APR 2026 — PRESENT
Founding Engineer
Janusly · San Jose, CA
- Built and operate Janusly, a live AI platform that helps creators and small businesses turn trending short-form videos into finished, ready-to-post ads. It began as a hackathon finalist, then I rebuilt it from the ground up to serve real, paying customers.
- Designed the full product from idea to finished ad: surfacing what is trending across the major short-form platforms, turning any video into a complete ad concept through an AI agent, and generating the images and video to produce it, all in one place.
- Built the AI generation engine that creates images and video through several AI models, with automatic recovery when a job fails so users reliably get a finished result instead of a dead end.
- Engineered a credit-based billing system that charges only for successful work, refunds failed jobs automatically, and is protected against duplicate charges, keeping revenue and customer trust accurate.
- Kept the platform fast and dependable as usage grew, using caching and performance work to protect response times and control the cost of the AI services running behind the product.
- Owned every layer of the product, from the creative tools and AI systems to billing, customer plans, and the internal dashboards that track cost against revenue.
