Aram Barnett

Built a Telegram-native social trading platform from the ground up, enabling retail traders to compete in tournaments, copy professional traders, and trade across multiple financial venues directly inside Telegram.

• •Architected a full-stack real-time trading platform integrating Hyperliquid (perps/spot) and Polymarket (prediction markets) with WebSocket-based position tracking
• •Designed and implemented a copy-trading engine that monitors on-chain wallets and auto-executes mirrored trades with configurable risk controls
• •Built batch API architecture using Hydromancer, reducing external API calls by 99% and eliminating rate-limit bottlenecks at scale
• •Implemented AI-powered market news and sentiment analysis across 1,400+ assets using xAI Grok
• •Developed non-custodial embedded wallet infrastructure using Privy for one-tap trading inside Telegram
• •Created tournament system with automated PnL tracking, leaderboards, and prize distribution across five competitive leagues
• •Shipped a high-performance Telegram Mini App with real-time portfolio updates, charts, and social feed

Tech: TypeScript, Node.js, React, Telegraf, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Redis, WebSockets, Privy, Hyperliquid API, Polymarket CLOB API, Hydromancer, xAI Grok, Fly.io, Vercel

Led product and engineering for an AI-powered video creation platform focused on real estate and enterprise marketing.

• •Built end-to-end AI video pipeline using FFmpeg and cloud-based AI services for automated editing, transitions, and voiceover
• •Designed scalable microservice architecture on Google Cloud (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub)
• •Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 80% while improving processing speed by 90%
• •Shipped cross-platform mobile and web applications
• •Owned technical roadmap while remaining hands-on across frontend and backend

Tech: TypeScript, Node.js, React, Flutter, React Native, Google Cloud, Pub/Sub, FFmpeg, Docker

Founded and led a venture-backed metaverse and Web3 solutions company serving brands and creators.

• •Built blockchain-integrated 3D applications with real-time wallet and contract interactions
• •Scaled a global contractor marketplace to 160 developers in under 30 days
• •Personally implemented smart contracts and full-stack features
• •Led product vision, fundraising, and go-to-market strategy

Tech: Unity, Solidity, Web3.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Ethereum

Owned product strategy and delivery for blockchain gaming and NFT infrastructure.

• •Designed and shipped new low-gas NFT standard adopted network-wide
• •Built developer tooling and proxy APIs for cross-chain game data
• •Led 20 engineers to ship Celebrity Smackdown, a Web3-powered game
• •Acted as bridge between engineering, business, and ecosystem partners

Built and scaled a social content platform from scratch.

• •Engineered backend systems handling 100K RPM with 99.8% uptime
• •Managed distributed engineering teams

Led product and engineering for crypto analytics SaaS.

• •Built token scoring and analytics models across 1,100+ assets
• •Managed international development teams