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Aram Barnett

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

atCurbily

Jul 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

atWrldBuilder

Oct 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 Network

Jun 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 Labs

Dec 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 Ventures

Apr 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

atCoinScore

Sep 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

TypeScriptJavaScriptPythonDartSQLHTMLCSSSolidity

Frameworks & Infrastructure

ReactReact NativeExpoFlutterNext.jsNode.jsPostgresApollo/GraphQLGraphQLAWSGoogle Cloud PlatformFly.ioVercelXcodeCloud RunPub/SubGitHub ActionsSentryGrafana

AI & Agent Systems

AI PipelinesMulti-Agent OrchestrationEvals & GuardrailsAgent Memory & RetrievalKnowledge GraphsEntity Extraction / NERMCP ServersGeminiClaudeDeepSeekVector DatabasesAI Cost InstrumentationTrading Algorithms

Blockchain & Web3

Smart ContractsOn-Chain AnalysisEVM ChainsPolymarketHyperliquidPrivyNFT StandardsDeFiTokenomicsHyperledger Fabric

Product & Leadership

Product ManagementTechnical ArchitectureTeam LeadershipUser ResearchTrello