Plans without products
Rolled out Plan and Product terminology behind a feature flag across settings, signup pages, invoices, activity and validation copy, so a subscription no longer needs a product.
Senior Technical Product Manager · San Antonio, TX
Phil Van Ingen
Product manager who ships: from product brief to merged pull request.
I have 14 years of experience in billing, payments and infrastructure. At Maxio I write the strategy, the specs and the code for metering, wallets, entitlements and pricing. I also built the Claude Code tooling that engineers there now use and extend.
Commits per month at Maxiopeak 248
14years in billing, payments and infrastructure
110+production pull requests in the last 12 months
1,800+commits at Maxio
17straight months shipping code
6apps covered by the AI setup tooling I built
Featured projects
Case studies
Three projects from Maxio, each taken from the problem to the shipped result.
Metering · Pricing engine
Segment-level custom pricing
Metered customers wanted to override usage rates on a single subscription, per pricing segment, without forking their catalog. I took it from the first deep-dive to production in about three months.
Read case study →Wallets · Prepaid · EntitlementsWallets and prepaid usage
I scoped the Wallet & Entitlements MVP, a board-level bet on AI-platform billing. Then I built the prepaid rollover and expiration controls, fixed the issues found at launch, and wrote the public API docs.
Read case study →AI tooling · Developer experienceAI workflows for a product org
I treated the team's AI setup as a product. I packaged our conventions into Claude Code plugins and skills, so any engineer or PM gets the same rules, setup help and path from ticket to PR in one install.
Read case study →More work
Across the product suite
~30 tickets · 2026
2025 – 2026
Metering UI
Redesigned the meter field modal, the event stream pages, the schema preview and the usage warnings, and fixed the formula meter editor.
2026
Customizable dashboard
Restyled the main dashboard and added widgets that customers can customize.
Discovery
Customer feedback to releases
Ran customer feedback sessions and turned the findings into prioritized work and fast-follow releases, including monthly accruals for metering and clearer zero-usage invoice lines.
Revenue product
Revenue and contracts features
Added international date formats to CSV imports, contract numbers on statements, notes carried over to renewals, partial months in pricing formulas, and new VAT countries.
Go-to-market
Billing best practices
Wrote a billing best-practices article that became a five-day marketing campaign.
How I build
Fast, with more review than usual
AI let me ship more, so I added more review around everything I shipped.
Write it down first
Bigger features start as a deep-dive and a plan for each milestone, reviewed like code, so each decision is made once and written down.
Parallel work, kept separate
I run several Claude Code sessions, each in its own git worktree with one ticket, so independent fixes move forward at the same time without colliding.
Review before anyone else looks
Automated AI review, a second review by a different model, and hands-on functional testing all happen before I ask a teammate to look.
Small PRs that are easy to read
Each PR carries one change, a clear title, the ticket, and how I tested it.