Java
Tucker Melton
Technical Product Manager
Austin,TX
Summary
Technical Product Manager with a software engineering foundation and 9+ years of experience delivering platform capabilities at scale — from mission-critical airline systems to streaming infrastructure serving millions. Uniquely positioned to bridge engineering and product: fluent in technical tradeoffs, credible with engineering teams, and focused on outcomes that move business metrics. Experienced owning technical roadmaps, defining KPIs, aligning stakeholders, and leading cross-functional teams from discovery through delivery.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Product Manager
NBCUniversal (Peacock)
09.2022 - Current
- Reduced video start time by 20% through platform and DRM optimizations
- Increased ad revenue by 100%+ via ad delivery and tracking improvements
- Defined and owned KPIs aligned with business goals, driving data-informed product and prioritization decisions
- Managed roadmap and backlog for two international Core Video SDK teams across NBC and Sky, aligning work and setting priorities across 22 software and QA engineers
- Enabled live interaction features for Olympic games, increasing user engagement by 19%
Technical Product Owner
Southwest Airlines
07.2021 - 09.2022
- Drove migration of 30% of legacy on-prem services to cloud-native microservice APIs, cutting infrastructure dependencies and improving scheduling platform scalability
- Supervised team of 8 developers and QA engineers to to design event-driven microservices that modernized legacy flight maintenance systems, decreasing error rate by 8%
Software Engineer
Southwest Airlines
08.2018 - 07.2021
- Re-architected the Required-to-Fly application into a cloud-native microservices platform.
- Migrated on-prem infrastructure to cloud services, reducing maintenance costs by ~80%
Software Engineer Intern
Target
05.2017 - 08.2017
- Developed frontend features for an internal B2B platform using AngularJS
Education
B.S. - Computer Science, Business Minor, McCombs School of Business
University of Texas at Austin
01-2018
Skills
Product roadmapping
Product backlog management
Data-driven decision making
Market research and analysis
Product lifecycle management
Feature prioritization
Stakeholder communication
Continuous integration and deployment
Software
Python
SQL
Augment Code
API Design
Cloud Architecture (AWS)
Timeline
Technical Product Manager
NBCUniversal (Peacock)
09.2022 - Current
Technical Product Owner
Southwest Airlines
07.2021 - 09.2022
Software Engineer
Southwest Airlines
08.2018 - 07.2021
Software Engineer Intern
Target
05.2017 - 08.2017
B.S. - Computer Science, Business Minor, McCombs School of Business
University of Texas at Austin