Saeid Samimi
Lead Creative AI Specialist & AI-Native Builder
A pioneering multi-disciplinary leader with over 14 years of professional experience bridging the gap between high-end visual storytelling (VFX, 3D motion design, cinematography) and autonomous software engineering. Built and deployed full-stack serverless backends and custom slide generators solo using Generative AI (vibe coding).
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Core Competency Matrix
AI-Native Development
- ✔ Solo Product Construction (Vibe Coding)
- ✔ Advanced Prompt Systems Design
- ✔ Cloudflare Workers & Pages hosting
- ✔ Swift / SwiftUI iOS Development
- ✔ RAG Pipeline Architecture
Visual Craft & Media
- ✔ 3D Motion Design (Blender)
- ✔ VFX Supervision & Compositing
- ✔ Cinematography & Directing
- ✔ Metaverse, AR & VR Spatial Design
- ✔ Unified Global Design Systems
Executive Leverage
- ✔ Solo Technical & Design Execution
- ✔ Net-New Sales Product Creation
- ✔ Corporate Brand Restructuring
- ✔ R&D Budget & Strategy Alignment
- ✔ Advanced Emerging Tech Research
AI Builder Playground (Vibe Coding Simulation)
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*All terminal code is modeled directly after Saeid's actual production cloud pipelines.
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Professional Chronology (Click to Expand)
Lead Creative AI Specialist (Head of Innovation)
TEAM LEWIS · London, UK
Autonomously building, coding, and deploying full-stack client-facing AI platforms, custom serverless infrastructure, and iOS products using Generative AI (vibe coding) and advanced R&D.
- >_ AI Presentation Engineering: Autonomously conceptualized, coded, and launched the flagship AI Presentation Generator for Marketing Sidekick (Sidekick v2), allowing clients to instantly generate highly complex, multi-layered slide presentations using LLMs and visual templates.
- >_ Serverless Backend Engineering: Engineered, deployed, and maintained the entire serverless backend and API infrastructure solo—utilizing Cloudflare Workers, serverless database queues, and OpenAI/Anthropic APIs via fast AI-driven iteration.
- >_ Coach TFT System: Designed, built, and launched Coach TFT (Training for Trust) as a solo developer, constructing its interactive media training logic, RAG-driven Playbook Memory system, and performance review architectures.
- >_ Mobile Application Engineering: Designed, coded, and published multiple custom iOS applications to the Apple App Store, utilizing Swift/SwiftUI and leveraging AI assistant workflows to deliver flawless mobile user experiences.
Senior Motion Graphics Designer & Animator
TEAM LEWIS · London, UK
Directed and executed high-fidelity brand visual development, 2D/3D motion assets, and interactive metaverse worlds for premium multinational clients under fast-paced agency deadlines.
- >_ Global Rebranding: Spearheaded the massive visual rebranding of TEAM LEWIS across all global video and motion graphics properties, designing standard production logos and templates.
- >_ Award-Winning Creative: Created visual components for major award-winning campaigns: primary visual elements for the "Find Your ERS" campaign (Winner of The Drum Award) and production branding for the Allen & Overy showcase video (Winner of the SABRE Award).
- >_ Immersive Tech: Designed, textured, and lit fully interactive 3D virtual environments in the Metaverse for major enterprise client showcases, including VMware.
- >_ Upskilling & Training: Established a hands-on mentorship pipeline to upskill junior creatives in advanced 3D production modeling and physical rendering (Blender).
Senior Video & Motion Graphics Designer
IG GROUP · London, UK
Directed and executed regional high-profile digital advertising media, promotional television commercials, and cinematic post-production workflows for a FTSE 250 trading conglomerate.
- >_ Global Campaign Direction: Supervised, directed, and color-graded high-budget VFX-heavy commercial campaigns, including: the visual brand launch of IG US, multi-regional television advertising in Europe, and 3D animated commercials for IG Japan's product showcase.
- >_ Department Building: Founded and scaled the in-house SEO video production department, optimizing asset deployment to boost social organic views from a 10k baseline to over 300k+ organic views per video (30x growth).
- >_ C-Suite Collaboration: Acted as creative design strategist alongside international executives to restructure the core corporate trading advertising guidelines.
Senior Promotions & Ident Designer / Manager
RT · London, UK
- >_ Designed, filmed, composited, and edited over a dozen premium UK television station idents and campaigns. Engineered the complete 3D virtual environment layout for a new multi-million dollar broadcasting studio in 2017.
News Video Editor & Motion Designer
RT · London, UK
- >_ Designed and engineered a high-speed video asset delivery pipeline, boosting editing turnaround efficiency between the design and broadcasting teams by 40%.
Multi-Camera Editor (Sam Delaney's News Thing)
STUDIO SIXTY BILLION LIMITED · London, UK
- >_ Engineered a unique multi-camera editing workflow that dramatically optimized post-processing speeds. Promoted to a supervisory quality-control role in December 2016.
Executive Recommendations (11 Total)
"Saeid is a talented Motion Graphics editor, full of ideas and the technical know-how to bring these to life, great at listening to feedback and incorporating it to make the final product even stronger. And all of that with a genuine, always-on smile."
Heidrun Luyt
Chief Growth Officer at Qonto | ex-IG Group Senior VP
Education
BSc (Hons) in Film Production Technology
UNIVERSITY OF STAFFORDSHIRE · 2010 – 2012
Rigorous visual production training focused on digital compositing pipeline engineering, 3D world lighting and rendering, and spatial video architectures.
Industry Recognition
Winner, Video Communications Category
Awarded for premier corporate branding narratives (Allen & Overy Campaign) · 2024
Winner, The Drum Creative Award
Awarded for high-impact social and motion design strategy ("Find Your ERS" Campaign) · 2023