About

I have 12+ years of experience delivering exceptional customer experiences with data & AI intensive products for governments & regulated enterprises. I’ve helped scale three B2B SaaS companies from $1M to $10M+ ARR as both an individual contributor and a leader of 25+ person organizations.

I’ve bounced between the same three companies over the past ten years, twice returning to companies I worked with before to lead new functions. Most recently, I’ve rejoined Enigma, where I previously managed delivery of ML enabled compliance solutions for financial institutions, to adapt our data and platform to public sector needs. Previously, I managed the Product and Solutions Engineering teams at Prefect, where we built a workflow orchestrator that empowers data and machine learning engineers to elevate python scripts into resilient data pipelines. At FiscalNote, I managed the teams and the platform that collected, ingested, enriched, and served global policy data. I got my start driving efficiencies for federal agencies through analytics with Deloitte Consulting and FEDSIGHT.

I believe in the velocity over everything approach to building products. As a product leader, I solve for the difference between velocity and speed - direction, so that my teams can execute with autonomy and velocity.

Outside of work, you’re most likely to find me and my wife showing my son something new. We live in Bloomingdale, the neighborhood where (almost) everyone knows your name, in Washington, DC.

I grew up in New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia, and studied systems engineering at the University of Virginia.

Contact me

I’m not much of a social media person, but you can find me around the internet. I’m lurking and occasionally retweeting on Twitter 𝕏 at @BillPalombi. I begrudgingly have a LinkedIn profile.

If you have thoughts on something I’ve written, especially if you think I’m wrong, please email me! I’ve never had an email exchange with a stranger on the internet that wasn’t fun.

If you’re curious enough about me to have read this page, consider this an invitation to grab coffee. Or maybe we can just get together and eat a bunch of caramels. Just email me and we’ll make it happen.

About this site

This site has taken many forms since I first claimed the domain in 2011. Currently, it’s a place to share what I’m working on and thinking about. I write for:

  1. Me: I’m a believer in the power of writing to clarify thinking, live more curiously, and generate serendipity. This site is a tool for me to do all of those things.

  2. My friends: I have a bad habit of getting really into a thing and making every conversation about that thing. This site is a place to dump those things out of my head so I can send links instead of ruin conversations.

  3. People that read the stuff I read and want more stuff like that. Usually that stuff has to do with the business of tech, media for thought, sociotechnical systems, and startups.

I built this site with Pelican and Pneumatic.

This page was last updated in February 2025.