Brian Bautista

Creative Technologist and AI Engineer with 16+ years across infrastructure, creative leadership, and AI engineering. I build AI systems that run in production every day, not demos: Google Cloud automation, internal data products, and tools creative teams adopt because they fit how those teams already work. I have done both halves of the job, which is unusual. Thirteen years at GoDaddy that began in server administration and website security and ended in art direction, and now a role at Trusted Media Brands that is explicitly both.

1. Creative Technologist & Data Scientist

   Trusted Media Brands · 2026-Present

   Runs brand creative and builds the internal AI tools across the whole TMB portfolio, from Reader's Digest and Taste of Home to FailArmy and The Pet Collective.

   • Leads the creative team behind every TMB brand's marketing: designers, a photographer, and copywriters across the US and India, handling 600+ digital and 500+ print requests a year.
   • Builds and runs the internal AI tools and data products, from first prototype to production.
   • Works with the data, engineering, and product teams to turn automation ideas into tools people actually use, then measures whether they worked.
   • Teaches the rest of the company to use AI day to day, technical and non-technical alike.

2. Senior Art Director

   Trusted Media Brands · 2023-2026

   Promoted to Creative Technologist & Data Scientist in March 2026.

   • Set the visual direction for TMB's brands and led the marketing design department across digital, print, social, and streaming.
   • Mentored the design team and set creative direction across photography, typography, and campaign work.
   • Rebuilt how the team worked and brought AI into daily production, which is what led to the technologist role.

3. Art Director

   GoDaddy · 2019-2023

   Tempe, AZ.

   • Directed the B2B brand system and CGI product renders for the Poynt POS line: 70,000+ device orders in 2022 and a role in a multimillion-dollar FIS Worldpay deal.
   • Hit 25% of the annual Apple Tap to Pay target in the first month on the market and drove 28.5% B2C growth on the Poynt Smart Terminal.
   • Helped launch GoDaddy Pro through video, brand identity, and paid social: 1.5M+ Pros in the base by Q4 2021.
   • Built the creative process the marketing team ran on, through the years GoDaddy grew into its first $1B+ quarter.

4. Brand Designer

   GoDaddy · 2017-2019

   Tempe, AZ.

   • Designed brand campaigns and marketing materials across digital channels.
   • Worked with product and marketing on visual strategy and design systems.

5. Technical Support, Web Administration & Security

   GoDaddy · 2010-2019

   Tempe, AZ.

   • Managed servers, fixed what broke, and pulled malware off hacked sites.
   • Ran security audits and threat detection. It is still the reason I know how things break.

• Éclat Aesthetica

  Éclat Spa & Wellness · 2026 · Live

  The whole brand for a new med spa, and the site it lives on: a logo system, a brand book, the photography, and a website that takes bookings. Five weeks, start to finish.

  Live: eclatazmedspa.com

• Magazine Cover Pipeline

  Trusted Media Brands · 2026 · Live

  A new cover PDF becomes the live cover on every landing page, order page and email that shows one. Nobody touches it. All five TMB brands.

• StockPull

  Trusted Media Brands · 2026 · Live

  One search box over the stock libraries a photo editor lives in, with every result ranked and every rank showing its working.

• Analytics Dashboard

  Trusted Media Brands · 2026 · Live

  The reporting stack that retired an enterprise subscription. Now the team owns its own numbers.

• AI Photo-to-Timelapse App

  OneLapse · 2025-Present · Live

  One photo in, a cinematic timelapse out. Live at onelapse.app, with 500+ registered users.

  Live: onelapse.app

• AI Video Generator

  Starrd (Co-founded) · 2026-Present · Live

  Two of us took an AI video generator from nothing to 3,000+ registered users in about five months, shipping on iOS and on the web at once, with real money moving through it. Live at getstarrd.app.

  Live: getstarrd.app

Engineering & data

AI Engineering, AI Integration, Internal AI Tools, Data Science, Creative Technology, Full-Stack Development, Prompt Engineering, Workflow Automation, Process Optimization, Rapid Prototyping, Exploratory Analysis, Model Evaluation

Creative

Art Direction, Creative Direction, Creative Strategy, Creative Operations, Brand Strategy, Brand Identity, Brand & Advertising, Campaign Development, Visual Design, Typography, Photography, Videography, Video Production, Video Editing, Motion Graphics, Animation, Color Grading, Storyboarding, Email Marketing, Social Media, Paid Media, Team Leadership

AI & Models

Claude, Claude Code, Claude Design, Cursor, ChatGPT, Gemini, GPT Image 2, Nano Banana Pro, Nano Banana 2, Seedance 2.0, Midjourney, Runway ML, Adobe Firefly, ElevenLabs, Higgsfield, Kie.ai, v0.dev

Data Science

Python, SQL, JupyterLab, BigQuery, dbt, CLIP, Embeddings & Vector Search

Cloud & Infrastructure

Google Cloud Platform, Eventarc, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, Identity-Aware Proxy, Permutive, Supabase, Firebase, Vercel, AWS, DigitalOcean

Languages & Frameworks

TypeScript, Python, React, Next.js, SwiftUI, Stripe, RevenueCat, WordPress

Creative Production

Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve

Platforms & Systems

Enterprise DAM systems, Publishing & editorial systems, Getty, Adobe Stock, Printify, Etsy, Sellfy, Pixieset, GoDaddy

Open to Forward Deployed Engineer, Creative Technologist, AI Engineer, and AI Creative Strategist roles, and to project work building internal AI tools and automation, including for small businesses.

The fastest way to reach me is [email protected].