About

Hi, I'm Calvin.

I'm a husband, a product manager who loves to learn, and a soon-to-be graduate of Brigham Young University. Here's a little more about me.

Calvin and his wife dressed up together

Quick facts

Home base
Utah
Studying
Entrepreneurial Management, BYU
Graduating
April 2027
Favorite sport
Basketball (golf is a close second)
Favorite restaurant
Raising Cane's
Favorite movie
Forrest Gump
Calvin and his wife on a fall walk

Life outside work

My favorite person to spend time with is my wife.

You can find us on a trail, on a court, or in the stands at a game.

We're training for a half marathon right now. She's already done a Hyrox and is doing her best to get me signed up for the next one.

Favorite places

Valley Vu Golf Course at dusk, with a pond and mountains
Valley Vu Golf Course, Star Valley, WY
Sunset over the ocean in Newport Beach, California
Newport Beach, CA. One of our favorite places to visit.
BYU campus lawn with mountains in the background
BYU campus has some incredible mountain views.
Sunset from the Horse Flats hike in Provo Canyon
Sunset from Horse Flats, up Provo Canyon.
Calvin golfing in the mountains
18 months into golf and already obsessed.
Calvin and his wife at a BYU football game
In the stands at a BYU game.
Portrait of Calvin McGrath

What I do

I'm a Product Intern at Hopdox, an e-recording software company that helps businesses submit real estate documents to counties across the U.S. I own the “Request a County” feature end-to-end, which has driven 133 county requests since launch, and I analyzed 4,200+ rejection events across 150 counties to help shape an AI-based rejection-prevention system now in development.

Before Hopdox, I was a Product Manager for BYU Library IT. I gathered requirements across campus departments, wrote 50+ user stories, and ran usability interviews with students that led to a redesign of the library's item details page.

Outside of my day job, I build. I use AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor to take ideas from problem to working product: Trace, a referral platform for dental specialists I validated with 40+ orthodontic offices; a booking system for a local trailer rental business; and Triage, an agent that keeps a Linear backlog clean.

Whether it's at work or on a side project, what I love most is diving into ambiguous problems, talking to real users, and turning what I learn into something people actually use.

Toolbox

Product / Technical

Requirements gatheringBacklog prioritizationCross-functional stakeholder managementUser researchUser storiesData analysis / root cause analysisQA / requirements validation testingAgile / Scrum deliveryAI-assisted / agentic development tools

Tools

JiraLinearClaude CodeChatGPTCursorSupersetSQLSalesforceGit / GitHubExcelNext.jsReactTypeScriptSupabase / PostgresStripe