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Whitney Trujillo

I execute. The numbers
compound after.

I'm an AI-native operator who spent nine years building the infrastructure other people's launches run on — first at Amazon, then Dropbox, then two stints at Coinbase. Before any of that, I was a D1 pole vaulter at Purdue, which is where I learned that technique beats effort, and effort without technique gets you hurt.

I hold a patent-pending invention, run my HOA as president, and treat every process I touch as a system to be measured, automated, and shipped — not managed. This page is the long version of my résumé. The numbers are the short version, and they're all real.

Operating principles

01 / REPS OVER POLISH

I'd rather ship a rough version ten times than polish one version to death. Reps compound. Polish stalls.

02 / METRICS ANCHOR EVERYTHING

If I can't measure it, I don't claim it. Every launch, every process, every decision gets a number attached before I move on.

03 / SHIP WEEKLY

Momentum is a discipline, not a mood. I break every initiative into shippable weekly units — no quarter-long black boxes.

04 / AI AS LEVERAGE, NOT NOVELTY

I don't bolt AI onto a workflow for the demo. I use it to delete steps — 1,600+ resolutions a month now run without a human because I built it that way.

05 / ATHLETE DISCIPLINE

Four years of D1 pole vault taught me technique beats effort, and effort without technique gets you hurt. Same is true in ops.

06 / OWN THE ROOM

I run the meeting, not attend it. Stakeholder alignment is a deliverable I produce, not a hope I have.

07 / SYSTEMS OUTLIVE ME

The job isn't done when I fix the problem. It's done when the fix runs without me — playbooks, specs, and tooling that outlast my Slack handle.

Career timeline

2017 — 2022

Amazon Program Manager II — Outbound Pick & AMZL Launch Execution

$5M+ capex managed74 global TSSL sites, outbound pick SME
2022 — 2023

Coinbase Program Manager

77+ launches led62 issue themes, ~107K contacts/mo scope
2023 — 2024

Dropbox CX Program Manager

$1.4M in cost savings uncovered19% reduction in unexecuted projects
2024 — 2025

VALA Head of Product & Strategy

Shipped in 7 weeks, 50% under budget$660K raise supported
2024 — 2025

Coinbase Senior Program Lead → Senior Strategic Program Lead, Payments / Base App / CDP

+1,480 bps automation lift (59% → 74%)1,600+ automated resolutions/mo via MCP spec I authored

Credentials

M.S. Recreation & Sport Management — Purdue

B.S. Movement Science — Purdue

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

OSHA 10

Certified Yoga Instructor

Ex-D1 Pole Vault — Purdue

Patent-Pending Inventor

HOA President

Beyond the 9-5

FlexTowel

Invented, patent-pending, self-launched. I took a multifunctional household towel from concept to production and branding on my own timeline — same instincts I bring to every launch.

HOA President

I run my community's governance and operations the way I run a launch — full-stack website, CMS, payments, and an AI chatbot to cut resident friction.

Web3 since 2017

Nine-plus years inside crypto and NFT communities, well before it was a job title on my résumé. I understand this space because I've lived in it, not because I read the whitepapers once.

Yoga & Community

Certified yoga instructor. I use the same discipline that got me through D1 vault practices to stay sharp off the clock — and to give back to the community I lead.

Stack / tools I use

Claude CodeOpenWebUIOpenAICursorFigmaAsanaNotionJiraLinearZendeskLookerSQL