I build and scale complex, real-world products at the intersection of AI, finance, and magical user experiences. I’m a technical product leader and hands-on product engineer with 10+ years of experience taking products from 0→1 and 1→scale across AI, trading, crypto, and consumer platforms.
Built the intelligence layer for prediction markets: a cross-venue arbitrage platform, entity knowledge graph, real-time alerts system, and B2B API serving retail traders via Telegram and institutional clients via API.
Architected an entity graph of 24,000+ canonical entities (people, teams, orgs, assets) with typed attributes, relationships, and market exposures across 22 automated data connectors including ESPN, GDELT, CoinGecko, FRED, FDA, Congress.gov, and Wikipedia
Built cross-venue arbitrage infrastructure for Polymarket and Kalshi, matching equivalent markets, detecting mispricings in real time via WebSockets, and generating spread-based trade signals
Designed a real-time alert engine across 8 categories including injury, political, finance, arbitrage, conflict/OSINT, and personalized alerts, delivered via Telegram, WebSockets, SSE, and webhooks
Shipped a B2B API platform with API keys, Stripe billing, webhook delivery, rate limiting, developer docs, and CLI tooling
Built AI-powered entity discovery and linking pipelines using DeepSeek-V3 for NER extraction, entity-to-market matching, confidence scoring, and taxonomy classification
Architected a multi-venue trading platform integrating Polymarket, Kalshi, and Hyperliquid, plus Privy wallets, copy trading, and tournament-based PnL tracking
Scaled backend systems with Redis caching, leader election, batch processing, and 30+ services orchestrated from a single entry point
Tech: TypeScript, Node.js, React, Express, PostgreSQL, Prisma, Redis, WebSockets, DeepSeek-V3, Privy, Stripe, Fly.io, Vercel
2024 — 2025
Los Angeles, CA
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
2022 — 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
WrldBuilder is a venture backed metaverse solutions company. As the internet evolves from 2D websites to 3D immersive experiences, WrldBuilder helps brands and businesses develop their metaverse strategy, build in the metaverse, and manage their metaverse assets.
● Raised $1m from Venture Capitalist; Spearheaded the development of metaverse and AR/VR projects, achieving product launches across mobile, VR, and PC platforms
● Created a metaverse developer marketplace, led go to market and achieved an average of 100% month-over-month growth for the lifetime of the platform through grassroots marketing campaigns
● Drove sales and ideation pipelines for corporate metaverse development; Directly responsible for establishing and nurturing relationships with C-level executives at multinational corporations
● Collaborated with engineering teams and contractors to create and test user interactions and navigation methods in AR/VR environments
● Prepared and delivered metrics and financial reports to the board of directors every two weeks. Reduced monthly burn rate by $12k by automating repetitive tasks, negotiating contracts with service providers, and leveraging AI to create content
Building NFTs, Gaming, and Metaverse tools and infrastructure.
● Invented and led ecosystem adoption of a new NFT standard for Nervos Network L1 blockchain developers to integrate data into
their digital assets, turning them into composable and updatable assets
● Created the Celebrity Smackdown video game, which showcases the technology by connecting NFTs to celebrity tweets which
impacted gameplay. Grew social media and discord to 1,000 members and generated $37k in monthly NFT sales
● Scaled and managed a remote team of 20 engineers, product managers, and marketers with an annual budget of $1m; Worked
daily with third party contractors to increase output and reach multiple milestones including NFT standard documentation and
multi channel marketing campaigns
● Led the roadmapping, UI/UX, tokenomics, and go to market efforts for music NFT marketplace Frequency which was planned to
be preinstalled on 1bn cellphones on Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo networks
2021 — 2022
We design, develop, and build NFTs for a range of creative projects.
Education
Morehouse College
Bachelor’s Degree
buildspace