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1. Red Bull · Product consultant, emerging technologies

   Teaching a model to watch breaking

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   A breaking battle moves faster than anyone can type.

   Producers spent hours tagging what happens in every clip. I proposed and now run Red Bull’s first video annotation pipeline: a multimodal model labels each move, a person checks the ones it’s unsure of, and the labels reach the live broadcast in real time through an API. It’s 87% accurate across 5,100+ labelled clips, starting with breaking and built to take on other sports.

   For product I took it from a proposal to a pilot: the spec, the vendors, the evaluation and the funding.

   For innovation Red Bull’s first annotation pipeline, built so other sports can follow.

   For teaching A person correcting a model is the clearest way I know to show how AI learns. Try it below.

   • Compute and engineering from Google, Microsoft, IBM and NVIDIA
   • Our paper, Breakdance Video Classification in the Age of Generative AI, is under review

   Try it: be the person in the loop

   A minute of a breaking battle, cut into moves. Press play and watch the model label each move as it happens. Then decide the ones it isn’t sure of.

   Model v1…

   1. 0:00Toprock
   2. 0:07Toprock
   3. 0:13Footwork
   4. 0:21
      Freeze?, Check

      Which move is at 0:21?

      FreezePower moveFootwork
   5. 0:26Power move
   6. 0:34
      Footwork?, Check

      Which move is at 0:34?

      FootworkToprockTransition
   7. 0:43Power move
   8. 0:51
      Freeze?, Check

      Which move is at 0:51?

      FreezePower moveTransition

   Play the round

   Illustration. An invented round drawn as a skeleton: not Red Bull footage or model output.

2. Red Bull · Advisory · 2022–now

   Rules for filming sport in a headset

   Put a camera in the wrong place in a headset and the viewer’s stomach finds out first.

   In Apple Vision Pro the viewer stands where the camera stands, so a bad camera position makes the body want out. I advise Red Bull’s immersive team and write its Sports Emmy submissions. World of Red Bull in Apple Immersive brought our fourth nomination, and it won the Sports Emmy for Outstanding Digital Innovation.

   For product My specs start from what the viewer’s body can take.

   For innovation A Sports Emmy for Outstanding Digital Innovation, and four nominations for immersive sport.

   For teaching I turn a production lesson into a rule a crew can use the next morning.

   • January 2026: five people in Apple Vision Pro handled a full-size 3D Formula 1 power unit together, live, for Red Bull and Ford. 1.1 million views in a week
   • Pre-Flight, Red Bull’s headset review tool, cut review cycles from days to minutes

   Try it: where should the camera go?

   Drag the camera up from under the water. Two heights break the viewer.

   Camera height:

   +4 ft

   Nothing to report at this height.

   Her rules, in her words. The picture is a diagram, not footage.

3. Red Bull · Lead PM · March 2023

   The Art of Falling

   A 27-metre high dive, taken from a museum floor in Lucerne.

   Cliff diving and big wave surfing for museum visitors in Lucerne: a mixed reality dive from a 27-metre platform, a surfboard game, a dive you fly lying down, and a VR film with Jonathan Paredes.

   For innovation A 27-metre high dive for museum visitors, in mixed reality.

   • Opened 20 March 2023 at the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne
   • The platform copies the 27-metre one built for the 2022 Cliff Diving World Series in Sisikon
   • Cliff diving champion Jonathan Paredes guides the VR film

   Watch the film (opens in a new tab)

4. Red Bull · Lead PM · June 2021

   Climbing the Matterhorn in a headset

   The Matterhorn is 4,478 metres high, and you climb the last of it on a museum wall.

   A virtual climb to the Matterhorn’s 4,478-metre summit at the Swiss Museum of Transport, on a real wall in a harness and a VR headset. It won the 2021 Auggie for Best Location-Based Entertainment.

   For innovation AWE’s 2021 Auggie for Best Location-Based Entertainment.

   • Opened 23 June 2021 at the Swiss Museum of Transport in Lucerne
   • Red Bull athlete Jérémie Heitz and Zermatt guide Sam Anthamatten brief every climber
   • Auggie Award 2021, Best Location-Based Entertainment

   Watch the film (opens in a new tab)

5. Red Bull · Lead PM and lead researcher · February 2021

   Discover Your Wiiings: a game in every can

   Every can on the shelf unlocked a game.

   A nationwide retail campaign with five augmented reality games. Shoppers scanned a can or pack of Red Bull to play as one of five athletes, from Ninja to Carissa Moore, and top scorers won prizes from the athletes.

