John Azzinaro New York

Fieldnotes

Product manager who designs and builds software.

New York. I work on small tools where the craft shows — a film-inspired camera, a quiet place to write, and whatever I could not find off the shelf.

Existing Nitrate marketing sample
Nitrate — an existing marketing sample. Final imagery pending.
Canonic, a local-first writing workspace
Canonic — a local-first writing workspace. Markdown on your machine, versioned with Git.

Personal photographs to come.

Projects

Nitrate

A film-inspired video camera for iPhone. Record, render on device, and save to Photos.

Product preview →
iPhone

Canonic

A local-first writing workspace. Plain markdown files you own, versioned with Git, built for product work.

Product preview →
Desktop

Earlier work

  • 2026

    OpenVelo

    Open-source terminal trainer control for virtual cycling. Smart trainer, workouts, GPX routes, Strava.

    github.com/johnjazzi/open-velo

    16-bit bicycle mark: two pixel-art wheels joined by a frame

    16×16, two wheels and a frame.

  • 2025

    OI

    Real-time translation built for iOS. Speech in one language, translation out in another, running on the phone.

    Working name OI — no repository link until the project it lives in is confirmed.

    Speech bubble mark with two lines of text inside

    A speech bubble — talk in, translation out.

  • 2022

    Canonical v0

    A Vue SaaS for product artifacts — the first attempt at the workspace that became Canonic.

    Pivoted — the SaaS shape fought the vision. Rebuilt local-first as Canonic. Source repo is private; no public link.

  • 2017

    Robo Lincoln

    A character-level RNN trained on Lincoln's writing to generate new text in his voice — an early language model, before that was a category.

    github.com/johnjazzi/Robo_lincoln

    8-bit portrait mark: a bearded man in a stovepipe hat

    16×16, drawn from the model's namesake.

Resume

  • Capital OneSenior Product Manager2025 – present
  • AWSSenior Product Manager, Technical2022 – 2024
  • RTXSenior Product Manager2019 – 2022
  • Fiat ChryslerDesign Engineer2013 – 2016

Draft — owner confirmation needed.

github.com/johnjazzi

John Azzinaro — New York — johnazz.dev