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
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