Aubrey Suter

Principal Product Manager Manager of Product Management, Product Lead @Ad Hoc LLC

Part of a fully remote, cross-functional, cross-organizational team helping the Department of Veterans\' Affairs deliver human-centered services. I\'m the Product Lead on VA\'s Lighthouse program, which has a broad and exciting set of mandates. Our product teams have delivered and managed- Over 20 APIs across the domains of health, benefits, facilities, eligibility, and service history- A public API platform and developer portal (developer.va.gov) that enables hundreds of developers to securely leverage VA data to better serve millions of Veterans, their families, and their representatives- A delivery platform, providing delivery infrastructure that reduces overhead and enables continuous authority to operate (cATO) for developers at VA, enabling them to ship quickly, reliably, and securely- A VA-internal developer portal enabling discovery of existing services, as well as other developer resources, tooling, and information.I have been on this program in various roles almost from its inception, and have had the privileged opportunity to observe and reflect on how various decisions have panned out and evolved over the past 5+ years as the program has grown from about 10 people across a couple of teams to over 170 people across 19 teams.