Gerald Dagher
Senior Product Manager • Agentic AI Platform • Enterprise AI, Reliability & Operational Intelligence
Professional Summary
Product leader building the systems that make AI agents production-grade. Own product strategy for IBM’s Agentic AI Platform: the agent control plane and orchestration layer spanning agent interoperability (MCP, A2A), evaluation frameworks, and a shared context layer, enabling AI agents for Terraform and infrastructure workflows. Built the reliability, observability, and governance systems behind a nine-figure ARR cloud portfolio across HashiCorp and IBM. Recognized at IBM Tech 2026, IBM’s invitation-only honor for its top technical talent. Deep expertise in AI/ML/Platform product management, federated data architecture, and FedRAMP High / SOC 2 / ISO 27001 environments.
Experience
Senior Product Manager, Agentic AI Platform
IBM (HashiCorp, acquired by IBM in 2025) • Remote • May 2026 – Present
- Brought in by leadership to reset a strategically critical agentic AI platform initiative; resetting product strategy, market positioning, and execution roadmap in my first 90 days.
- Defining the enterprise agent control plane: the layer that registers, orchestrates, governs, and observes AI agents. The strategy directly targets the three reasons agent pilots fail to reach production: evaluation gaps, governance friction, and reliability.
- Setting architecture direction for multi-agent orchestration and interoperability: MCP-based tool integration, agent-to-agent (A2A) communication, agent registry and lifecycle management, and orchestration patterns designed for reuse across product teams.
- Establishing agent evaluation frameworks (offline eval sets, online quality metrics) and tiered autonomy governance (trust boundaries, guardrails, human-in-the-loop approval gates) so agents earn expanded autonomy through demonstrated reliability.
- Driving agentic infrastructure automation: AI agents that plan, validate, and safely execute Terraform and other core workflows across the HashiCorp Cloud Platform portfolio, applying a decade of change-risk and reliability discipline to agent-driven change in production systems.
- Own the shared context layer: unified, governed context architecture (context engineering) that grounds agents and AI workflows in consistent organizational knowledge; the foundation for agent accuracy and safe tool use at scale.
- Refocused delivery from 12 engineering teams to 2 surgically focused teams to concentrate investment on the highest-leverage platform capabilities and restore execution velocity.
Senior Product Manager & Product Lead, Platform Reliability & Operational Intelligence
HashiCorp, then IBM post-acquisition • Remote • Apr 2022 – Apr 2026
Promoted: Product Manager → Senior Product Manager (Jul 2024) → Product Lead (Sep 2025)
- Led 0-to-1 strategy and execution of an executive-sponsored, AI-powered Enterprise Reliability Platform targeting 99.99% availability and a new enterprise revenue tier within a nine-figure ARR portfolio.
- Designed an AI/ML change-risk model with precision/recall-optimized success criteria, projected to accelerate low-complexity deployments 20–30% while protecting high-risk releases.
- Architected a 3-layer federated data platform unifying 10+ enterprise systems (Datadog, incident.io, GitHub) into a shared reliability intelligence schema supporting multi-tier SLA orchestration.
- Modernized CI/CD guardrails and automated validation, enabling 70% faster deployments; delivered dependency-aware disaster recovery reducing recovery time by 80%+.
- Shifted 15–20% of engineering capacity from reactive firefighting to proactive work through automated context marshaling and continuous verification (synthetic testing) programs.
- Built a semantic PII analysis platform adopted across the GRC organization, saving hundreds of person-hours annually; partnered with Security and Customer Trust on FedRAMP High, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 readiness.
- Established portfolio operating mechanisms (service tiering, executive scorecards, ARR-linked risk reviews) and mentored PMs across 10+ globally distributed teams.
Product Manager
Sentry Data Systems, acquired by Craneware Group • Remote • Sep 2019 – Apr 2022
- Led product strategy for pharmacy compliance and drug purchasing analytics SaaS serving 10,000+ hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics in HIPAA/CMS-regulated environments.
- Delivered workflow modernization and compliance automation improving client satisfaction 23% and operational efficiency 37%; improved retention to 89% through engagement-driven prioritization (DAU/MAU, usage patterns).
- Coordinated cross-functional delivery across engineering, architecture, and QA to reduce time-to-compliance and strengthen audit readiness.
Senior Business Analyst | Network Operations Manager
AT&T • Fort Lauderdale, FL & Statesville, NC • Sep 2014 – Sep 2019
- Improved NPS 22% and drove 19% operational efficiency gains leading 20-technician field operations across OSP and central office environments; delivered 8% cost reduction and 12% service efficiency improvement across U-verse and DirecTV.
- Built MSOC-based operational controls and training programs; influenced multi-million-dollar technology investment decisions through hardware, network, and service-risk evaluation.
Recognition & Education
IBM Tech 2026 • Invitation-only recognition of IBM’s top technical talent: fewer than 2,000 honorees selected annually from a global workforce of roughly 287,000 (top <1%).
Master of Science, Management Information Systems • Nova Southeastern University • 2013
Skills
Agentic AI Platforms
- Agent Orchestration
- Agent Control Plane
- Multi-Agent Systems
- Agent Interoperability (MCP, A2A)
- Agent Evals & Evaluation Frameworks
- Context Engineering / Enterprise Context Layer
- Agent Observability
- Guardrails & Autonomy Governance
- Human-in-the-Loop Design
AI/ML Product Management
- LLM-Powered Product Development
- AIOps
- MLOps
- Model Drift Detection
- Probabilistic Success Criteria (Precision/Recall)
- Responsible AI & AI Governance
- Explainability
Platform & Reliability
- Platform-as-a-Product
- Developer Experience (DX)
- API Product Management
- SRE (SLIs/SLOs, Error Budgets)
- Resilience Engineering (Chaos Engineering, Continuous Verification, Dependency-Aware Recovery)
- Observability (Metrics/Logs/Traces)
- Incident & Change Management
- Federated Data Architecture
Compliance & Risk
- FedRAMP High
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
- HIPAA/CMS
- Data Privacy (PII / Semantic Analysis)
- GRC Partnership
- Policy as Code
Leadership & Practice
- 0-to-1 Product Development
- Product Vision & Strategy
- Executive Communication
- Portfolio Governance
- OKRs
- PM Mentorship
- Roadmap & Prioritization
- Jobs-to-be-Done
- Agile/Scrum
Platforms & Tools
- AWS
- Azure
- HashiCorp / HCP (Terraform, Vault, Consul, Nomad, Waypoint, Packer)
- Datadog
- PagerDuty
- incident.io
- Snowflake
- Temporal
- Jira
- Confluence