# Aram Barnett > CTO / Lead Product Engineer — real-time systems + applied AI | built B2B APIs + trading infra Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/aram 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. I’ve served as a CTO, founder, senior product manager, and lead engineer, and I’m most effective where deep technical execution and strong product judgment overlap. Recently, I built a Telegram-native social trading platform from the ground up—integrating real-time trading, copy trading, non-custodial wallets, AI-driven market intelligence, and tournament mechanics—used entirely inside Telegram. The system supports live WebSocket position tracking, on-chain wallet monitoring, and AI-powered market sentiment analysis across 1,400+ assets. Previously, I led product and engineering for an AI-powered video platform, designing cloud-native pipelines that reduced processing time by 90% and infrastructure costs by 80%. I’ve also built and shipped Web3 and FinTech products including trading analytics platforms, NFT standards adopted network-wide, and consumer applications handling high-throughput, real-time traffic. What I do best: - Build AI-powered products that actually ship - Architect real-time, distributed systems - Translate complex technical systems into clear product roadmaps - Own products end-to-end—from concept through production and scale I’m interested in senior Product Engineer or Technical Product Manager roles in: - AI & applied machine learning - FinTech, trading, and financial infrastructure - Crypto and emerging financial platforms - High-growth, product-led companies If you’re building something technically hard, user-facing, and impactful—I’m happy to talk. ## Work Experience ### Chief Technology Officer @ motionmarkets Jan 2025 – Present 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 ### Chief Technology Officer @ Curbily Jan 2024 – Jan 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 ### Founder @ WrldBuilder Jan 2022 – Jan 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 ### Senior Product Manager @ Nervos Network Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 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 ### Partner @ 721Collective Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 We design, develop, and build NFTs for a range of creative projects. ### Co-Founder @ Powerboard Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Powerboard turns any video game into a play to earn game. ● Led pivot of company from gaming hardware products to play to earn infrastructure services after overseas manufacturers were shut down during the pandemic. Received several acquisition offers. ● Successfully recruited and managed a distributed team, fostering a strong company culture amid remote work ● Formulated and executed grassroots and paid advertising strategies, resulting in consistent +60% month-over-month growth of discord bot downloads ● Incorporated user feedback and application data to lead product development and achieve a 40% user retention rate. ● Leveraged Xbox integrated messaging platform to reach beachhead market users cheaply. Reached out to 5k leads and got a 13% conversion rate for under $1k ● Created product and company roadmap. Produced wireframes and prototypes for developer portal, web application, and Xbox application. Collaborated with engineers to create documentation and use cases for open source Proxy API for developers to access player game data ### Crypto Intelligence Lead @ TRM Labs Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area - Collected and curated critical data for anti-money laundering systems. Trained, hired, and managed a global remote team of 15 people - Collaborated with engineering teams to make key product decisions while managing constrained resources and client needs - Created KPIs and dashboards to guide key managerial and resource deployment decisions. - Led end to end development of data collection tooling and improved data collection process by creating an application to gamify the collection for analyst; leading to a cost reduction of 15% and increased data collection rate by 50% - Navigated tradeoffs between data collection, company integrity, and security - Development stack comprised of MySQL, Webflow, Zapier, GCP, and Airflow ### Entrepreneur In Residence @ Human Ventures Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Human Ventures is a startup studio. ● Created Vanimals, a digital collectible that allowed players to buy and breed digital pets on mobile. Created hardware products to accompany the application where users could interact with their Vanimals in 4D hologram form. ● Designed and led the engineering of a private permissioned blockchain network built on Fabric to run a distributed video game network; grew a community across 70 universities and organizations to work on applications atop the network ● Founding member of Onward Labs, the blockchain investment arm of Human Ventures where I served as Chief Innovation Officer; oversaw the new venture creation process and led technical due diligence on all incoming deal flow ### Founder @ CoinScore Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Coin Score is a cryptocurrency data analytics platform. While at CoinScore I: Created Coinscore methodology to rate and assess crypto assets; scaled the methodology to encompass 400 data points that were applied to 2,167 tokens. • Conducted external user research to develop product roadmaps based on the needs of customers and development resources; optimized the user experience, resulting in high levels of client satisfaction and retention. • Facilitated acquisition discussions with multinational C-Suite executives from major financial companies. • Coordinated an international team of developers in designing and architecting the CoinScore platform; implemented plans to expand the user base from 0 to 10K MAU over the lifetime of the product. ### Co-Founder, Head of Venture Creation @ Alluminate Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Alluminate is a blockchain venture creation studio. While at Alluminate I: • Raised $750K in venture capital; generated $2M in contracting and consulting contracts. • Ideated, developed, and launched several internal startups such as the Cerberus security system, which was piloted by the DHS and Cryptopets, one of the first blockchain-based video games played by 10K+ users. • Managed a team of 15 full-time engineers and analysts across 4 time zones. ### Co-Founder @ CryptoPets Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 CryptoPets is a platform where people can manage, train, battle, and breed their portfolio of CryptoPets. The launch of CryptoKitties on November 28th, 2017 has shown there is a demand for scarce digital assets. We plan to use the CryptoPets platform to pioneer using blockchain to power a new class of digital assets via a new protocol known as ERC-721. Our goal is to introduce blockchain technology to the masses through a user-friendly dApp, using inspiration from platforms like Pokemon Go and NeoPets. ### Summer Intern @ Cantor Fitzgerald Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area While at Cantor Fitzgerald I: ⭐️worked with senior partners to raise $1bn in funding for the development of homes in Nigeria ⭐️Created a program using dynamic data sets to determine appropriate mortgage prices for potential buyers ⭐️Researched and presented information on states in Nigeria with in-depth information on demographics, income, and regional cultures. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Physics and Economics (DO) Morehouse College ### buildspace ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arambarnett - Website: http://arambarnett.dev --- Source: https://flows.cv/aram JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aram/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29