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Tolendi Tastybay

Hi, I’m Tolendi.
I like making complicated work feel simple.

01

experience

Jun 2026 — Present

NocTeam

Product Manager InternJun 2026 — Present

ProductAn evidence-backed operations product that matches carrier invoices and payments across email, bank, and factoring records.

  • Interviewed 20 small-carrier operators and ran five prototype tests, redirecting the MVP from another dashboard to timely, evidence-backed alerts.
  • Translated carrier workflows into product requirements and partnered with engineering and design on OCR, rules, and LLM fallback logic.
  • Piloted on 15+ months of carrier data, reaching 90%+ matching accuracy and surfacing 3+ actionable issues each week; 70%+ of alerts prompted action or confirmation.
Sep 2025 — Jun 2026

UC Law Center for Innovation

Product Manager · Graduate PracticumSep 2025 — Jun 2026

ProductA secure FDA data-review product that reconciles 50K+ records with deterministic rules and an LLM exception path.

  • Led product strategy and launch, turning six discovery sessions into the PRD, roadmap, acceptance criteria, and exception-review workflow.
  • Reduced monthly FDA review time by 99% within 30 days and cut processing from 2–3 hours to under 2 minutes.
  • Defined a tiered architecture that resolved 95% of records deterministically, reduced LLM token use by 90%, and shipped with Google OAuth and Analytics.
Jun 2021 — Aug 2025

Center for Strategic Initiatives

Senior Product ManagerJun 2023 — Aug 2025

ProductAn enterprise finance, reporting, approval, and project-management platform used to coordinate high-stakes operational planning.

  • Led the product from initial client pitch through implementation, securing a three-year, $1.5M contract.
  • Raised weekly retention to 80% and reduced support tickets by 50% by translating 100+ stakeholder interviews into reminders, status visibility, and workflow changes.
  • Increased NPS by 23 points and reduced planning costs by 12% through experiment-led adoption-funnel and roadmap changes.
Product ManagerJun 2021 — Jun 2023

ProductAn infrastructure-prioritization platform that converts public-service data and standards into explainable investment recommendations.

  • Owned end-to-end development across 16M+ data points and 60+ service standards, guiding more than $40M in regional investment.
  • Reached 95% report accuracy and cut latency by 40% through automated validation pipelines across 10K+ weekly reports.
  • Increased workflow conversion by 33%, reduced submission time by 30%, and improved report-query performance by 50% through funnel instrumentation and A/B-tested changes.
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02

selected projects

Production case studies and independent products spanning AI architecture, decision support, nonprofit risk, and football scouting.

02decision support · predictive analytics · public sector
$40M+allocation decisions influenced

A shared regional program that converted infrastructure evidence and reporting workflows into ranked, explainable investment decisions.

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Infrastructure investment and reporting platform

standard gap60+ rules
evidence16M+ data points
feasibilitydelivery + cost
ranked needexplainable priority
budget decision$40M+across 5 regions

16M+ data points · 60+ standards · 92% final-approved completion

03enterprise product · workflow optimization · platform rollout

Enterprise finance and reporting platform

A multi-module budgeting, finance, approval, reporting, and project-management platform deployed across regional organizations.

33%workflow-conversion lift
beforeafter
query timebaseline50% faster
submissionbaseline30% faster
33%workflow-conversion lift1,250 training attendances · 5+ deployments
Independent builds

Two smaller products where I explored explainable modeling and recommendation systems.

prototype

Nonprofit financial shock simulator

A Streamlit decision-support tool that screens 1.7M+ IRS filings for nonprofit financial distress and keeps risk thresholds explainable.

The product transformed a large public dataset into an interactive decision-support tool for exploring financial vulnerability among nonprofit organizations.

1.7M+ IRS filings0.810 AUC75% high-risk precision
shock simulator
organizationcommunity health network
risk 78
low cash reserverevenue concentrationexpense volatility
projected vulnerabilityhigh

build a six-month liquidity plan and diversify grant revenue.

working model

Football scouting and recommendation system

A data-driven player similarity and scouting system built from ten years of football performance and market-value data.

The product identifies similar players, potential replacements, undervalued players, and future-growth candidates.

250K+ recordsten years of player data
moneyball-likescouting report / 08
CM
replacement briefprogressive midfielder
$4.2m target ceiling
progression84%
pressing79%
chance creation76%
shortlist
01 / player A91% fitundervalued
02 / player B86% fitgrowth
03

currently building

A functional AI-operations MVP with measured internal-pilot evidence.

04AI product · logistics · 0-to-1

AI operations platform for small trucking carriers

A functional MVP that connects financial and operational evidence to explainable, actionable alerts.

90%+invoice and payment-status accuracy
20 carrier interviews3+ actionable insights weekly70%+ weekly action rate
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DISCOVERED

20 interviews showed operators needed problems surfaced—not another dashboard.

VALIDATED

90%+ invoice and payment-status detection accuracy.

Start with a broad chatbot
INTERNAL PILOT

3+ actionable insights per carrier each week.

70%+ weekly action or usefulness rate