engineer with 10+ years across solutions/software engineering, startups, operations, mobile analytics, hardware, supply chain, product operations, and manufacturing. Currently at Salesforce driving progress on programs across the entire org. Before this, I was at various startups ranging from "moonshot manufacturing" to mobile analytics, finance payment tech, and security robotics — at Google[x], Localytics, Recurly, and Cobalt Robotics respectively.

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Products

Real products. Real users.

  • Vectorcache.ai

    2025in progress

    Semantic caching layer for LLMs

    Reduces LLM API cost and latency by serving semantically similar prompts from cache. Engineered a vector similarity search pipeline delivering cache-hit responses in under 50ms — estimated 40%+ cost reduction and >95% latency reduction.

    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • Supabase
    • PostgreSQL
    • pgvector

  • Exityear

    2025live

    Financial modeling & FIRE planning

    High-fidelity financial modeling platform with Monte Carlo simulations and Git-style scenario branching for risk-free what-if testing. Launched as a Micro-SaaS with a client-side TypeScript engine for instant feedback on complex tax and withdrawal scenarios.

    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Supabase
    • Monte Carlo

Experience

  1. Salesforce

    · Full-time

    Sr. TPM, Office of the Chief Architect + Platform

    2019 – Present · San Francisco, CA

    • Functioning TPM and strategic partner for the OCA and Technology & Product leadership, embedding architectural standards across product delivery lifecycles across four cloud organizations.
    • Navigated high ambiguity to deliver program resolution for a login.salesforce.com service migration affecting $5.5B in revenue.
    • Managed the OCA Sales Engagement program, delivering direct architectural engagement to protect over $50M in Annual Contract Value (ACV).
    • TPM'd for an organization of 600 SEs and 17 Specialist teams; designed and scaled a Content and Knowledge asset strategy resulting in over $3M in saved productivity across onboarding, RFP, security, and compliance.
    • Designed and oversaw the SE Intern Future Force program, achieving ~90% FTE conversion across 3 years.

  2. Independent Product Development

    Founder

    2025 – Present · San Francisco, CA

    • Vectorcache.ai — designed the technical architecture and built a Python (FastAPI) + Supabase/PostgreSQL semantic caching layer for LLMs; engineered vector similarity search delivering cache-hit responses in under 50ms, with an estimated 40%+ cost reduction and >95% latency reduction.
    • Exityear — designed and built a high-fidelity financial modeling platform (Next.js, TypeScript) featuring Monte Carlo simulations and Git-style scenario branching; launched as a Micro-SaaS with a serverless architecture (Supabase).

  3. Cobalt Robotics

    · Full-time

    Sr. Technical Program Manager

    2016 – 2019 · San Mateo, CA

    • Grew and led an agile team of 10, expanding Cobalt into new geographies by hiring and training City Launchers.
    • Formalized Onboarding, Customer Success, Robot Specialist Operations, Field Operations, and geographic expansion programs.
    • Optimized back-end database and implemented the first iteration of internal business intelligence capabilities.
    • Managed supply chain ramp readiness with internal teams and external partners across material availability, cost, assembly, test, and capacity.

Project Graveyard

Projects that never quite made it. RIP.

  • Dash Daily

    2021

    A newsletter app to aggregate and deliver curated daily content to subscribers. Simple reader-first experience with clean typography and opt-in frequency controls.

  • Just Date

    2020

    An SMS-based dating app that removes app-store noise — connects people through text.

Skills

  • Technical Program Management
  • Product Operations
  • Solutions Engineering
  • Solutions Consulting (Post Sales)
  • Project Management
  • Python, FastAPI, Django
  • TypeScript, Next.js
  • SQL and Data Analysis
  • LLM / AI Infrastructure
  • Vector Databases
  • Operations
  • Presentation and Influence
  • Hardware/Software
  • SaaS / Micro-SaaS
  • Series Seed–C Startups
  • ERP, MRP, and MES Systems

Education

  • Cal State Long Beach

    B.S. Computer Science· 2008 – 2011

  • Northwestern University

    Select coursework, M.S. Predictive Analytics· 2015

Musings

Contact

San Francisco, CA · +1 714 504 2153

Email
rionangeles@gmail.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/rionangeles
GitHub
github.com/rionangeles