About me
A product manager who builds
I've spent 14 years in billing, payments and infrastructure, first in operations, then in product, then leading engineering teams. Today I do all three at once.
I started at Rackspace running change management for a global hosting fleet. From there I moved into product management for the operating systems behind $1.3B in annual hosting revenue, then led automation teams in the US and India that saved $1.5M and cut alert tickets from 4.3 million a month to 195,000.
At Affinipay I managed the engineering team behind a payments platform that processes $20B a year, and led the move of 65,000 merchants to a new backend.
At Maxio I came back to product with a new set of tools. AI coding agents let a product manager carry an idea the whole way: customer discovery, the product brief, the implementation plan, the production code, the functional tests and the public API docs. I've shipped code every month for 17 months, and I built the Claude Code plugins that help the rest of the team do the same.
What I'm looking for
A senior technical product role where I own a product area end to end, from discovery to shipped code, especially in billing, payments, usage-based pricing, or developer and AI tooling. I'm based in San Antonio and work remotely.
Outside work
I serve as Secretary on the Board of Directors of Good Hope 1910, where I ran the 2026 annual shareholder meeting and vote. I studied business administration at Trinity University in San Antonio.
Career
14 years, one thread
Every role has involved getting complex billing, payments or infrastructure systems to run reliably.
- 2012 – 2015
Rackspace · Technical Change Management Advisor
Ran the weekly change advisory board and cut change-related incidents by 20% a year.
- 2015 – 2018
Rackspace · Product Manager, Managed Hosting OS
Owned the operating system portfolio for a hosting fleet with $1.3B in annual revenue, and created the company's first end-of-life process.
- 2019 – 2022
Rackspace · Software Development Manager
Led automation teams in the US and India. Cut monthly alert tickets from 4.3M to 195K and saved $1.5M.
- 2022 – 2024
Affinipay · Software Engineering Manager
Led the team behind a payments platform processing $20B a year, and moved 65K merchants to a new backend.
- 2025 – now
Maxio · Product Manager & Builder
Own metering, wallets, entitlements and pricing, from the brief to the code to the public docs.
Get in touch
- Email philvaningen@gmail.com
- LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/pvaninge
- GitHub github.com/philvaningen
- Location San Antonio, TX · Remote
Selected builds
- job-search-copilot: an open-source Claude skill
- Maxio developer docs: the Wallets, Entitlements and Hybrid Pricing APIs
- AI workflows at Maxio: internal Claude Code plugins and skills