Chuck Reynolds

AI product strategy & enterprise API platforms. Technical SEO. Web performance.

Hi, I'm Chuck. I'm a Staff Product Manager, Growth at Wikimedia Enterprise, the commercial API product for Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the rest of the Wikimedia projects. We build the tooling AI companies, search engines, and developers use to consume it — hundreds of languages, tens of millions of articles, one of the largest open knowledge graphs on the internet, and a real-time firehose of every edit as it happens. Knowledge as a service, literally.

Most of my brain cycles these days live at the intersection of AI product strategy and implementation and enterprise API product management: how to ship API platforms that serve AI training and inference workloads at real scale, without losing the humans in the loop. Input data → output human guidance has been my tagline for years and it scales better than I expected.

Before Wikimedia, I spent years as a Senior Technical SEO Analyst inside CBS Interactive / ViacomCBS (then Red Ventures, post-acquisition), working across CNET, ZDNet, Gamespot, TechRepublic, TvGuide, GiantBomb, MetaCritic, ETOnline, Comicbook.com, and a bunch of other sites you've almost certainly clicked. Editorial, product, engineering, commerce; I sat in the middle and translated. Search traffic acquisition, architectural SEO, web performance, affiliate revenue.

Before that, ~15 years of self-employed and startup-land: cofounder, partner, COO, whatever-needs-doing hat. Aerospace engineering leanings, data-oriented marketing by practice.

What I'm building

• Wikimedia Enterprise — APIs for Wikipedia and sibling projects. Free tier exists; go play.
• Vuurr — Partner since 2011. Digital intelligence firm: custom web apps, technical audits, complex campaigns. Past and current clients include GitHub, ASU, MIT Sloan, Supercell, Twilio, Parse (Meta), Cox, Keap, Mattermark.
• OrbitHull — modular cargo containers for orbital tasking. (Yes, really.)
• Rynoweb — web tech consultancy I've been running since 2001.
• UpChuck — blog-shaped container for the thinking.

Previously

• Levers — predictive modeling for adtech. 2nd place at Hollywood Hackathon 2013 applying the same math to IMDB box-office prediction. Retired.
• TWIMLbin — acquired by Twilio.
• Betwext — the first SMS marketing platform built on Twilio. Sold, and still running.
• Organized the first two WordCamp Phoenix conferences (2009, 2011). Helped init and grow Gangplank a collaborative coworking space. Pitched in helping and/or organizing AZ Entrepreneurship Conference, PodCampAZ, Ignite Phoenix, and other local tech events (tweetups! early days were fun).
• BS, Computer Information Technology, Arizona State University (2000).

Talk to me

email: hello@rynoweb.com