Brian Marin Silva — Houston, TX

Investor & builderat the intersectionof finance and AI.

Director at a private investment fund. MBA, Rice University. Former full-stack engineer — I still ship. I spend my time on where AI is reshaping how companies get built, valued, and run.

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01 — About

From storyboards to term sheets.

I started in design and advertising — learning how attention works and how a story earns it. That instinct never left; it just found new mediums.

Then I became a full-stack engineer, building products end to end: real-time systems, payment flows, AI-powered tools, and a developer sandbox that lives on npm. Shipping software taught me how value actually gets created — one deploy at a time.

An MBA at Rice University added the third lens: capital. Today I'm a Director at a private investment fund, focused on the companies and operators using AI to change how businesses are built and valued. Design taught me taste, engineering taught me truth, and finance taught me stakes.

Design rootsEngineering rigorInvestor lensAI focus

Brian Marin Silva

Director · Investor · Engineer

02 — Journey

The road so far.

Advertising → engineering → capital. Every chapter compounds.

2018

University of Houston

BA in Advertising & Business Foundations — the design and storytelling roots.

2021

Bentley Systems

Technical Account Manager translating client requirements into technical solutions — and the start of the software journey.

2022

Aria Health

Full Stack Software Engineer. Built the product front to back with TypeScript, React, and Next.js — real-time chat, auth, Stripe payments — through a successful seed round.

2023

Shipping season

Shipped a portfolio of full-stack work: AI resume tooling, an npm-published JavaScript sandbox, native mobile, and API-driven web apps.

2024

Rice University

Began the MBA at Rice — layering capital allocation, strategy, and leadership on top of the engineering foundation.

2026

Director, private investment fund

MBA in hand. Now a Director at a private investment fund, focused on where AI is reshaping how businesses are built and valued.

03 — Selected Work

Things I've shipped.

Full-stack products, developer tooling, and AI experiments — built end to end and shared with the world.

Resume Builder

An AI-powered resume studio. React on the client, Node on the server, and the OpenAI API underneath — generating tailored professional summaries, key strengths, and role descriptions from custom prompts.

ReactNode.jsOpenAI APIExpress

FoodApp

A native restaurant-discovery app built with React Native and Expo. Live search against the Yelp API with rich detail views, tuned for a fast, fluid mobile experience on both platforms.

React NativeExpoYelp APIAxios

BabelBam CLI

An all-in-one JavaScript sandbox and notebook — create, edit, and share code snippets in real time. TypeScript, React, Redux, and Esbuild in a Lerna monorepo, published to npm. Try it: npm i babelbam.

TypeScriptReactReduxEsbuild

Spotify Recap

A full-stack web app connected to the Spotify API — OAuth authorization flow, user-specific listening data, and a polished React front end backed by Node and Express.

ReactNode.jsExpressOAuth

04 — Toolkit

Fluent across the stack — and the cap table.

AI & LLMs

OpenAI API
LLM Integration
Prompt Engineering
AI Product Strategy

Frontend

React
Next.js
TypeScript
Tailwind CSS
React Native

Backend

Node.js
Express
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
REST APIs

Finance & Strategy

Private Markets
Deal Analysis
Financial Modeling
Leadership

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Years across design, code & capital

Hours of coding

GitHub contributions

Certifications