You have the ideas.I build the machine.

I'm Brian Bautista, a Creative Technologist and AI Engineer based in Mesa, Arizona. I build AI tools and automation on Google Cloud at Trusted Media Brands, where my official title is Creative Technologist and Data Scientist. Before that I spent thirteen years at GoDaddy, moving from server administration and website security into art direction and creative leadership. I have run the servers and I have run the creative team.

Yes. I take project work alongside a full-time role at Trusted Media Brands, which means I'm selective about volume rather than about size — a two-person med spa and a media company get the same person. Email [email protected] and say what needs doing, and we'll get on a call so I understand the problem before I quote it. There is no form to fill in first.

Both. Alongside the internal AI tools I build at Trusted Media Brands, I take on project work for small businesses: a brand and a website built together, automating the work that eats your week, an AI product built and shipped, the internal tool nobody sells off the shelf, and films and photos that sound like you. Éclat Aesthetica is the clearest example — a new med spa in Phoenix, from no brand at all to a full identity and a booking website in five weeks, and it is live at eclatazmedspa.com. I have been making brand films for local business owners since 2019. The fastest way to start is [email protected].

I price work per project, and quote it 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 way to start is to email [email protected] and say what you need done.

Three things, and you do not have to take my word for any of them. Starrd (getstarrd.app) is an AI video generator on iOS and web with over 3,000 registered users, live since February 2026. OneLapse (onelapse.app) turns one photo into a cinematic timelapse and has over 500 registered users, running since November 2025. I co-founded both of those with Ian Brillantes and we built them together. Éclat Aesthetica (eclatazmedspa.com) is a complete brand and a booking website I built alone, for a new Phoenix med spa, in five weeks. Go and press the buttons. The rest of my work is internal to Trusted Media Brands and I cannot link it, which is exactly why the things I can link matter.

ChatGPT gives you an answer once. I build the system that does it every day with nobody driving: error handling, retries when a step fails, a cost you can predict, and an owner when it breaks. Every AI system on this site is running in production with real users, not sitting on a laptop as a demo.

I write it. The magazine cover pipeline, StockPull and the analytics dashboard were designed, built, and deployed by me. OneLapse and Starrd are the two I did not do alone: I co-founded both with Ian Brillantes, a senior software engineer, and we built them together — I led product, design, and the front end. Both are live and you can go and use them right now: onelapse.app, with over 500 registered users, and getstarrd.app, with over 3,000. I also run the creative team behind every Trusted Media Brands title, so I know what a team will and won't actually adopt.

Forward Deployed Engineer, Creative Technologist, AI Engineer, and AI Creative Strategist. I'm currently Creative Technologist and Data Scientist at Trusted Media Brands, and I take on project work alongside it. My résumé is at brianbautista.com/resume, and the fastest way to reach me is [email protected].

All three are names for one job, and it is the job I do: working out where AI actually belongs in a company's day-to-day work and then building it, instead of demoing what AI could do in theory. My official title at Trusted Media Brands is Creative Technologist and Data Scientist. This site leads with AI Engineer because that is what the work on it honestly is: production systems, Google Cloud automation, and internal tools people use every day, like the automation that carries five magazine brands from a dropped file to a published cover. I was a Senior Art Director before this, which is why the tools land with the people who have to use them.

It is the half of the job that happens before anything gets built: framing the decision, finding where the data really lives, and settling what "better" means as a number. In practice that has meant a CLIP visual-scoring layer that ranks StockPull's image search on what a photo looks like rather than how it was tagged, and retiring an enterprise reporting subscription in favour of BigQuery and dbt so the team owns its own numbers. A model earns its place or it does not ship.

Google Cloud is the center of it: Eventarc, Cloud Run, and Cloud Storage for the automation, BigQuery and dbt for the data, and Python for the analysis. On top of that, Next.js, TypeScript, React, Supabase, and Stripe for the products, and Claude, GPT, CLIP, and a rotating set of image and video models for the AI. I work in the Adobe stack too, from the art-direction half of my career.

Not prompt engineering, and not AI consulting that produces a slide deck and an invoice. The work on this site is systems other people depend on: error handling, retries when a step fails, a cost you can predict, and an owner when it breaks. I also do not sell packages or tiers, and there is no rate card — an automation and a brand film are not the same job, so the price is quoted after a conversation about what the work actually is. If what you need is a deck about what AI could do in theory, I am the wrong person and I will say so.

A forward deployed engineer is an engineer who works where the problem actually is — sitting with the team that has the problem, learning their day, and then building and shipping the system that fixes it, rather than taking a spec over a wall and returning software. The title matters less than the shape of the job: you own the thing end to end, including whether anyone uses it. That is the work on this site. The magazine pipeline started as a person exporting a cover by hand; the ad tool started as two teams reviewing ads in four windows at once, and it now runs their campaigns every day. Neither began as a ticket.

Mesa, Arizona, in the Phoenix metro — so Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe and Mesa are all a drive away, and a shoot or a kickoff can happen in person. Everything else is remote, and has been for years: the current role at Trusted Media Brands and the two before it are all remote, and the creative team reports in from across the US and India. Distance has never been the constraint. Éclat was a Phoenix client and the med spa's rooms needed photographing, so I photographed them; a pipeline or an internal tool has never needed me in the room at all.