Résumé
Experience, education, and selected work by Sulayman Bowles across Chegg, Sapien, VOID, and independent products.
I work in product at Chegg, lead growth at Sapien and run VOID, a data brokerage. I also build independent software.
Education
The University of Texas at Austin · Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance · Expected May 2028
Experience
Chegg, Inc.
Product Intern, Growth — Internships.com · May 2026 — Present
Build recruiting-data pipelines, search workflows and SEO strategy for Internships.com.
- Built an internship scraper and recruiting-data pipelines, validating sources, normalizing listings and retaining provenance with product, engineering, data science and marketing teams.
- Work on SEO strategy and search discovery for Internships.com, connecting student questions with internship and application content.
- 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
Run VOID, a data brokerage focused on qualifying data opportunities and making introductions with permission.
- During VOID’s earlier consulting phase, developed operating plans and software tools for small businesses and technology clients.
- Collected $50K+ in revenue during VOID’s earlier consulting phase.
- Built Atlas during that consulting phase: a Python and SQLite console for reviewing website crawls and exporting findings with their source pages.
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
Certifications
- Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
- Google Project Management Professional Certificate
- Bloomberg Market Concepts
Languages
- Spanish (Intermediate)
Product, growth, AI and commercial research.
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