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.

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