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Saadat Islam · Product & Growth Leader
I build products that grow revenue, fix broken teams, and treat users like adults. 16+ years of shipping across SaaS, AI, gaming, and healthcare. The best software earns its keep and then gets out of your way. That's the kind I like to build.
I'm Saadat Islam. For 16+ years I've built, scaled, and fixed products, usually the ones that stopped working somewhere along the way. I've turned messy orgs into focused ones and shipped AI tools that actually move the numbers. The best software is honest with you and then gets out of the way. That's the kind I like to build.
Off the clock, I'm a full-time husband, dog dad to Reinhardt and Winston, and a part-time hacker. I live in Beaverton, Oregon. Give me sharp thinking, a direct conversation, and room to get shit done.
How I think
Whatever gets me closer to truth.
The people closest to the truth are the CS reps taking angry calls and the sales folks who hear every objection, so that's who I go to first. I also vibecoded this whole site just to feel engineering's pain: GitHub, CI/CD, Vercel deploys, all of it. Miserable, honestly. Worth it. Tech should solve a problem, not impress investors.
The scientific method isn't just for labs.
Form a hypothesis, then try hard to prove it wrong. Most products die because the team fell in love with the first idea and never looked back. I take every feature down to its core assumption and go after it. If it's still standing, we build.
Perfect plans are fiction.
Ship the dumbest version that works, then watch people break it. Their confusion is data. Their workarounds are your roadmap. Every good product I've shipped started out embarrassingly simple. The gap between what you think users want and what they actually do is where the real insight hides.
The only product person on an RCM platform built around provider outcomes. Shipping TruIntake, a digital front door for providers. Fix the data coming in and you fix the revenue going out.
Stood up Kixie's first real product function, moved engineering onto agile, and led the AI voice agent built on 100M+ minutes of sales calls.
Led a microservices migration and built AI tools that tied regulatory intelligence to inspection data, so pharma teams could catch compliance risks sooner.
Took NPS from 30 to 65, pushed trial-to-paid up 27%, and saved $88k a year with a well-timed platform migration.
Grew signup conversion from 10% to 23%, lifted user conversion 55%, and got the whole company onto agile habits that actually stuck.
Shipped critical APIs, ran digital transformations for big clients, and found $1.12M in monthly revenue by actually reading the analytics.
Where it started. EA and GameFly taught me the craft: how to manage a product, sweat the user experience, and ship games people actually played.
Always up for a good conversation about products and AI, especially in healthcare and life sciences. If you're building something here, I want to hear about it. Want to build something?