Fractional culture hire

New York City

2025-present

Something new - building in consumer backed by a16z

2022-2025

YourMove.ai. Bootstrapped an ai assistant for dating to over 1m users and a profitable lifestyle business, featured on NPR, WSJ, WaPo, Fox, Wired, CNBC, and others.

2019-2024

Opendoor - Started as an analyst. Became a data scientist. Then built and managed consumer DS.

2017-2019

Deloitte - Made slides.

2013-2017

UT Austin - Mechanical Engineering

Writing

Dating apps suck; AI can helpNewsweek Op-Ed that wound up on the front page

Have you considered being more lucky?

You're free, now what?observations from a month into running my lifestyle startup full-time

Thought I was retiredpunchline to the article above

YourMove investor memobootstrapping to 15k/mo over a thousand experiments

Argentine steak, a love story

Analytics is a Solved Problemworking backwards from the outcome approach to analytics

Interview math: maximizing signal and asymmetric risklessons learned from 150 interviews

Frameworks for a quarterlife crisiscareer planning for avoiding getting trapped in a local minimum

How to ship an ML model in 30 minutes

Top ETH Traderscrypto data journalism bit. Written for MilkRoad, comissioned by Luabase

Media

NPRdid a segment about my app

Washington PostWelcome to the age of automated dating

Wall Street Journalcan you flirt better than AI?

Superwall Podcastinterview about building YourMove

Scripps Newsdocumentary on AI in dating, featuring me and my product

Fox Businessalso did a bit on us

Ken's Nearest Neighbors Podcastusing GPT3 to automate dating and work

Futirisity Podcastusing GPT3 to automate dating and work

Speaking

Using Using Generative AI to Accelerate Your Team and Enhance Your Productconference talk at TWDI

How to ship a data app in 1 hourguest lecture at Columbia University

Rise of the Analytics EngineerBeyond 2021 Conference

Stuff I built

yourmove aiai texting assistant

northpole.directai letters from Santa

datingprofilecreator.comai writer for dating app profiles

juryfind.comniche legal research SAS site

decision-botGPT3/Slack integration in a (poor) attempt at making myself redundant as a manager

Get In Touch

The best way to reach me is via email at damirakyan@gmail.com or LinkedIn.