Kyle Gani,33.92° S, 18.42° E, home
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Kyle Gani, Product leader

Companies I've worked with

I build products and teams that other engineers rely on.

Work
Product lead, AI infrastructure
Trained as
Software engineer, product manager, designer
Years
13 in product, engineering and founding
Based in
Cape Town, working remotely
Email mehello@kylegani.com

Product

Mission Control is how I lead a product organization: one loop, three decisions, made on purpose, that determine whether a team gets better every quarter or just bigger. The decisions are sight, conviction and adaptation.

Read Mission Control/mission-control

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Essays

Essays on running product at AI infrastructure and developer platform companies.

The thesis12 min read

The margin you cannot see

When the product is a system, the change customers love can quietly turn your margin negative. You find out at month close, weeks too late to trace it back. Mission Control8 min read

Wrong at scale

Hiring more people speeds up the plan you already have. It does nothing for the moment the plan turns out to be wrong.

About

Cape Town

Now

I'm Kyle Gani, a product lead in AI infrastructure, based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Cerebrium

Since Feb 2024

Since February 2024 I've led product at Cerebrium, a serverless GPU cloud for real-time AI inference: strategy and pricing, security and compliance, and the teams who build on it.

Practor

Founded 2025

In 2025 I founded Practor, practice management software for private practices in South Africa: scheduling, patient files, billing and insurance claims in one system.

Other

Before

Before Cerebrium I ran platform and developer experience at OfferZen, product for a neobank at SadaPay, and engineering teams at Platform45.

WeThinkCode_

Trained

I trained as a software engineer at WeThinkCode_ and studied product management at the University of Cape Town.

Consulting/consultingAbout me/aboutResume/resume

Engineering

I trained as a software engineer and still ship production code. These are the guides and engineering posts I have written for the companies I work with.