Resume
Amir Dallal
Product Leader · AI in Production & Connected Platforms
Product leader building connected platforms from zero to enterprise, across three startup-to-acquisition journeys. At Siemens I owned strategy and roadmap for Toggled iQ while leading a distributed engineering team across the US and Spain, staying hands-on through technical sales, QA, and Tier 3 support - shipping GenAI in production on a platform spanning 1,000+ buildings. I now run an independent practice building websites, commerce storefronts, and AI-embedded tooling for small businesses while I look for my next senior product role. I build working products with AI daily, and believe technology should be transparent, trustworthy, and designed for the people who depend on it.
Selected Impact
Lighting App to Building Platform
40,000+ devices · 2x+ SaaS revenue YoY · 100x user growth
Expanded a commercial lighting controls app into a comprehensive smart building platform spanning environmental monitoring, energy metering, leak detection, and occupancy - growing to 1,000+ buildings and 40,000+ devices with 2x+ SaaS revenue growth year over year and 100x user growth.
AI in Production
Tagging accuracy ~60% → 95% · onboarding days to hours
Designed and prototyped a hybrid semantic normalization engine - regex plus a local LLM handling roughly 80% of the work, with a cloud model reserved for the hard cases - that classifies heterogeneous device data to unified schemas (BRICK, Project Haystack, W3C WoT), then hardened it into production with engineering and validated classifications against real buildings. Tagging accuracy went from about 60% to 95%, onboarding from days to hours, and cloud token costs fell roughly 80%.
Full-Stack Product Function
Distributed team (US & Spain) · sales · QA · fulfillment · Tier 3
Led a distributed engineering team across the US and Spain - task assignment, backlog prioritization, sprint planning, and scope calls across backend, mobile, web, and edge gateway - and ran every other function a lean product organization needs: pre-sales and technical sales, all demos from installer walkthroughs to executive presentations, all QA and release management, edge gateway and third-party device fulfillment, and Tier 3 technical support.
Frictionless Onboarding
Contractor-only process converted to self-service
Redesigned a complex BLE mesh commissioning workflow into a guided mobile experience - up to 90% less installer setup time than competing commissioning systems, and a contractor-only process converted to self-service.
Validated Real-World Outcomes
U.S. DOE pilot with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab · 8+ years enterprise retention
Supported a U.S. Department of Energy pilot with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab achieving up to 75% energy reduction in commercial deployments. Sustained 8+ years of enterprise customer retention through continuous, evidence-based product evolution.
Work History
Independent Product & Technology Consultant
Amir Dallal, Independent Practice
Sep 2026 – Present · Portland, OR
Independent practice for small businesses: websites, e-commerce storefronts, AI-embedded internal tooling, and smart home design - the same zero-to-one product work, at small-business scale.
- Build and host e-commerce storefronts on Orchard, the multi-tenant commerce platform I architected and operate - merchants run their own products, orders, refunds, inventory and reporting from a self-serve admin, while I own the storefront, the integrations, and ongoing maintenance.
- Design and ship marketing sites and web applications end to end: information architecture, visual design, build, performance, accessibility, structured data, and deployment.
- Embed AI where it removes real work rather than where it demos well - estimating and quoting tools, back-office automation, document and data extraction, and internal assistants grounded in a business's own content.
- Design, install and support smart home and security systems for homes and small businesses: device selection across vendors, network and protocol architecture, automation logic, and configuration - informed by commercial building-automation product work and a personal deployment of 60+ devices from 15+ vendors.
Senior Product Manager
CANDI → Altair → SiemensToggled iQ | Altair Engineering (now Siemens)
Dec 2019 – Sep 2026 · Remote (Portland, OR)
Lead Product Owner for a full-stack B2B/B2B2C smart building platform across web, mobile, edge, and cloud - full ownership of strategy, execution, and every operational function of a lean product organization.
Solutions Architect
CANDI → AltairAltair Engineering (now Siemens)
Dec 2017 – Dec 2019 · Oakland, CA
Enterprise IoT integrations across HVAC/BMS, sensing, metering, and building analytics - customer-facing technical authority through the full sales and deployment lifecycle.
Career Break, Travel & Small Business
Independent
Jun 2014 – Dec 2017 · India → Oakland, CA
Left Cisco to co-found a music and content startup, chose to stop it after a stretch travelling in India, and spent the next few years outside technology before coming back to product on my own terms.
System Engineer, Innovation Department
Jungo → CiscoCisco / Jungo
Dec 2010 – Jun 2014 · Israel
Connected-device and smart home prototypes in Cisco's CTO Innovation group - work that directly influenced global product roadmap direction, after starting in embedded QA on Jungo's automotive connectivity stack.
Technical Team Lead & QA Engineer
Followap → NeustarNeustar / Followap
Jul 2005 – Apr 2010 · Israel
Carrier-grade mobile messaging and presence services delivered to millions of users at operators like Vodafone, Hutchison, and Telecom Italia.
Ventures & Personal Projects
Built and operated in parallel with the day job - proof of range, speed, and the ability to pick up a new domain and ship in it.
Orchard - Multi-Tenant Commerce Platform
3,500+ production merges · 86-integration marketplace
Architected and built a production-deployed, multi-tenant commerce control plane from scratch to run my own DTC brands on one shared admin and operational stack. Hosts third-party operator brands and exposes a public REST API and typed SDK for developers. Directed an autonomous AI development model - specialized agents handling implementation, code review, and release gating.
Personal Smart Home Lab
60+ devices · 15+ vendors · historic home
Operate 60+ connected devices across 15+ vendors and multiple protocols with custom Home Assistant integrations - a hands-on proving ground for the integration and reliability challenges of enterprise IoT.
AI Health Tool
OpenAI + Anthropic APIs
Personal AI application that interprets lab results and surfaces actionable health insights - practical fluency in LLM integration and multi-tool orchestration.
Residential Property Operations
24-unit building · Airbnb Superhost
Live-in manager of a 24-unit residential building - Buildium for tenant and contractor workflows plus smart laundry, security cameras, and IoT monitoring.
Core Competencies
Product
Platform & IoT
AI
Full-Stack Operations
Education & Certifications
Google AI Professionals Certificate
Google · 2026
Includes: AI for Data Analysis · AI for App Building
Design Thinking Certificate
eCornell University · 2019
Art & Design Studies
WIZO Design School, Haifa, Israel · 2004 – 2006
Languages
English (native) · Hebrew (native) · Spanish (limited working)