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

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.

AI AgentsLLM JudgeGenerative MediaApple PayCloud Run

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.

Knowledge GraphNERDeepSeekPolymarketKalshiRedis

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.

AIHealthcare3DVideoEnterprise

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.

AI AgentsGeminiEvals & GuardrailsGCPMarketplace

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.

TypeScriptNode.jsReactPostgreSQLRedisPrivyHyperliquidPolymarketxAI GrokTelegram

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.

NFTGamificationBlockchainHealthMobile

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.

AIAPIDigital TwinsMetaverse

Celebrity Smackdown

2021

Video game showcasing updatable NFT technology by connecting digital assets to celebrity tweets that impact gameplay.

GamingNFTsBlockchain

Vanimals

2018

First mobile application on the app store to feature blockchain-based items. Built with React and Ruby on Rails.

MobileBlockchainReact

Powerboard

2020-2022

Platform turning any video game into play-to-earn. Scaled backend to handle 100K requests per minute with 99.8% uptime.

GamingBackendWeb3

Writing

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