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Aram Barnett
Product Engineer
AI product engineer with 10+ years shipping products from 0 to production. I build complete agent systems — LLM pipelines with evals, guardrails, memory, and retrieval — plus entity graphs and knowledge systems across fintech, crypto, and media. Venture-backed founder with one successful exit. Currently CTO at Curbily, where an AI agent pipeline turns raw scripts into validated budgets, schedules, and crew — and hands-on in code every day.
Experience
CTO & Lead Product Engineer
atCurbilyJul 2024 - Present
AI operating system for vertical-drama content production — script breakdowns to crew sourcing.
- ▸Architected and built the multi-agent pipeline (Gemini) turning unstructured scripts into validated budgets, schedules, cast/shot lists, and scene breakdowns
- ▸Shipped the full agent harness: evals checking budget and shot-list accuracy against test sets, guardrails enforcing union-rate floors, retrieval over web/local search and SAG rate data, and memory across tool calls
- ▸Built the enrichment engine producing 2,900+ creator profiles from raw agency rosters, refreshed nightly at ~$40/run
- ▸Cut cloud costs ~80% and processing time ~90%; instrumented AI spend and rebuilt pricing to a 97% gross margin
- ▸Run a 15-role internal AI agent organization (engineering, QA, design review, content, ops) letting a 3-person team ship like 20
Founder
atWrldBuilderOct 2022 - Jul 2024
Venture-backed metaverse solutions company helping brands develop 3D immersive experiences. Led development of multiple cutting-edge projects including room-scale AR exhibits, community gaming platforms, and virtual events. Shipped products on mobile, VR, and PC platforms.
- ▸Designed and developed metaverse developer marketplace with 100% MoM growth
- ▸Managed sales pipeline for corporate metaverse development with multinational corporations
- ▸Led cross-functional teams across engineering, design, and product
Senior Product Manager
atNervos NetworkJun 2021 - Nov 2022
Built NFTs, gaming, and metaverse technology on blockchain infrastructure.
- ▸Invented and led adoption of a new NFT standard enabling updatable on-chain data
- ▸Created Celebrity Smackdown video game showcasing dynamic NFT technology
- ▸Managed team of 20 remote engineers and product managers
- ▸Drove product decisions through market research and hypothesis testing
Crypto Intelligence Lead
atTRM LabsDec 2019 - May 2020
Built critical data infrastructure for anti-money laundering systems.
- ▸Trained, hired, and managed global remote team of 15 people
- ▸Developed data collection tooling that reduced costs by 15% and increased collection rate by 50%
- ▸Created KPIs and dashboards for resource deployment decisions
- ▸Tech stack: MySQL, GCP, Airflow
Entrepreneur In Residence
atHuman VenturesApr 2018 - Nov 2019
Startup studio building next-generation blockchain products.
- ▸Designed permissioned blockchain network on Hyperledger Fabric for distributed gaming
- ▸Grew developer community to 1.5K across 70 universities and organizations
- ▸Directed development of Vanimals, first mobile app with blockchain-based items
- ▸Established Onward Labs, blockchain investment arm performing technical due diligence
Founder
atCoinScoreSep 2016 - Mar 2018
Cryptocurrency data analytics platform rating digital assets.
- ▸Created methodology encompassing 400 data points across 2,167 tokens
- ▸Conducted user research to develop product roadmaps and optimize UX
- ▸Scaled platform to 10K monthly active users
- ▸Facilitated acquisition discussions with major financial companies
Skills & Technologies
Languages
Frameworks & Infrastructure
AI & Agent Systems
Blockchain & Web3
Product & Leadership
Recent Projects
Shipped end to end — architecture, AI pipeline, product, and deployment
Slop Fight
2026
Multiplayer iMessage battle game built, shipped, and monetized in 72 hours: an LLM judge scores the comedy, generative image renders composite players' real selfies, video finishers, and $2.99 Apple Pay purchases in-chat — strangers paying within 48 hours of launch. Chassis forked into a second game (Sprouts Text, grant-funded by the Aptos Foundation) in one evening.
MarketMotion
2025
Prediction-market intelligence layer: a 17,000+ entity knowledge graph over 22 automated connectors, AI entity discovery/NER and hop-proximity linking (DeepSeek-V3) with confidence scoring, cross-venue arbitrage across Polymarket and Kalshi, and a real-time alert engine with a B2B API.
ClarityMD
2025
Revolutionary patient aftercare platform using AI metahumans to deliver personalized video instructions. HIPAA-compliant system with 85% reduction in readmissions and 92% patient satisfaction across 500+ healthcare facilities.
Curbily
Jul 2024 - Present
AI operating system for vertical-drama production. Multi-agent Gemini pipeline turns raw scripts into validated budgets, schedules, and shot lists — with evals, union-rate guardrails, retrieval over SAG rate data, and memory across tool calls. 2,900+ enriched creator profiles refreshed nightly.
Metagame
2025
Built Telegram-native social trading platform from the ground up. Integrated Hyperliquid (perps/spot) and Polymarket with real-time WebSocket position tracking. Designed copy trading engine with configurable risk parameters, batch API integration reducing external calls by 99%, AI-powered news aggregation via xAI Grok across 1,400+ assets, and non-custodial Privy wallet infrastructure.
Sprouts
2025 (Launching Feb 1, 2026)
Gamified habit tracking app where your daily actions power a living NFT companion. Built on Aptos blockchain, integrates with Strava, Github, Duolingo, and more to turn progress into ownership.
Earlier Work
Continuum: Persistent Digital Twins
Nov 2023
Concept for user data driven API platform integrating generative AI to create responsive, persistent digital twins across the metaverse.
Celebrity Smackdown
2021
Video game showcasing updatable NFT technology by connecting digital assets to celebrity tweets that impact gameplay.
Vanimals
2018
First mobile application on the app store to feature blockchain-based items. Built with React and Ruby on Rails.
Powerboard
2020-2022
Platform turning any video game into play-to-earn. Scaled backend to handle 100K requests per minute with 99.8% uptime.
Writing
View AllThe Next 18–36 Months
A book of trades and the theses behind them — AI × crypto, agent payments, Hyperliquid, prediction markets, MSTR, and where I'm allocating my own money. Not advice. My book.
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