AI Engineer + AI Filmmaker · Rotterdam, NL

I build AI systems —and direct the AI films that fill them.

Part engineer, part AI filmmaker. I build the AI systems, agents, and automation — then direct the AI films and campaigns that bring them to life. One operator, from first frame to final delivery.

Full-time / teamEmail me Intro / callBook a call

Two disciplines

Where would you like to start?

I build the systems, and I direct the films that fill them. Open either one — the other stays a click away.

Capability 01

Marketing / Creative

Make the brand felt.

What you get: AI video, brand films, campaign strategy, creative direction, and character-building that turns a product into a story people can remember.

Building a CharacterBrokerBeeUFC Freedom 250

01 / Make people feel

Building a Character

A product-led character campaign for an unnamed Denver jewelry brand. Original necklace photography becomes polished campaign imagery, then a rooftop story places the product inside a human moment.

RAW → STYLED→ STORY

Raw product photograph of a blue pendant necklace

Close raw product photograph of the pendant on a black display

Alternate raw product photograph of the necklace

01RAW

Start with the object.

Three straightforward product photographs establish the necklace clearly: shape, stone, setting, and scale.

Original product photography

Styled campaign image of the blue pendant

Blue pendant styled against deep blue fabric

Alternate luxury-styled campaign image of the necklace

02STYLED

Build a visual world.

The same product gains art direction: deeper blue, controlled light, richer material cues, and a campaign-ready setting.

Styled campaign imagery

Woman wearing the blue pendant at a Denver rooftop gathering

Rooftop campaign sequence featuring the pendant and Denver skyline

Friends toasting in the final rooftop story frame

03STORY

Give the product a life.

A Denver rooftop at dusk turns a still product into a character-led sequence: anticipation, connection, a toast, and the necklace inside the memory.

13-frame narrative + motion study

The full sequence

Thirteen frames. One product becomes a moment.

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The conclusion · motion

From a simple object to a story that connects the business with the customer.

The final clip carries the same character, product, and Denver rooftop atmosphere into motion—the payoff to RAW → STYLED → STORY.

Character study · DenverThe character movesAn eight-second portrait motion study carries the same character, product, and rooftop atmosphere into video.

Creative direction · AI video · campaigns

Brand and event films, built to earn attention.

Lightweight posters appear first. The full media does not enter the network until you choose a film.

AI-led brand film · Greater DenverBrokerBeeA brand film for a real-estate client-concierge service helping agents support homeowners after closing through practical home services, local resources, and ongoing follow-up.

AI-led event promotion · 2026UFC Freedom 250A promotional video built around the White House event and its Alex Pereira–Ciryl Gane heavyweight co-main event.

Capability 02

AI Development

Put production AI to work.

What you get: voice agents, hiring and training systems, retrieval, prospecting automation, and e-commerce builds designed around a real operating need.

EdwardsMayaVI-AB2B PipelineEmé

Client work · voice system

AI Voice Receptionist — Edwards Pipe & Tobacco

A voice agent answering over a 2,600-product catalog via RAG — Twilio telephony, ElevenLabs voice, and retrieval over the product database.

What happens on a call

A caller asks. The AI finds the answer.

The receptionist handles the conversation and checks the catalog before it answers.

01Phone ringsA customer calls the store.
02AI answersThe voice agent understands the request.
03Catalog searchedIt checks 2,600+ product records.
04Call resolvedThe caller gets a useful answer.~80% resolved

Under the hood

Live call · illustrative

caller · Do you carry Peterson pipes?

agent · Checks the 2,600-product catalog → answers → call resolved.

TwilioElevenLabsRAG over product DB

Honest framing: case-study metrics are presented as reported, not as mass-rollout benchmarks.

~80%

of calls resolved by the agent

71%

positive caller sentiment

2,600+

products in the RAG catalog

emeofficial.com

Emé — skincare e-commerce

Live

Paid client build

Multi-currency storefront with quiz-driven personalization and Klaviyo lifecycle automation.

