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Bryan Holland

Executive AI Product & Controls Engineering Leader specializing in agentic video editing and EV systems

MAGICSEVEN AIUniversity of MichiganSF Bay Area, CA11 Years ExperienceExecutive LevelWorks On-Site

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Startup builder (MagicSeven) who designed and implemented a browser-based, agentic video editor end-to-end, including an AWS event-driven multimodal LLM “indexing” pipeline and an orchestration LLM agent for searching and manipulating footage. Demonstrates deep video file/codec knowledge plus practical production hardening of LLM workflows (format validation, plan/execute, S3-based state for debuggability).

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Key Strengths

  • Built and deployed an end-to-end AI agentic video editing system (browser upload → S3/Lambda → multimodal LLM indexing → orchestration LLM on EC2)
  • Strong event-driven, decoupled backend design for large media workloads (hours of footage) using AWS primitives
  • Deep technical troubleshooting in video processing (proxy generation, codecs, container muxing, fMP4)
  • Pragmatic production reliability fixes for LLM output instability (timestamp correction/validation to prevent downstream breakage)
  • Iterative product delivery under ambiguity (shipped in phases from simple chat prototype to full frame-accurate multi-track editor)
  • Agent design to prevent drift on long tasks (plan stored in S3; execute step runs tool calls per plan item)

Reference Highlights

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  • Built and owned the core 'intelligence layer' of the product
  • End-to-end ownership (100% implementation) from build through AWS deployment
  • Excellent backend depth (API design, data modeling, scalability)
  • Strong architectural decision-making in ambiguous problem spaces
  • Highly self-directed; needs little direction
  • Proactive but seeks second opinions on complex decisions when appropriate
  • Extremely reliable and transparent about work and thinking
  • Fast, effective incident response (quick diagnosis and fix)
  • Strong technical judgment; thoughtful about trade-offs
  • Elegant solutions under constraints (lightweight, flexible throttling design)
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Easy and efficient collaborator across teams (especially with frontend)
  • Calm under pressure; keeps a cool head
  • Efficient in fast-moving/resource-constrained environments
  • Solid teammate

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Experience

Co-founder, CEOMAGICSEVEN AI · Sep 2022 – Present
Data EngineerGILLIG · Mar 2022 – Sep 2022
Electrical Engineer, Design Engineering - ControlsGILLIG · Feb 2019 – Mar 2022
Vehicle Controls EngineerOPTIMAL · May 2017 – Sep 2018
Applications EngineerNEW EAGLE CONSULTING · Apr 2016 – May 2017
Software Engineer I & IINEW EAGLE CONSULTING · Feb 2015 – Apr 2016
Founder/Electrical Lead/RiderSPARK: Electric Racing at the University of Michigan

Education

University of Michiganbachelor, Electrical Engineering (2014)

Languages

English

Certifications

Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree (Udacity)

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