About me

I'm Riaz Liyakath, Senior Product Manager (tech) at Amazon.

I started out in chip design, moved into cloud infrastructure, and ended up in product.

I like problems that don't have clean answers. I like to think, experiment, fail, try again till it finally works.

Outside of work I watch way too many car reviews, I'm a big MKBHD fan, and I keep up with gen AI — which is basically a full-time job given how fast it changes.

Right now most of my free time goes to agentic AI — building agentic systems and figuring out what changes for product managers when software can act on its own. Still working it out.

What I'm exploring

I write up product problems end-to-end on this site — friction, system design, product bets, and tradeoffs. If any of that sounds interesting, the latest pieces are on the home page.