Ayden Blacker
Founder · AI Product Builder · Technology & Automation Specialist
- Location: San Diego, CA / Tucson, AZ
- Email: ayden@vayrk.com
- Portfolio: ayden-portfolio.pages.dev
- GitHub: github.com/Stingz11
Summary
Founder and AI product builder with a background in direct sales and team leadership. Co-founder of Vayrk, a revenue operating system for service businesses, where I own product architecture, the sales and rep systems, and AI operations. I work across product, engineering and sales, and I keep people in charge of anything AI does on a customer’s behalf.
Experience
Co-founder Vayrk
Aug 2026 – PresentRevenue operating system for service businesses
- Co-founded Vayrk with Jason Zipp; own product architecture, customer workflows, and the sales, offer and rep systems.
- Built the rep workspace (Home, My Leads, Pipeline, Earnings, Career progress) with Twilio calling, call outcomes, dated follow-ups, qualification and demo scheduling on one lead page.
- Built the Vayrk Sales Academy: a seven-day course of 29 lessons and a 20-question certification with automatic-fail compliance questions.
- Designed and built version 1 of the Live Sales Copilot in one week: one-way call-audio fork, OpenAI realtime transcription, a rule-based sales brain and five safety gates; 113 ms median from end of turn to on-screen guidance in Preview calls.
- Built Vayrk Ops, AI agents that draft work for a person to approve, with signed per-task data grants and spend limits; zero drafts sent without approval in acceptance runs.
- Built Website Factory with an AI editor that proposes changes but never saves or publishes on its own, plus lead sourcing and opportunity scoring with a reason for every point.
- Built Vayrk Sales OS, an Electron desktop app for reps, from prototype to packaged Mac build in one day.
- Authored 508 of the 667 pull requests merged into the Vayrk app between August and October 2026.
Sales Representative / Team Lead Aptive Environmental
Jan 2026 – Sep 2026Residential pest control
- Generated over $100,000 in personal sales revenue through direct customer acquisition and face-to-face selling.
- Served as a team lead, supporting sales representatives with accountability, daily sales activity and performance improvement.
- Built practical skill in prospecting, objection handling, relationship building, negotiation and closing in a competitive sales environment.
Skills
Business & Leadership: Entrepreneurship · Business Development · Sales Strategy · Team Leadership · Customer Acquisition · Negotiation · Product Strategy
Technology & AI: AI Automation · AI-Assisted Software Development · CRM Systems · Workflow Automation · SaaS Product Development · TypeScript · Next.js · React · PostgreSQL · Supabase · Vercel · GitHub · Claude Code · OpenAI · Twilio · Stripe · Electron
Sales & Operations: Direct Sales · Lead Generation · Prospecting · Pipeline Management · Sales Training · Objection Handling · Revenue Operations
Education
University of Arizona
Expected 2028Bachelor’s degree in Urban and Regional Development (in progress, junior standing)