# Aaron Sulbaran

> I'm a product-focused engineer. I study Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at UT Austin, but beyond class I'm passionate about building products people actually want to use.

This is Aaron Sulbaran's personal site, written in his own voice, so "I" below is Aaron. Born in Venezuela and raised in Texas, I love spending time with family & friends while always happy to meet new people. Outside of class, I use credit card-maxxing to fulfill my wanderlust and 3D printing to satisfy my engineering itch. I'm also a huge thrill seeker and will say yes to just about any adventure.

What I'm looking for next: I'm most interested in building consumer products, whether that's as a PM at a company that ships at scale, as an engineer working on Applied AI at a startup or frontier lab, or by taking my own ideas like min/Max further on my own or with the right team. Wherever I land, I know I'll be bringing people with very different skillsets together to build something great.

## Pages

- [Home](https://aaronsulbaran.com/): The home page: who I am, my cards (the experience below), proof of work, and how to reach me.
- [MVP](https://aaronsulbaran.com/quick): The MVP (Minimum Viable Portfolio): one line per role, year by year, newest first.
- [Full text](https://aaronsulbaran.com/llms-full.txt): This site's full text in one file: every card's whole story, the people who shaped me, and the year-by-year timeline.

## Experience

Each entry is one card on the home page. The full text of each is in /llms-full.txt.

- **Mentorship**: Coach, tutor and speaker, ongoing. People made time for me, so I make time back.
- **min/Max**: Founder, 2025 to now. An agentic credit card co-pilot that gets users their best rewards
- **Jordan High School band**: Section leader to drum major, 2021 to 2023. This is where I fell in love with leadership
- **Talos**: Builder, 2026 to now. My executive assistant. Talos is my own custom harness that grows with me every day
- **Travel**: Yosemite, Mt. Fuji and more. This was the year I started realizing I loved to travel intentionally
- **Capital One**: Intern, 2024 to 2026
  - Capital One, Business Analyst Intern, 2024: Worked on revamping the customer contact strategy for the Internal Digital Recoveries team
  - Capital One, Product Manager Intern, 2025: Helped lead NPI for the Venture X NPSL card for the Premium Card (Upmarket) team
  - Capital One, Applied AI (PM) Intern, 2026: Built an agentic model testing framework for fraud models on the Third Party Fraud team
- **Hackathons**: Builder, 2025 to now. I love spending my free time building, so why not get rewarded and compete for it?
- **Anthropic**: Claude Campus Ambassador, 2026. Helped students adopt AI tools into their work in an ethical way
- **Misuki**: 2001 Mazda Miata, five-speed. I bought her in cash senior year and she's still my daily driver
- **IEEE UT Austin**: President, Corporate Director, and AO, 2023 to 2026. IEEE was my home at UT, and a lot of how I lead comes from it.
- **"unflattering" jobs that paid for school**: Popeyes to Aritzia, 2021 to 2026
  - Popeyes, Shift Lead, 2022: Cooked some chicken to pay my first bills
  - MOD Pizza, All-Star Squad Member, 2023: Learned how to cook a pizza in an open brick oven
  - Apple, From Specialist to Genius Bar, 2024: Helped sell phones then quickly moved to repairing some of my favorite products
  - UT Austin, Student Mentor, 2024: Got paid to mentor students I would have helped regardless of pay
  - Aritzia, Sales Associate, 2025: Got paid a lot to dress well and give fashion advice
- **This site**: Portfolio (design playground), 2026. I design it, write the specs, and manage the agents that help me build it.
- **The family business**: Assistant Manager & SWE, 2022 to now. I learned how to run a business beside my dad and still work with him when I can
- **Building in public**: LinkedIn and X, 2026 to now. How I share what I've learned so far with anyone who's willing to listen

## Contact

- [Book a time on my calendar](https://cal.com/aaron-sulbaran)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-sulbaran/): in/aaron-sulbaran
- [GitHub](https://github.com/aaron-sulbaran): aaron-sulbaran
- [Email](mailto:aarondsulbaran@gmail.com): aarondsulbaran@gmail.com
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/aaron.sulbaran/): aaron.sulbaran
- [X](https://x.com/imaaronsulbaran): @imaaronsulbaran