Martin Brian — Senior AI Engineer.
I ship agentic AI that engineering teams actually adopt. Not demos. Not pilots that quietly die. Things that stay shipped.
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The story so far
Marvik → dLocal
Making AI do the boring parts
Embedded in dLocal's AI team, where I ship agentic systems on a Claude Agent SDK / Claude Code base. The one that rolled out across the engineering org drives 40%+ end-to-end automation of dev tasks on a high-availability fintech platform. People stopped asking "does this help?" and started asking "how did we work without it?"
Ulta Beauty · Innovation
AR, AI, and a Fortune 500
Contributed to GLAMlab — Ulta's AR/AI virtual try-on and its first public generative AI app. Built a video analysis engine that watches affiliate and influencer content for brand-guideline violations at scale. Plus supporting iOS, web, and backend work across innovation projects.
BroLi · Co-founder
Running a bookshop with code
Co-founded and led engineering at an independent bookshop that applied blockchain and AI to a category that usually ignores both. Owned the stack end to end, led a small team, learned that startups are 20% code and 80% everything else.
Universidad de Montevideo · Octobot
Teaching, shipping, learning
Taught innovation and life-design workshops at UM's corporate innovation lab. Before that, shipped Django/React web and Swift/SwiftUI iOS at Octobot. The teaching part stuck — I still think of great engineering as mostly good explanation.
Things I've built
The projects that taught me the most — or that I just can't stop talking about.
Seniorify.dev
🏆 1st place at the Montevideo edition of Vercel's "Zero to Agent" Hackathon. A senior-in-the-loop for AI coding agents — intercepts PRs before they're written and interrogates juniors on their architecture choices, so they understand the why and not just the what.
Phex
🏆 1st place at the 2025 AI Hackathon (Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Lab × INGENIO, BASF challenge). An agentic AI safety copilot for chemical plants — modular, real-time, and watches operations on video to flag risk before productivity, safety, or sustainability take the hit.
dCoder
The agent system that changed how dLocal's engineering org works — model-agnostic agents handling code reviews, test generation, and routine dev in production on fintech rails. Drives 40%+ end-to-end automation of dev tasks.
GLAMlab
Ulta Beauty's AR/AI virtual try-on — millions of users on iOS and Android, and the company's first publicly-recognized generative AI application.
Brand Compliance Engine
Watches thousands of influencer videos and flags the ones that break the rules — competitor mentions, quality issues, policy violations. Built to replace a team squinting at screens.
Talks & demos
I explain agentic AI on stage — usually live, usually with something deploying in real time while I talk.
The Loop · daily
Daily AI for working engineers
A contrarian read on AI/LLM developer news, generated by an open-source pipeline and reviewed by seven persona agents before it ships.
Issue 1 ships next
The pipeline runs nightly. First real issue is around the corner. How it's made →
Let’s connect
Open to conversations about AI engineering, agentic systems, and interesting problems worth solving.
hello@martinbrian.com