Open live demo

Own system · self-hosted

B2B Prospecting Pipeline

LangGraph agent pipeline, self-hosted on a VPS with systemd timers and a worker service. No public demo — it runs outreach — so the architecture stands in.

KvK / SBI filter

Hunter.io enrich

Apify scrape

LangGraph orchestrator · worker service

Automated outreach

VPS · systemd timers · cron

server-1 · prospect-worker

$ systemctl is-active tars-prospector.timer
active
$ curl -s localhost:8088/health
{"ok":true,"jobs":["prospect_research"]}
$ journalctl -u tars-prospector -n 2
REFILL added=2 backlog_total=98
CYCLE done dispatched=0 backlog_total=96

One operating system

The creative work and the engineering work solve the same problem from opposite ends. One earns attention; the other captures, routes, and compounds it. I direct the story, build the system underneath it, and connect both to the operation that has to deliver.

The transformation continues

01Frame02Character03Campaign

SignalAgentDelivery

03 / Operate and scale

One roadmap, from attention to delivery.

The range is useful because the handoffs disappear. Creative, technical, and operational decisions can share the same context.

01
Creative
Make the idea felt
Turn positioning into characters, films, social systems, and campaigns people can recognize and remember.
Campaign strategyAI video & creative directionBrand positioningShort-form social
02
Technical
Build the machine
Design the agents, retrieval, voice, commerce, and automation layers that turn attention into a working customer journey.
LLM orchestrationRAG & voice agentsPython / TypeScriptSelf-hosted infrastructure
03
Operations
Make it deliver
Connect campaigns, CRM, commerce, sales, people, and reporting so the work survives contact with the real business.
CRM & pipelineE-commerce / ShopifySales & business developmentTeam leadership

Experience

Where the range came from.

Jan 2026 — Present

Founder — AI Systems, Marketing & Video Production — 180 Meridian

AI systems & creative studio · Rotterdam / Remote

Build AI systems for prospect research, outreach, content planning, and customer communication while leading AI-video, positioning, and campaign delivery across creative and technical contributors.

Apr 2024 — Present

Creative Director / Business Operations Lead — All Around Universal

Remote · Denver market

Lead marketing, e-commerce, and automation initiatives with a team of 5 across websites, social campaigns, ads, and workflows; approximately €37K revenue managed in 2025.

Feb 2025 — Dec 2025

Lead Videographer & Marketing Strategist — The Little Local Book

Remote · Denver market

Produced short-form video, photography, and social assets for local businesses across hundreds of campaigns; planned content calendars and translated brand goals into creative execution.

2018 — 2024

Guest-Facing Hospitality — Monarch Casino & Resort · The Broadmoor

Colorado

Five-star service standards, fine-dining and high-volume.

Creative & marketing

Campaign strategyAI video productionCreative directionShort-form socialBrand positioningfal.aiKlingVeoHeyGenElevenLabsNano Banana Pro

AI & LLM

LangGraphMulti-agent systemsMCP serversRAGpgvectorTool-callingStructured outputsPrompt engineeringEvalsClaudeGPTLlamaQwenDeepSeekOllama & vLLM self-hostingElevenLabsHeyGenTwiliofal.aiKlingNano Banana Pro

Engineering

PythonTypeScript / JavaScriptSQLFastAPINode.jsNext.jsREST / webhooksBullMQ / Redis queuesPostgreSQLSupabaseDockerCoolifySelf-hosted VPSLinuxtmuxcron / systemdCIGoHighLevelStripeShopifyHunter.ioApify

Operations

CRM & pipeline managementSales & business developmentE-commerce & ShopifyGoHighLevelTeam leadershipProduction planningCampaign delivery

Education

B.A., Tourism & Hospitality Management — Turiba University, Riga, Latvia · 2016–2021

Japanese Philology — Tashkent Oriental Lyceum · 2013–2016

Contact

Choose the door.

Email me directly about the role—or book a focused introduction call.

Based in Rotterdam · working across creative, systems, and operations