   For innovation AR games unlocked by scanning a can, in a nationwide retail campaign.

   • Five athletes: Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, Carissa Moore, Zion Wright, Travis Pastrana and Kate Courtney
   • Scanning Red Bull Energy Drink, Sugarfree or Zero unlocked a game
   • Launched February 2021

   Watch the AR games (opens in a new tab)Red Bull on Discover Your Wiiings (opens in a new tab)

6. Red Bull Media House · Lead PM and lead researcher · December 2020

   The Last Ascent, synced to your TV

   Point your phone at the TV, and the film carries on in your living room.

   Augmented reality synced to The Last Ascent, Will Gadd’s film about Kilimanjaro’s melting ice. Built with Google and funded by a $100,000 Google grant, it ran on Google TV and Android TV.

   For innovation Built with Google on a $100,000 grant, and shown at Google I/O.

   • $100,000 Google grant
   • Featured in the Google I/O keynote
   • Part of Google TV’s fourth-quarter ad campaign for its devices
   • Ran on Chromecast with Google TV and other Android TV devices, with the Red Bull TV app on a phone or tablet

   Red Bull on The Last Ascent AR (opens in a new tab)

7. Red Bull · Lead PM · 2020

   Red Bull Stratos, from the edge of space

   Felix Baumgartner stepped off a capsule at the edge of space in 2012. Now you can stand where he stood.

   Felix Baumgartner’s jump from the stratosphere, twice over: a capsule you can step into in augmented reality on an iPhone, and a VR exhibit in Lucerne with wind in your face.

   For innovation The same jump in two forms: AR on an iPhone, and VR in a museum.

   • VR at Red Bull Media World in the Swiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne, in six scenes
   • AR on iPhone and iPad: open the capsule in 3D and step inside, no app needed
   • The VR installation: headset, vibrating chair and a fan

   Red Bull on Stratos in AR and VR (opens in a new tab)

8. LA TechSpace Media House · Co-author · 2026–now

   Think Like Trixie

   An eight-year-old asked what AI is, so we made her the hero of the answer.

   Vea is our cousin’s daughter in Singapore. Her question, “Mommy, what is AI?”, found its way to us, because building AI is what we do all day. The least efficient answer we could think of was a whole book.

   In it, Vea has an hour until her mom’s birthday party and no card written when her robot Trixie stops mid-sentence. So she shrinks herself down and dives into her best friend’s head to find out how Trixie thinks, and how to switch her back on. Down there she meets the Trixels, tiny pixel creatures who carry glowing word pieces.

   For teaching How AI thinks, told as an adventure for readers aged 5 to 10.

   • A story to read together, for ages 5 to 10
   • Book 1 is free to read, and it’ll stay that way
   • The story is finished; the drawings are still pencil, except the cover

   Read Book 1 free (opens in a new tab)Trixie on Instagram (opens in a new tab)

   

9. Red Bull Media House · Product lead · 2019–2021

   Red Bull Rampage in augmented reality

   Riders drop down cliff faces live on Red Bull TV. I led the product that laid augmented reality over the top.

   Virtual production in the Red Bull Rampage broadcast and augmented reality in the Red Bull TV app. Rampage on Red Bull TV was a 2022 Sports Emmy nominee for Outstanding Interactive Experience.

   For innovation A 2022 Sports Emmy nomination for interactive event coverage.

   • 43rd Sports Emmy Awards (2022): nominated for Outstanding Interactive Experience, Event Coverage
   • Credited as a producer on the nomination

   Watch the AR experience (opens in a new tab)The Sports Emmy nominees (PDF) (opens in a new tab)

10. Nana’s Notebook · My own tool · 2026–now

    Summaries lose nuance

    The line that matters most is usually the one nobody wrote down.

    I record my meetings, transcribe them on my own machine with speaker names and timestamps, and search the transcripts instead of summaries. A summary keeps what seemed important that day. The transcript keeps what turns out to matter later. It once showed me the same consolidation pattern in regional hospitals and in game studios, because it had kept both conversations whole.

    For product Every PRD I write now points back to the minute a customer said it.

    For innovation Private by default and cheap to run, because it’s local.

    For teaching I wrote up how it works so anyone can build their own.

    “Summaries lose nuance. And narratives have bias.”

    • Local-first: the recordings stay on my machine
    • It drafts PRDs and statements of work from what customers said, with the timestamp

    Read the essay (opens in a new tab)

    Try it: summary or transcript?

