Hanlin Sun
Engineer / Product Manager
Hey! I’m Hanlin, an engineer and PM based in . I graduated from UC Berkeley in EECS. Go Bears!
I currently work at Databricks as a PM for Genie Agents, an agent that helps everyone talk to their enterprise data.
I enjoy building tools that help people do more than they originally thought they could.
Experience
Databricks
Product Manager · Genie Agents
2023 – Present · San Francisco, CA
- Sole PM for Genie Agents, Databricks’ natural-language data analytics agent. Built the product from zero to XXXK monthly active users, XK weekly customer accounts, and $XXM in annualized consumption revenue.
- Worked directly with dozens of Fortune 500 companies from demo to production, translating their data workflows into product direction and partnering with executives on adoption.
- Shipped retrieval across columns and values, multi-step agent reasoning, and SQL context primitives, improving the useful conversation rate by ~50% (16% → 24% of all conversations).
- Opened Genie Agents to external applications through REST APIs and MCP, now driving 65% of conversation volume. Built monitoring, authoring APIs, and chat sharing used by 75% of weekly users.
- Ship ~3 PRs a week across product, documentation, and APIs, and build feature prototypes with coding agents to accelerate customer requests.
- Created technical demos, videos, blogs, customer stories, webinars, and conference talks reaching 75K+ combined views.
Databricks
Product Manager Intern
2022 · San Francisco, CA
- Databricks’ first PM intern and first APM hire. Shipped productivity features used by 100K+ weekly users, saving 6K minutes per week collectively.
- Audited the first-time Databricks SQL experience across data discovery, querying, and dashboard authoring, then shipped improvements to onboarding and developer productivity.
Cisco
Product Manager Intern
2021 · San Jose, CA
- Defined and prototyped Risk & Conformance for Cisco Nexus Insights, helping customers detect network drift and compliance issues through interactive reports and diagnostics.
- Took the feature from customer interviews and Figma designs to React/Python prototypes, product requirements, and engineering implementation.
- Presented requirements and prototypes to senior leadership, securing roadmap approval and engineering resources.
Block
Product Consultant Lead
2021 · Remote
- Led a 6-person consulting team investigating payment-terminal adoption in the U.S. allied health market for Block, formerly Square.
- Interviewed 100+ allied health practitioners to understand their workflows, unmet needs, and adoption barriers.
- Translated research into prioritized requirements for product features, practice-management integrations, and customer journeys, and presented recommendations to product leadership.
Education
University of California, Berkeley
2023B.S. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
EECS Honor Society (HKN) · Valley Consulting Group · Cal Practice Basketball Team
Skills
- Agents
- LLM agentsContext engineeringAgent evaluationRAGMCP
- Engineering
- PythonSQLAPIsData analyticsDatabricks