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CONNOR RANEY

New York, NY | connor@connorraney.com | github.com/cbrane | connorraney.com

AI-Native Builder & Founder. Building with AI in NYC.

Current Ventures (2025)

Aiscend

Co-Founder | AI Development & Consulting

Deployed bond lending platform in 4 weeks (crcle)
Building AI health app for SF startup - Next.js provider dashboard + React Native patient app
Building AI agents for clients using Agno agent framework

Cluma

Technical Lead | EdTech Platform

Full-stack development with Canvas LMS integration
AI-powered coursework management system
Product strategy with seasoned venture team

cbrane ventures

Founder | Solo AI Projects

NameNexus: AI naming platform with domain checking
Custom AI workflows and automation tools
Open source Project Context CLI tool

Key Achievements

$1M+ Revenue Generated

1 Sold

500 AI Lab Members

10+ Ventures Started

Recent Experience

The Generator @ Babson College

Founding Student Lead | Interdisciplinary AI Lab | 2024

Scaled AI innovation lab from 0 → 500 members
AI Buildathons: 200+ participants with Stanford partnership
AI Buildathons: Microsoft collaboration, $10K in prizes distributed
Taught workshops for AI coding tools & context engineering to 100+ students

Barbaricum

AI Engineer Intern | Government Contractor | 2024

First production AI deployment for government contractor
Built RS3 RFI/RFP proposal analysis system (10x evaluation capacity)
Developed CLI tool for S3 document management and processing
OpenAI Assistants, AWS Lambda, S3 architecture
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Venture Timeline

2016: Mobile Coin Dealer - First business, $8K revenue, automated transactions

2018: 914Soles - Sneaker reselling, $200K+ revenue, international buyers

2020: Volare Network - Sneaker automation software, sold pre-launch, led team of 6

2021: HEYO Agency - Influencer marketing, $300K client sales

2022: Break Labs - NFT consulting, $250K+ personal profit from NFT trading

2025: Current ventures in AI + moving to NYC

Technical Skills

Claude Code Cursor Vercel Supabase TypeScript Next.js React Native CrewAI Agno Context Engineering OpenAI Anthropic Python R Shiny PostgreSQL Streamlit Heroku AWS S3 AWS Lambda AWS Bedrock Lovable Bolt Replit Rork ElevenLabs

Notable Projects

Barbaricum RS3 RFI/RFP Proposal Analysis System: Production system for defense contractor with CLI tool (GitHub)
NYC Taxi ML: 50M row dataset, DCNv2 TensorFlow model on Google TPUs (GitHub)
GEM Data Hackathon: Analysis of American entrepreneur characteristics using GEM dataset (2015-2021). 3rd place winner ($1,000) in Butler Institute's 2025 Data Hackathon (GitHub)
NameNexus: AI-powered startup naming with domain availability (GitHub)
Bond Lending Platform: Full-stack app deployed in 4 weeks (crcle)

Education

Babson College

BS Business Administration, Quantitative Methods | 2022-2025 (3 years)

Founding Student Lead of The Generator AI Lab
Focus: ML, Statistics, Business Analytics
Calculus through Multivariable Calculus at Boston College