Engineering + AI + Product
Adam
Ramirez
Engineering leader by day. Builder of weird, specific things by night. The two feed each other — what I learn shipping solo becomes how I teach 100+ engineers to work with AI. Still writes code.
Experience
Career
Senior Director of Engineering
Universal Music Group
|Feb 2024 – Present
- 3 geographies, 28 global labels across US, UK, LATAM, and EMEA
- Trained 100+ engineers on AI-first development — workflows, specs, and judgment, not just tools
- Redesigned how the team works with AI — smaller squads shipping faster than the original team twice their size
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CTO & Cofounder
Stealth Startup
|2025 – Present
- Built solo — 5 LangGraph pipelines, 37-model cost-aware routing, 6K+ tests
- Production AI guardrails: 5-layer eval system, cost enforcement, circuit breakers on every LLM call
- Enterprise pilot on 1,200+ accounts. Practices built here now drive how 100+ engineers work at UMG
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CTO
Blindside HB GmbH
|Mar 2021 – Nov 2023
- First CTO hire. Built the engineering org, shipped the Flutter app, scaled to 50K+ users
- Migrated monolith → microservices with zero downtime. Deploys went from 2–3 hrs to 15 min
- 99.99% uptime through a full architecture overhaul — didn’t break anything while rebuilding the plane
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After hours
The fishing app exists because I live on a lake in Texas and got tired of guessing. The baseball tool is for a friend who scouts minor leaguers. Shortlist started because I watched people in my network struggle to find the right roles. The food company happened because I was in Berlin for a decade and missed good BBQ — so I built a business around it.
I build things because the question won't leave me alone.
Side projects
Projects
Creatomap
See who works with who in the creator economy
- 110K creators mapped across every YouTube vertical
- Sponsors and collaborations extracted automatically
- Built for brand managers and talent agencies
Resonance
Find the next big artist before everyone else
- 4,184 artists scored and searchable
- Engagement signals across 8+ platforms
- Used as a demo within UMG teams
FishML
Know where the fish are before you get to the lake
- Shipped iOS app with real users
- 300+ lakes with AI-generated fishing spots
- Trip planner with day-of species rankings
AWW
Give your AI agents a memory that actually knows you
- 9 data sources synthesized into a personal knowledge node
- Runs locally — your data never leaves your machine
- Signed, tamper-evident documents agents can trust
BBP
Predict which minor leaguers will make it to the majors
- Validated by a working professional scout
- 23M pitches and 145K at-bats analyzed
- 22 structured experiments to prove accuracy
Shortlist
Your overnight job search team that never sleeps
- Wakes up, searches, scores, and briefs you daily
- Auto-generates tailored cover letters
- Detects when jobs expire so you don't waste time