Shane Quinlan is Director of Product Management at Accelint, leading AI-enabled defense and command-and-control capabilities for the US government. Prior to Accelint, Shane served as VP of Product at Kion (cloud security and FinOps), Portfolio Director at Rise8 (defense digital transformation), Chief Product Officer at Certilytics (healthcare AI), and Product Manager at Ntrepid (cybersecurity).
With over a decade of product leadership experience, Shane is a flexible product leader who thrives across tech stacks, markets, and company sizes. He has consistently built data platforms and AI applications that help organizations make sense of complexity and execute faster. His career spans consumer, commercial, and government markets, shipping everything from big data and machine learning to multi-cloud compliance and mission-critical defense systems. He is equally comfortable doing customer research, architecting infrastructure requirements with engineering teams, defining product strategy, or speaking to a room of 500.
Shane maintains a player-coach approach to product management. He stays close to the tactical work of creating clarity, defining execution, and keeping teams moving while also scaling organizations and building strong teams. He has built multiple product organizations from scratch, growing teams across product management, design, technical writing, and QA. His proudest work has been leading strategic pivots and digital transformations in highly regulated environments. He gravitates toward problems where the stakes are high and constraints are real.
Shane graduated from Georgetown University's Security Studies Program, where he studied strategic theory under the same program that produces national security leaders. He maintains an active TS/SCI clearance and has worked directly with multiple government agencies — from NASA and CMS to the DOW and IC. He understands the operational realities and regulatory landscape of defense technology. He is particularly passionate about military logistics and understands firsthand how readiness and command failures cascade.
If he were not in product management, Shane would be a college professor. He excels at translating complex ideas across industries and tech stacks. He has guest lectured and trained professionals in cybersecurity, software development, and national security topics. Since 2024, he has provided pro bono career coaching to technology professionals transitioning into or advancing within the industry.
In his spare time, Shane runs marathons, reads history, stargazes, and hunts for the perfect cup of coffee. His idols are innovators and aviators like Jimmy Doolittle and the Apollo astronauts.