Shane Quinlan is the Director of Product Delivery at Hypergiant Galactic Systems. Shane works with government leaders, warfighters, and mission partners to deliver AI-enabled command and control capabilities for the US military and our allies - including the $60M JERIC2O contract for NORAD/USNORTHCOM.
Prior to Hypergiant, Shane was the VP of Product at Kion (cloud security and FinOps), Product Portfolio Director at Rise8 (defense consulting), Chief Product Officer at Certilytics, Inc. (healthcare AI), and Product Manager at Ntrepid (intel and cybersecurity). Shane has over a decade of experience in product management, digital transformation, and consulting, with a particular talent for communicating complex ideas in any industry and tech stack.
In product management, Shane found a career that exercised his inherent creativity and nerdiness, but also pushed him to be a leader and a louder voice for company-wide change. He’s equally happy doing market research while jamming to Spotify, talking cloud infrastructure automation requirements with the dev team over tacos, writing help articles for a public API, interviewing customers, speaking in front of a crowd of 500 people, or demoing his products on the trade show exhibit floor. He’s grown multiple teams from scratch to 10+ direct hires across product, design, tech writing, QA, and more.
His proudest moments have been defining product strategy - especially strategic pivots. Like all graduates of Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program (SSP), Shane is well versed in strategic theory and keeps a reference copy of Clausewitz’s On War on his desk. If he wasn’t a Product Manager, Shane would be a college professor; he excels at breaking down barriers to knowledge in technology, policy, history, management, and business. He’s been a guest lecturer and trainer for students and professionals in the national security field, building curriculum and digital assets for seminars on cybersecurity, software development, OSINT, career building, and more. In his spare time, he does mentoring and career coaching for tech workers
Shane’s idols are innovators and aviators - he grew up memorizing aircraft encyclopedias and building LEGO spacecraft while reading about the exploits of Jimmy Doolittle and the Apollo astronauts. Now he spends his free stargazing, reading history, marathon training, and looking for the next great cup of coffee.