    The same meeting, kept two ways. Read the summary, then open the transcript and tap the line the summary dropped.

    SummaryTranscript

    Kickoff with the venue. Agreed on a two-week weekend pilot. Next step: send the proposal by Friday.

    Illustration. An invented meeting, not one of Nanavati’s recordings.

11. BIB Technologies · Co-founder and COO · 2021–now

    A store that plugs into nothing

    What if a shop could roll in, open up and never look for a plug?

    BIB builds small electric trucks that open into storefronts and run on their own energy storage, so a museum or a venue can add a shop without building one. Our FRO storefront serves visitors at the La Brea Tar Pits and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, and this year it served a sold-out Lord of the Rings marathon at the Los Angeles Theatre.

    For product Hardware, payments, software and operations, all in one small truck.

    For innovation We swapped a grid connection for energy storage and a set of wheels.

    For teaching I’ve lectured on mobile commerce at Cal State Fullerton from what we learned.

    • Customers up 5x in our first year as operator
    • Event revenue up 175%
    • $300,000 raised from investors
    • Refrigerated units for UC Davis, with Fairway EV

    The energy storage swap, then and now

    1. November 20242 days · 4 people and a forklift
    2. July 20258 hours or less · 2 people and a rack

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12. Red Bull Basement · Technical product manager · 2022–now

    An AI brainstorm for 110,000 students

    A blank page is the hardest part of any startup idea, so we gave students something to think with.

    An AI brainstorming tool that took student startup entries from 4,500 to 110,000+ across 2,000+ universities, at $0.07 per student.

    For product Launched in three months, at seven cents a student.

    For innovation Red Bull’s first large generative AI product.

    For teaching I mentored the student teams and helped choose the finalists for Tokyo.

    • Microsoft co-funded $70,000 of the servers
    • More than 10 languages
    • 32% of students who started an entry finished it

    What changed

    Getting students from a blank page to a startup pitch

    110,000+

    4,500

13. Wings for Life World Run · Lead product manager, Red Bull Media House · 2019–2022

    Every runner, one start

    One race, run in 192 countries at the same moment, and the app had to keep up with every runner.

    A 35-person rebuild of the World Run app: GPS tracking and live leaderboards for 161,892 runners in 192 countries, and a rating that went from 2.9 to 4.9 stars.

    For product A 35-person team across three continents, shipped to a date that can’t move: race day.

    For innovation Live GPS race tracking for a race run everywhere at once.

    • 161,892 runners in 192 countries
    • €4.7 million raised for spinal cord research
    • Rebuilt in nine months

    What changed

    Building an app runners trusted on race day

    4.9 stars

    2.9 stars

14. Red Bull · Product consultant, emerging technologies

    Search by what’s in the shot

    Producers knew the shot they wanted. The archive only knew file names.

    Six multimodal models tested for accuracy, false positives and cost, then search built on embeddings: finding a clip went from 30+ minutes to under 60 seconds.

    For product We picked the model from measured accuracy, false positives and cost.

    For innovation Producers type what they remember seeing, and the archive finds it.

    • Tested GPT-4o, Claude, Llama, Gemini, Watson and Qwen

    What changed

    Finding any shot in the archive just by describing it

    under 60 seconds

    30+ minutes

15. Aipoly and V7 Labs · Head of product and operations · 2016–2018

    AI for the Blind, at CES

    Point a phone at the world and hear it say what’s there: that was the whole idea.

    Aipoly’s app told a blind or low-vision person what their phone was pointed at, with a neural network that ran on the phone itself. We showed it at CES in January 2016. I went on to run product and operations for Aipoly’s checkout-free store, with ceiling cameras and weight-sensing shelves, and for V7’s Darwin annotation platform.

    For product Two products from zero: a consumer app and an enterprise data tool.

    For innovation CES Best of Innovation, 2017.

    • CES Best of Innovation, 2017
    • A $1 million contract with Merck’s research team for Darwin

    

    

16. SpaceX · Engineering intern · 2015

    Checks before anything ships

    A rocket part that ships with a problem is a very expensive surprise.

    I designed one standard check for large assemblies and critical modules before they ship, with problems reported automatically and fed straight back to the engineers, plus a dashboard to track what was being held. It saved 200+ engineering hours and about $200,000 a year.

    For product I wrote requirements and procedures the production line used every day.

    For innovation Problems went back to the engineers automatically, as they were found.

    • Wrote the procedures and the tool requirements