Product & platform strategy
Connecting customer problems, market direction, and technical possibility into a product portfolio teams can execute.
Calgary, Canada · Technology executive
Building clarity
into complexity.
I'm Kashif Altaf, a COO and product-technology executive. For more than two decades, I've helped turn ambitious enterprise software ideas into products, teams, and operating systems that scale.
Explore my workWhere I create leverage
From product intent to operating reality.
My work sits where strategy, technology, people, and execution meet—the place where complexity either compounds or becomes a competitive advantage.
Engineering leadership
Building durable teams, operating systems, and delivery practices for complex enterprise software.
Operational scale
Turning strategy into measurable execution across product, engineering, quality, support, and the wider business.
Transformation
Helping organizations move through growth, portfolio change, and new operating models without losing momentum.
Experience
A builder's path to executive leadership.
A career spanning software development, product management, engineering leadership, and company operations.
Chief Operating Officer
Userful
Executive leadership across the operating system behind a global enterprise software business, bringing product, engineering, quality, delivery, and customer outcomes into alignment.
Product & engineering leadership
Userful
Grew through product and technology leadership roles, leading software development, release management, and quality as the company and its platform evolved.
Foundation
Technical depth, commercial context.
Earlier work across software development, business analysis, project and product management built the cross-functional lens I bring to executive decisions today.
MSc, Information TechnologyCertified Scrum Professional®CSPO®CSM®
Operating perspective
Ideas I return to.
01Good strategy reduces the number of decisions a team has to make.
02Operational excellence is a product: designed, observed, and improved.
03The best technology leaders translate fluently between customers, teams, and outcomes.
Recognition & contribution
2022
Recognized among Alberta's leading R&D executives.
Named by BestStartup Canada among the province's top research and development leaders in enterprise software.
Mentorship
Long-time mentor supporting skilled newcomers as they build careers and professional networks in Canada.
Start a conversation
The best work begins with
a useful question.
I'm always interested in thoughtful conversations about product, technology, operating scale, and selective advisory work.
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