Thomas Patella

I build the software that
decides what freight costs
— and keeps the humans in the loop.

Thirteen years of enterprise pricing and revenue management, most of it in transportation and logistics. Today I own AI-driven pricing optimization for LTL freight at XPO: the models that recommend a rate, and the tools that let a person understand the recommendation well enough to stand behind it.


Pricing systems

Rate recommendation, dynamic pricing and margin optimization for freight — the software that decides what a shipment should cost.

Models into production

Taking machine learning from a data scientist’s notebook to a system that answers in real time, and staying honest about what it can and cannot do.

Decision support

Building for the person on the other end of the recommendation — the seller who has thirty seconds and needs a number they can defend.


Where I’ve been

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  1. Jan 2026 — PresentLead Product Manager · XPO
  2. Jul 2024 — Jan 2026Senior Product Manager · Allied Outdoor Solutions
  3. Feb 2022 — Jun 2024Product Manager, Transportation & Logistics · PROS

Currently

Pricing optimization at XPO. Off the clock, a small pile of self-hosted things and whatever they teach me about running software I actually have to keep alive.

Also

Two years abroad between 2016 and 2018. Advanced Spanish, a computer science and mathematics degree, and a long-standing weakness for spreadsheets that should have been programs.

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