About

I'm a Senior Product Manager at Workday, building an agent for contract management and automated accounting. On my own time I build and ship AI apps of my own, and I write here about what building them taught me.

I've spent about eight years in product management, across payments, health tech, public transit and now enterprise finance software. I have an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business and a degree in history and professional writing from the University of Victoria. The full history is on the Work page.

What I build

Everything on the Projects page started as a question I wanted to answer by doing the work myself: could I ship an app, what makes an AI feature worth trusting, how do you test an agent. The answers end up as posts. I don't have an engineering background. I build with AI tools like Claude. I think product managers make better decisions about AI once they have built with it.

Outside of work

I'm based in Victoria, BC. I'm learning French, playing more chess than my rating shows, and challenging myself on the squash court and golf course. I've competed nationally in field hockey and badminton, and love to play sports in general. I've led volunteer organizations and sat on numerous boards for non-profits and private entities, and am passionate about helping my community.

Proud new father as of 2026.

Get in touch

I'm always glad to talk about product management and building with AI. Email me at riley.a.trottier@gmail.com, or find me on LinkedIn and GitHub.