Product Leader

AI Products, Workflow Automation,
Platform & Data

Carlos Gil is a strategic product leader with 12+ years building new products and scaling core product areas. He co-founded Basis and led it from inception to acquisition by Digits, with end-to-end ownership across product, engineering, and go-to-market. His work spans AI products, workflow automation, payments, and data-rich systems that drive adoption, revenue growth, and operational efficiency.

Products built, shipped, and scaled

A record of building new products, scaling core product areas, and leading cross-functional bets across B2B SaaS, consumer, marketplace, and AI-native environments.

Where it started

UberEATS launch imagery showing the early standalone food delivery app

Uber

Software Engineer → Software Engineer II

Jun 2014 – May 2016 · San Francisco & New York

Helped launch the first version of UberEATS and built core infrastructure across the Communications Platform, UberRUSH, and UberEATS. Developed real-time middleware for dispatch and logistics, led the Pricing Engine project for flexible multi-leg pricing, and built fault-tolerant messaging systems delivering notifications to millions of users. A technical foundation in high-scale, product-rich environments.

Simmer

AI Family Recipe Manager

2026 · Side Project

Simmer is a personal project born from a real need: preserving and rediscovering family recipes in a way that feels natural and thoughtful. It's an AI-powered recipe app that captures recipes from any source, organizes them intelligently, and can generate new recipes from scratch using an AI chef.

The project reflects Carlos's product instincts applied to a personal problem and was built using AI agents. It's also used by his family to create and share recipes, with AI woven into the experience so it feels native and intentional rather than simply layered on top.

Simmer recipe page showing a clean, thoughtfully designed cooking interface
Recipe view — clean layout designed for cooking, not scrolling
AI Chef — generating a new recipe from scratch based on preferences and pantry

How I think about product

I've spent my career at the intersection of product strategy, technical systems, and design quality. I started as an engineer building high-scale infrastructure at Uber, then moved into leadership roles where I could shape not just what got built, but why and how it created leverage for the business.

Co-founding Basis taught me how to operate across every dimension of a product company: roadmap, architecture, customer discovery, hiring, GTM, and the hard decisions that come with building something from zero. Leading it to acquisition reinforced that great products come from strong judgment and end-to-end ownership, not just strong process.

I'm drawn to ambiguous, cross-functional, and systems-heavy environments where product leadership requires both strategic thinking and hands-on depth. I care about workflow simplification, intuitive product surfaces, and building things that compound rather than just ship, especially where product, engineering, and go-to-market all need to move in sync.

Outside of work, I mentor current Carnegie Mellon students on career development, and I stay close to the startup ecosystem through communities like Project Olympus and ODF.

Location

San Diego, CA (Remote)

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, B.S. ECE

Affiliations

ODF Alum · CMU Project Olympus · CMU Career Mentor