I'm Chris Kendrick, a product builder and former Meta director with a background in law, privacy, and global operations.
I lead teams through complex decisions and build software and connected systems hands-on, using AI throughout the development process.
Working products. Stronger teams. Clearer decisions.
Product design and development
An adaptive piano learning product connecting guided practice, MIDI performance feedback, and progress. I defined the learning model and took the product from specification through deployment and iteration.
Explore the piano project
Software and connected hardware
A 3D-printing hub that brings materials, live printer state, and custom storage design together. I designed the journey, architecture, and integrations around the realities of a working home workshop.
Explore the printing projectI helped move an escalated generative-AI privacy-review function to steady operation, cutting decision turnaround by more than half within one quarter while supporting more than 100 launches.
The work combined staffing changes, researcher partnerships, and a reusable decision framework developed with Legal.
Read the leadership storiesOne-action wake, television control, and reliable suspend. A small product experience with real software, protocol, and hardware constraints.
Whether I'm building a product or leading an organization, I start with the experience people need and the decisions someone must own.
I use coordinated AI agents for research, design, engineering, and review. I set priorities, resolve tradeoffs, and decide what evidence is enough to ship. The tools extend what I can build; responsibility for the outcome stays with me.
My work has taken me from the courtroom to connected-home product management, then to building and transforming global privacy and risk-review organizations at Meta.
That background shapes how I work today: understand the human problem, make a clear decision, and stay close enough to the implementation to know whether it works.
Interested in building a product, improving an operating model, or discussing a leadership role?
I'd welcome a conversation about what you're working on and where I could help.