# Brian Bautista, Resume

Creative Technologist & AI Engineer
Mesa, Arizona, United States

Contact: hello@brianbautista.com
Web: https://brianbautista.com
Resume (print / save as PDF): https://brianbautista.com/resume
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bbautista1
GitHub: https://github.com/itsbriyon

Last updated: 2026-07-13

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> download. Everything here is on brianbautista.com. No phone number and no
> personal email address appear in this file by design. hello@brianbautista.com
> reaches me and is read personally.
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> This file is a MIRROR, not a source. The human-readable, printable version is
> the page at /resume, which renders straight from content/experience.ts,
> content/work.ts and content/stack.ts — so a role or a project changes in one
> place and every surface follows. Edit those, then mirror the change here.
>
> ON THE TWO TITLES, because it looks like a mistake and it is not: the line at
> the top of this file says "Creative Technologist & AI Engineer" and the Trusted
> Media Brands entry below says "Creative Technologist & Data Scientist". The
> second is the title his employer actually gave him in March 2026 and it is
> reported exactly as issued. The first is POSITIONING — the job he is asking to
> be considered for, which is what a resume headline is for and what the work
> below evidences. Do not "fix" either one into the other.

## Summary

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.

## Experience

### Creative Technologist & Data Scientist, Trusted Media Brands

**2026-Present**

Runs brand creative and builds the internal AI tools across the whole TMB
portfolio, including Reader's Digest, Taste of Home, Family Handyman, Birds &
Blooms, At Home with Family Handyman, FailArmy, The Pet Collective, People Are
Awesome, and WeatherSpy.

- 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.

### 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.

### 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.

### 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.

### 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.

## Selected work

Seven of thirteen. The full index, with a written case study for each one, is at
https://brianbautista.com/#work.

| Project | Org | When | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Brand Identity & Website](https://brianbautista.com/work/eclat-aesthetica) | Éclat Aesthetica (Client) | 2026 · Live | A new med spa, from no brand at all to a full identity and a booking website, solo, in five weeks. Live at eclatazmedspa.com. |
| [Magazine Cover Pipeline](https://brianbautista.com/work/magazine-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, about three covers a month. |
| [StockPull](https://brianbautista.com/work/stockpull) | Trusted Media Brands | 2026 · Live | One search box across four commercial stock and DAM libraries, with results ranked on what the picture actually looks like. |
| [Analytics Dashboard](https://brianbautista.com/work/analytics-dashboard) | Trusted Media Brands | 2026 · Live | The reporting stack that retired an enterprise subscription. Now the team owns its own numbers. |
| [Ad Campaign Organizer](https://brianbautista.com/work/ad-campaign-organizer) | Independent | 2025-Present · Live | A full-stack ad tool in daily use by two teams — creative and performance marketing — who build, proof and approve every ad they run through it. Around 120 ad variants a month, each proofed inside the real Meta or Google frame it ships in. Built solo, still maintained against their requests. |
| [AI Photo-to-Timelapse App](https://brianbautista.com/work/onelapse) | OneLapse (Co-founded) | 2025-Present · Live | One photo in, a cinematic timelapse out. Live at [onelapse.app](https://onelapse.app), 500+ registered users. Co-founded with Ian Brillantes; I led product, design, and the front end. |
| [AI Video Generator](https://brianbautista.com/work/starrd) | Starrd (Co-founded) | 2026-Present · Live | An AI video generator on iOS and web. Live at [getstarrd.app](https://getstarrd.app), 3,000+ registered users. Co-founded with Ian Brillantes; I led product, design, and the front end. |

## Skills

The full, current index lives in content/stack.ts and renders at
https://brianbautista.com/resume and https://brianbautista.com/#stack. The short
version:

**AI & engineering:** AI systems that run in production, Google Cloud automation
(Eventarc, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, BigQuery, dbt), internal AI tooling, forward
deployed engineering, model orchestration, workflow automation, rapid
prototyping, full-stack development

**Product:** Next.js, TypeScript, React, Supabase, Stripe, RevenueCat, Vercel

**Creative:** art direction, creative direction, brand strategy, campaign
development, design systems, photography and video direction, motion design,
creative operations, team leadership

## Availability

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.

Project work is priced per project and quoted after a conversation about what the
project involves. There is no public rate card, because the work ranges from a
Google Cloud automation to a brand film and those are not the same job.

The fastest way to reach me is hello@brianbautista.com.

See also: https://brianbautista.com/hire.md