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Eric Han

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Vice President Of Product Management at NetApp
📍 Sunnyvale, California, United States

Eric Han is the Co-founder and CEO of Chinchill AI, a firm building AI agents for IT automation. With a track record of scaling products to millions in revenue, he previously led Cloud Product Management at NetApp. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School and engineering degrees from the University of Illinois.

Eric actively supports diversity in the technology sector, serving as a board member for Thrive-WiSE, a non-profit for technical women. Colleagues describe him as insightful and persistent, with a unique ability to distill complex problems to their core essence. His entrepreneurial spirit was evident even during his university days as a co-founder of an entrepreneurship group.

Unique fact: He was the first-ever Product Manager for Kubernetes at Google, where he wrote the initial product requirement documents.

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Experience
21 Years
Current Role
Vice President Of Product Management
Location
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Priorities

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AI for IT
As CEO of Chinchill AI, he is focused on building agentic AI to automate and improve IT support workflows, such as password resets and ticket analysis.
Product Management
A career product leader, he actively shares his thoughts on the evolving role of PMs and the importance of product requirement documents (PRDs) in the age of AI.
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Career

Work history

11-2019 - 6-2024
Vice President Of Product Management
NetApp
6-2019 - 6-2021
Board Member
Thrive-WiSE
9-2016 - 11-2019
VP Product Management
Portworx
8-2015 - 8-2016
Senior Director of Product Management
Portworx
3-2014 - 8-2015
Product Manager, Google Container Engine (co-founder) & Kubernetes (first PM)
Google
In the press

Media appearances

Eric Han – Guest on DataCentric Podcast (NetApp). Featured in DataCentric Podcast
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Education
2011 - 2013
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
The Wharton School
1995 - 2002
BSEE
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Master of Engineering (MEng)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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