artificial.nycstudio · nyc · est. 2014

Amik is a product leader who designs, engineers, and ships. He works across the whole stack of a product, from research and interaction design to production code, and builds AI-native: agents in the product and in his own workflow, so ideas reach users fast.

Right now that goes into two builds. At AJURA Capital, a high-frequency trading fund he co-founded, he treats the fund itself as the product: structure, investor products, and the regulatory path. GUNZscope he designed and engineered solo: a live onchain indexer, enrichment pipeline, and public API for Off The Grid on Avalanche, and an AVAX Build Games finalist.

Before that, he led product across the crypto stack: an L1 taken from testnet to mainnet and TGE as Head of Product at Autonomys, where he set the AI ecosystem strategy; an MPC wallet at Kresus, where he ran product and design; and an institutional quant trading platform at Ridian.

His roots are in design and research. At Amazon he led UX engineering, co-founded the Amazon Blockchain Group, and built the Wizard of Oz research practice behind Alexa’s early conversational UX. At One Medical (acq. Amazon, 2022), his clinical IoT R&D helped drive a $65M raise led by J.P. Morgan. He has founded ventures (Moment Research, Cut Japan), worked on defense with Senator Robert Kerrey and on UNIQLO’s global digital flagship at Razorfish, and was a principal at Medistem (acq. Precigen, 2014).

He holds a master’s in Human‑Computer Interaction from NYU, where he wrote his thesis on decentralized healthcare interoperability years before that was a category, and advises in the SVA Products of Design MFA program.

Avid boxing fan and skateboarder. Not at the same time.