
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