Juan Ernesto Turcios
Los Angeles · Open to work

i build the systems a business actually runs on

Founder of Kova. USC film. I design the brand, sell the product, and write the software underneath it — and I'm looking for work where that last part is the job.

— warm machines, built to be trusted.

Loc
Los Angeles, CA
Lang
English · Español
Seek
AI ops · solutions
Status
Open to work

01 — Strengths

three things i'm good at

01

automating real operations

AI agents wired into six live business systems — Shopify, Xero, Square, Notion, Gmail, Cloudflare — with tested safety hooks that stop a bad deploy reaching a live storefront. Built for a business where a mistake costs money, not a demo.

02

selling face to face

Nearly 100 pop-ups. A stranger gives you ten seconds and a reason to say no. 1,030 units sold, a wholesale account opened from cold outreach, and a price ladder I still defend.

03

making it look like something

A USC film degree and five years of production, plus brand identity work for two ventures. I can shoot it, cut it, design it, and explain why it's laid out that way.

02 — Work

selected work

kova-ops

the automation layer

Two safety hooks that stop an AI agent publishing to a live storefront or running destructive git, with 73 passing tests. Traffic-aware delivery routing with a binary search for the latest safe departure. I found three production bugs in the hooks by probing them with crafted payloads that code review had passed.

73/73 TESTS PASSING
python · node · cloudflare workers · mcp

Kova

fresh protein ice cream

Founded August 2025. 30g protein and 200 calories in a single-serve cup. I make the product, design the brand, build the Shopify storefront in Liquid, run the deliveries, and keep the books. Nearly 100 pop-ups across LA gyms and studios.

brand · shopify / liquid · operations · content

masa

studio work

Web, content and automation builds for small businesses, plus a second brand serving architecture and design firms on a shared engine. Sites on Eleventy and Cloudflare Pages, self-hosted type, structured data, and a pricing model benchmarked against the market rather than my old rates.

eleventy · cloudflare pages · brand · pricing

03 — History

before this

2023 – 2025

York Healthcare and Wellness CenterActivities Assistant. Daily programming and one-to-one care in a skilled nursing facility. User research with about 100 residents that fed a real product design.

2022 – 2024

Freelance videographer and photographerLatino music events across LA venues. Deliverables to clients within 72 hours.

2022

Winterlight PicturesCreative Development Intern. Built an Airtable database tracking trending creators; wrote script coverage used in development decisions.

2021 – 2023

USC School of Cinematic ArtsAdministrative Assistant. Led admissions information sessions and campus tours for groups of 20+ families.

2021 – 2024

¿Y La Novia? by MykaelCreative Director. Eight tracks produced; pitched Chartmetric and SubmitHub curators to grow streaming traffic.

2020

"Inherited"Director. An 18-person crew and a $2,000 budget, at twenty.

2023

University of Southern CaliforniaB.A., Cinema and Media Studies. Film coursework at Syracuse University, 2018–2020.

04 — Next

what i'm looking for

AI operations, solutions, or internal tooling — work where the job is turning a messy process into a system that holds. Remote, or close to Los Angeles. Fluent in English and Spanish.