Clinton D'SouzaProduct Manager

Clinton D'Souza

Product Manager at Resly

Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Portrait of Clinton D'Souza
Product ManagerStrategy • Experience

I turn product strategy into clear roadmaps, aligned teams, and shipped outcomes.

Product management across SaaS, fintech, event tech, gaming, and real estate, with strength in roadmap ownership, prioritisation, and technical collaboration.

StrategyRequirementsDeliveryStakeholdersTechnical depth
clintdza@gmail.com

Current Focus

Building Resly

Product Manager at Resly since March 2025, leading roadmap direction, prioritisation, requirements, and delivery across the platform.

  • First roadmap in five years
  • Visibility across bugs and requests
  • Alignment across product and business teams

Previous-role highlights

Selected wins from roles before Resly.

300k

Users scaled

Mastermind Sports

7k

Daily active users

Mastermind Sports

#1 / #5

Product Hunt rank

Zuddl Studio

3% → 15%

Margin lift

Mastermind Sports

How I Work

I lead product work from strategy and prioritisation through delivery.

My strength is connecting roadmap strategy, stakeholder needs, engineering detail, and execution discipline so teams can move with clarity and confidence.

01

Shape the roadmap from business reality

I translate founder goals, market context, and internal pain points into a roadmap teams can rally around.

  • Tie product work to company direction
  • Prioritise around business impact
  • Create clarity before execution starts

02

Turn ambiguity into execution-ready requirements

I go beyond ideas and turn them into requirements, workflows, edge cases, and backlog structure engineering can actually ship.

  • Detailed product requirements
  • Backlog shaping and refinement
  • Cross-functional handoff clarity

03

Align stakeholders around product priorities

A big part of my work is helping teams understand priorities, tradeoffs, status, and what matters next in the product roadmap.

  • Stakeholder alignment and communication
  • Shared visibility into bugs and features
  • Clearer release expectations

04

Add technical depth without losing product judgment

Because I come from a developer background, I can support technical planning and keep product decisions grounded in implementation reality.

  • Technical collaboration with engineering
  • Feasible planning and tradeoff calls
  • Better translation between teams

Career Arc

A career built on increasing product scope, technical fluency, and cross-functional trust.

Each role added a new layer: commercial empathy, engineering context, product ownership, cross-functional leadership, and stronger judgment about what to build next.

08

Career chapters

From iOS development and business development into end-to-end product leadership.

05

Product domains

Depth across SaaS, fintech, event tech, gaming, and real estate products.

PM + Tech

Operating range

Comfort across strategy, requirements, stakeholder alignment, and delivery detail.

Resly logo

March 2025 – Present

Product Manager

Sole product lead, roadmap owner, stakeholder bridge, and de facto product owner across delivery and business visibility.

Sutton Tools logo

May 2024 – March 2025

Team Member

Managed inventory and shipping operations in a hands-on role while transitioning into the next stage of product leadership.

Zuddl logo

February 2022 – December 2023

Product Manager

Launched Zuddl Studio, led a 15-person cross-functional team, and managed backlog, lifecycle, and delivery in event tech.

Mastermind Sports logo

February 2019 – February 2022

Product Manager

Owned the product portfolio and business analytics to scale users, engagement, margins, and market share.

Happay logo

May 2017 – January 2019

Product Manager & Product Analyst

Built travel and expense product capability, led a team of 11, and improved funnel conversion through analytics.

HousingMan logo

October 2016 – May 2017

Product Manager

Managed web and mobile products and improved weekly retention through user-journey-led redesign.

Outside the Byte

April 2016 – October 2016

iOS Developer

Built RESTful integrations, mobile payment workflows, and reusable engineering solutions in an app-development environment.

Momoe logo

March 2015 – April 2016

Business Development Manager

Built customer relationships, generated leads, and developed commercial instincts that still influence how I think about products.

How I Build

Founder vision to execution-ready roadmapRequirements detail without losing strategic contextCross-functional stakeholder alignmentDelivery ownership and prioritisationStrong product-technical translationMetrics-led product decisions

Domains

  • Hospitality SaaS
  • Event technology
  • Fintech and travel
  • Gaming and sports engagement
  • Real estate technology

Tools & Methods

Product roadmapsJira and AtlassianRallyUser and UX researchWireframingSQL and analyticsAPI integrationsA/B testingAgile and Scrum

Selected Work

A portfolio built like case studies, not just resume bullets.

These are the product stories that best show strategy, execution discipline, and measurable outcomes across SaaS, fintech, event tech, gaming, and real estate.

Public Zuddl platform visual from the official site.
Event technology / B2B SaaSFebruary 2022 – December 2023

Zuddl

Product Manager (Event Production)

Launched Zuddl Studio from inception, led a 15-person cross-functional team, and helped the product earn Product Hunt recognition.

  • Launched Zuddl Studio from inception
  • Product Hunt: #1 Product of the Day
  • Product Hunt: #5 Product of the Week
View Case Study
Public fallback brand visual connected to Mastermind.
Gaming / sports engagementFebruary 2019 – February 2022

Mastermind Sports

Product Manager (Betting / Casino / Gaming)

Scaled users from 20,000 to 300,000, moved DAU from 120 to 7,000, and improved margins from 3% to 15% while growing market share.

  • 20,000 → 300,000 users
  • 120 → 7,000 daily active users
  • 3% → 15% monthly profit margins
View Case Study
Public Happay platform visual from the official site.
Fintech / corporate travel and expenseMay 2017 – January 2019

Happay

Product Manager & Product Analyst

Led a team of 11 to build Happay Travel and increased funnel conversion by around 20 percent through analytics and product insight.

  • Led a team of 11 on Happay Travel
  • ~20% funnel conversion improvement
  • Built analytics dashboards and user-behaviour visibility
View Case Study
Public HousingMan website banner visual.
Real estate technologyOctober 2016 – May 2017

HousingMan

Product Manager

Improved weekly user retention by 35 percent through user-journey mapping, incentives, and redesigning the product around what drove repeat usage.

  • 35% increase in weekly user retention
  • Owned both web and mobile product surfaces
  • Mapped journeys and incentives to redesign product behaviour
View Case Study

Get In Touch

Need a PM who can connect strategy, stakeholders, and shipping?

I help companies build clarity where teams feel ambiguity: roadmap strategy, prioritisation, requirements, delivery coordination, and product systems that keep the wider business aligned.