Summary
Lee Yanco is a Senior Product Manager at Google with a decade of experience designing and shipping cloud-native monitoring products, currently focused on Cloud Monitoring and Managed Service for Prometheus. He blends a strong technical background with hands-on Lean and Agile-XP practice, championing user research, rapid validation, and building only the next most important thing. Lee has taught product management at General Assembly and consulted at Pivotal Labs, where he embedded discovery practices into teams from startups to Fortune 500s. His past roles span B2B SaaS, marketplaces, and fintech analytics, giving him a pragmatic view of metrics, integrations, and developer workflows. Based in New York, he pairs product rigor with a belief in healthy intra-team communication and measurable success criteria. An instructor-turned-practitioner, he’s as comfortable running customer interviews as aligning roadmaps to technical constraints.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Economics, Finance, Operations & Information Management, BS in Economics, Finance, Operations & Information Management at University of Pennsylvania