Resume

AI Engineer · Founder · Automotive AI Platform Builder

Automotive industry veteran turned hands-on AI engineer and founder. Two decades from the shop floor to the sales floor to the codebase, credited with helping generate a reported $2.4B in dealer profit. Self-taught across full-stack and AI infrastructure, now architecting and shipping production AI for dealers, OEMs, agencies, and small businesses: a live automotive market-intelligence platform, a GCP-native meeting-intelligence agent platform, multi-tenant SaaS, and the data-origination and agent systems beneath them.

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Current Focus

On path to empirical ML-systems research. Shipping a faithfulness eval for the Meeting Intelligence platform (synthetic corpus, precision and recall vs ground truth) and an ARIMA_Plus forecasting model into Vandoko.ai (target June 2026). Multimodal embeddings and a domain-driven NLP layer for automotive, consumer-safety and PII first.

Core Competencies

AI and Agent Engineering

Google ADK 2.0 agents, multi-agent and multi-model orchestration (Claude, Codex, Gemini), Claude Agent SDK, Vercel AI SDK, MCP server and tool development, RAG over BigQuery VECTOR_SEARCH, prompt and context engineering, multimodal generative AI (Gemini, Imagen, Veo).

Full-Stack and Product

Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript strict, Tailwind v4, shadcn/ui; NestJS, FastAPI, Prisma and PostgreSQL, BullMQ and Redis; pnpm and Turborepo monorepos; Clerk multi-tenant orgs, Firebase, Supabase, Vercel, Railway, Cloud Run; GitHub Actions CI/CD.

Data and Market Intelligence

Web-scale data origination and enrichment (Bright Data), automotive inventory, pricing, and incentive extraction; Google Cloud, BigQuery and BigQuery ML, native VECTOR_SEARCH and Gemini embeddings, Vertex AI; analytics and attribution across GA4, Google Ads, Search Console, GTM, Amplitude.

Growth and GTM

Demand and lead generation, account-based marketing (ABM), marketing automation, BDC operations, SEO and SEM, go-to-market strategy, revenue attribution.

Experience
2025 – Present
Founder and Principal AI EngineerVandoko · New York
  • Building Vandoko's multi-product AI platform for the automotive industry and small business, owning the full lifecycle from data origination to multi-tenant architecture to frontend.
  • Architect and ship across production and beta: a real-time market-intelligence platform, a multi-tenant SaaS, design-system tooling, and a multi-model agent layer orchestrating Claude, Codex, and Gemini.
2024 – May 2026
VP of MarketingStrolid, Inc. · Remote
  • Hired full-time after an initial 2024 consulting engagement to lead marketing for AI-powered BDC services for OEM-franchised dealerships; own demand generation, go-to-market, and brand.
  • Refocused lead generation on high-quality mid-to-large automotive groups, lifting monthly opportunities from an average of 12 to 50+ rooftops, a 40% MRR increase and a record-breaking Q2 2025.
2024 – 2025
National Sales DirectorDealerverse · AI-Powered Automotive SaaS
  • Led national sales strategy for an AI-powered automotive SaaS platform during its go-to-market phase.
2012 – 2023
Co-Founder and VisionaryOOMDO, Digital Marketing Defined · Full-Service Digital Marketing and Technology Agency
  • Co-founded a full-service digital marketing and technology agency; the automotive division drove ~95% of revenue. Generated $60M+ in sales over a decade and employed 20+ specialists.
  • Built the team, processes, proprietary lead-capture and conversion technology, and operating systems still in use today.
  • Took an upstate-NY Honda dealer from #182 to Top 25 nationally and from 150 to 500+ units per month, with three consecutive record months exceeding $1.2M in variable operations.
2011 – 2012
Director of Search MarketingLia Auto Group · Top-50 U.S. Auto Group
  • Brought SEO and SEM in-house across an 18-rooftop, top-50 U.S. auto group, driving a 34% traffic increase (84% organic) in one year.
  • Panelist, Digital Dealer 11, "The Best of the Best: Demystifying SEO."
2009 – 2011
Salesperson, then Marketing DirectorLazare Auto Group
  • Sold cars from October 2009 and ranked among the top 50 US automotive salespeople (OEM-ranked).
  • Promoted to Marketing Director; built a lean team that 4X'd lead volume and established lead-source attribution independent of vendor silos via early GA configuration and cookies.
2005 – 2009
Earlier: Startup and Shop-Floor RootsDOM360, Dealer Online Marketing · Independent Shop
  • First hire and Senior Account Manager at DOM360, an automotive digital-marketing startup: project management, product, vendor management, paid and organic search, and analytics.
  • Began in automotive in 2005 as a hands-on technician at a friend's independent shop, working motorcycles and cars: detailing, the tire machine, and lube-oil-filter, brakes, and rotations. The first real look at how the business worked, before moving into digital.
Selected Builds and Systems

Vandoko.ai + Scrapey-Do

Automotive Market Intelligence Platform. Data-origination engine (NestJS, Prisma/PostgreSQL, BullMQ/Redis, Bright Data) serving competitive inventory, pricing, and incentives behind a Next.js, Clerk, and Vercel AI SDK product. Live beta.

vandoko.ai

Meeting Intelligence Platform

Open-source initiative. Google ADK 2.0 agent plus BigQuery VECTOR_SEARCH RAG over a normalized decision graph; FastAPI and Cloud Run, Next.js 16; five accountability artifact types; eval gates in CI, faithfulness eval in progress; synthetic-corpus public release in preparation.

github.com/mautomo

Vandoko Portal

Multi-tenant AI-delivery SaaS (Next.js 16, Clerk Organizations, Vercel AI SDK streaming, Liveblocks). In development.

Brand Engine + Vandoko Registry

Next.js 16, React 19, and Tailwind v4 template library and a production shadcn/ui component registry.

registry.vandoko.com

Tool Bag

Internal multi-model AI dev-tooling layer: 14 plugins, 108 skills, Docker MCP Gateway, and 12 CI workflows orchestrating Claude, Codex, and Gemini.

CMO Marketing Automation Agent

Open source. Multi-agent system on the Claude Agent SDK with RAG (NotebookLM) and Gemini generation.

github.com/mautomo
Certifications, earned
  • +Adobe Content Creator Specialization (Coursera, 2025): Generative AI, Multimedia, Social Media Content and Strategy, Design Fundamentals.
  • +Google (Coursera, 2024): Digital Marketing and E-commerce Professional Certificate, AI Essentials, Data Analytics Foundations.
  • +Google Developer Program, Active Member (ADK and GEAR paths; expanding BigQuery and ML).
Certifications, in progress
  • ○GCP Generative AI Leader
  • ○Professional Machine Learning Engineer
  • ○Professional Data Engineer

Targeted, not yet earned. Listed separately on purpose.

Proof
github.com/mautomolinkedin.com/in/just-michael-dvandoko.ai