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Sulayman Bowles

Résumé

Experience, education, and selected work by Sulayman Bowles across Chegg, Sapien, VOID, and independent products.

I work in product, growth, and commercial research at Chegg, Sapien, and VOID, and build independent products.

Education

The University of Texas at Austin · Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance · May 2028

Experience

Chegg, Inc.

Product Intern, Growth — Internships.com · May 2026 — Present

Develop internship-search workflows and AI tools through student research.

  • Build and validate recruiting-data pipelines with product, engineering, data science, and marketing teams.
  • Analyze public social posts with embeddings and machine learning to inform student-focused growth experiments.
  • Built an AI mock interviewer with adaptive follow-ups, conversation memory, failure recovery, and feedback.

Sapien

Growth Manager · Aug 2026 — Present

Lead growth and positioning for a market research platform using simulated audiences.

  • Develop buyer use cases for pricing, concept testing, messaging, and consumer research.
  • Built the SEO and content function: editorial, category pages, ad creative, and sales material.
  • Review research and validation studies to explain use cases, findings, and limits.

VOID Agency

Founder · Jan 2026 — Present

Founded a consultancy for growth strategy, financial analysis, AI workflows, and web systems.

  • Develop operating plans and software tools for small businesses and technology clients.
  • Collected $50K+ in revenue.
  • Built Atlas, a Python and SQLite console connecting website crawls, findings, and evidence.

InternshipDeadlines

Founder & Product Lead · Sep 2026 — Present

Built and launched a student product for internship search and application planning.

  • Designed a pipeline for source validation, listing normalization, deduplication, and provenance.
  • Combine local language models for role classification and query understanding with search ranking.
  • Connect internship search with employer research, preparation, and cost and offer comparisons.

CreativeTrace

Creator, AI Creative Experimentation · Jul 2026 — Present

Develop creative concepts from patterns in public posts and video.

  • Analyze public posts and video for recurring creative and engagement patterns.
  • Develop hypotheses and draft concepts linked to their sources.

Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs

Student Associate · Sep 2025 — Present

Research markets, pricing, and unit economics for early-stage companies.

  • Build market, pricing, and financial models to recommend positioning and routes to market.

AI Image Generation Startup

Co-Founder, Product & Go-to-Market · Jan 2025 — Sep 2025

Co-founded an AI image-generation venture on Bittensor, spanning product, pricing, architecture, and launch.

  • Grew the venture to $100K in revenue.
  • Owned product requirements, pricing, technical architecture, and go-to-market materials.

Awards and leadership

Coinbase Institutional Client Strategy Challenge

Selected among 20 winning submissions · Jun 2026

Institutional client strategy submission.

Jane Street Monthly Puzzle

Correct Solver · Jul 2026

Listed among the correct solvers of “Pent Up Frustration 3: Knight Moves 7.”

OnionDAO Hackathon

1st Place, Team Lead · Jun 2025

Led a three-person team building PayrollPro, a Solana prototype for confidential payroll, shared treasury control, and treasury risk.

No Limit Holdings x Artemis Researchathon

Researchathon Winner · Mar 2026

Developed a digital-asset thesis with public data, valuation, market structure, risk analysis, and an execution plan.

Student Government

University-Wide Representative · Sep 2024 — Present

Represent student perspectives through surveys, town halls, and outreach across colleges.

Texas Blockchain

Investment Team Analyst · Sep 2025 — Present

Research digital assets and infrastructure protocols for student investment discussions.

UTEXAS Energy Trading

Cohort Member · Listed Sep 2026

Participate in the energy-trading cohort.

Skills & tools

Building
Python · SQL · TypeScript · JavaScript · SQLite · Web systems
Data & analytics
Data validation · Embeddings · Classification & retrieval · GA4 · Google Search Console · Excel · Tableau
Product & commercial work
Product positioning · Growth strategy · Financial analysis · Pricing · Consumer insights · Market research
Research & creative work
Research synthesis · AI workflows · Technical SEO · Writing · Figma · Creative experimentation

July 2026 PDF · September 2026 web résumé.

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