San Francisco Bay Area
I am a technologist by training and a storyteller by soul. Formerly an Engineer at Uber, I spent years building scalable systems before realizing my true passion lay in building narrative systems. As the Founder and Executive Producer of Soulscape, I now operate at the intersection of Generative AI and Cinema. My role is to be the Bridge. The Curator: I curate and champion the world's most resonant AI films, helping independent creators move from "viral clips" to "festival-grade cinema." The Producer: I connect top-tier Hollywood veterans (Pixar, Lionsgate, Sony) with Silicon Valley’s unicorn founders to define the new standard of filmmaking. The Educator: Through university partnerships (Stanford, USC, NYU), I am equipping the next generation with the ethical frameworks and tools to tell their stories. Currently orchestrating Soulscape 2026, the world's first cinema lab + summit, championing "Soul over Slop." Let's build the Generative Renaissance together.
Building the "Sundance of the AI Era." Bridging Silicon Valley Generative Tech with Hollywood Storytelling. - Executive Production: Orchestrating the Soulscape 2026: The World's First Global AI Cinema Lab + Summit (Duo-track Premier AI Cinema Event), a landmark event defining the cinematic standard for generative AI. Curating the top 200 Global AI Artists from 3,000+ global applications. - Strategic & Sponsored Partnerships: Secured high-level alliances with industry titans (Tapnow, Elevenlabs, YouArt, Minimax and etc.) and Hollywood veterans (Producers from Pixar, Lionsgate, Sony) to build a legitimate commercial pipeline for AI creators. - Ecosystem Architecture: Leading a global community of 8,000+ creators ("The Soulscape Corps"), providing the infrastructure for talent incubation, distribution, and commercialization of AI cinema.
lead the ecosystem strategy and YC launch sprint for YouArt, a platform empowering authentic storytellers with monetization infrastructure. Key Deliverables during the YC Sprint: • Strategy & GTM: Architected the "A24 + Y Combinator of the AI era" narrative, successfully bridging Silicon Valley tech with top-tier Hollywood creatives. • Ecosystem Acquisition: Directed Los Angeles BD operations, onboarding elite Hollywood veterans (ex-Disney, Sony) and a proprietary network of top-tier AI filmmakers to the platform. • Product Architecture: Drove the UI/UX design and core logic for monetization layer of Original IP. • Creative Direction: Developed initial visual prototypes and sourced elite AI filmmaker assets for YouArt's go-to-market.
Driving the mass adoption of Generative AI through high-impact education and community product leadership. - Thought Leadership: Established one of the most influential AI-tech communities in the region, generating 12M+ views and driving market awareness for emerging AI tools (from VR to LLMs). - Community-Led Product Development: Acted as the Lead Product Manager for a community-driven AI software project. Shipped an offline LLM tool and iterated through 5 major versions based on direct feedback from a 7,500+ member developer/user group. - Market Intelligence: Leveraged a 75,000+ subscriber base as a real-time user research lab to validate product-market fit for new AI workflows, serving as a bridge between complex tech and end-user application.
- Product Leadership: Drove the end-to-end lifecycle of a proprietary SaaS platform (app.nex-gem.com) that automated influencer marketing workflows, improving operational efficiency by 80%. - Revenue Impact: Engineered a data-driven ROI framework correlating social metrics with POS data, generating $1.2M+ in revenue for clients in year one. - System Architecture: Built the company’s GTM engine and CRM infrastructure, establishing the "Single Source of Truth" for scalable sales operations.
- Platform Architecture: Co-authored the architectural vision for Uber's Membership platform, managing complex microservices debt to unlock developer velocity. - Critical Systems: Led the development of the Membership Product Gateway (gRPC), significantly reducing latency (p99) and enabling safe, isolated rollbacks for high-traffic financial transactions. - Cross-Functional Leadership: Partnered with Product and Data Science teams to translate business requirements into scalable backend systems for "Uber One for Enterprise."