Kyle Bartlett

About Me

Supply chain leadership since 2014. 350 automations shipped. One mission: automate everything.

The Story

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I started my career the old-fashioned way: a Purdue engineering degree, then supply chain operations at Sears, Belk, and Apple from 2014 on. At Sears, I led a team of 10 managing $120M in retail receipts with 99.95% accuracy. At Apple, I managed iPad supply chain across every retail store and carrier, achieving 100% fill rate on 3 major product launches. I presented 48-week rolling forecasts to C-Suite executives.

When I joined a global consumer electronics company as a Demand Planner, I saw the same inefficiencies I'd been fighting for years: manual processes, copy-paste workflows, hours spent on tasks that should take minutes. So I started building. What began as Google Apps Script macros turned into 350 automation and AI projects in under two years. I built enterprise ETL platforms, AI-powered forecasting models, RAG chatbots, and multi-agent orchestration systems. I ranked #1 out of 200 employees in its company-wide AI adoption.

Now I run Bartlett Labs, an AI automation consulting firm that builds production-grade applications for businesses. I bring something most AI engineers don't: an operations background that starts in 2014 and a working knowledge of what operations teams actually need, because I've been the one on the floor, managing the SKUs, presenting to the executives.

At a Glance

2014
In operations since
350
Automations built
Purdue BS
Engineering degree
1 of 200
Company AI adoption rank

Education

Purdue University

BS, Engineering & Industrial Management

2008 to 2013

Minors in Aeronautical Engineering, Science, Math, and Technology

DePaul University

Master of Business Administration

Chicago, IL

Graduate business degree, completed

Microsoft

Excel Masters Certification

Advanced data analysis and automation

Career Experience

From Fortune 500 supply chain to AI automation consulting

January 2025 to present

Founder & AI Engineer

Bartlett Labs·Houston, TX

AI automation studio. 24 published platforms on self-hosted infrastructure with full CI/CD, and a fleet of 15 agents on 52 scheduled jobs.

March 2026 to July 2026

US AI Lead

A global consumer electronics company·Remote

Company-wide AI enablement: 65 people used the automations, 45 ran them every day, and I ranked 1 of 200 employees in AI adoption.

August 2024 to March 2026

Demand Planner & AI Automation Manager

A global consumer electronics company·Remote

Demand forecasting for Amazon, Walmart, Costco, Target and Best Buy above 96.5% in-stock as the sole US-based operations team member, and 350 automation projects built along the way.

November 2019 to August 2024

Supply & Demand Planning Manager

Apple, Inc.·Austin, TX

iPad supply chain across all retail and carrier channels. 100% fill rate on 3 product launches. C-Suite forecast presentations.

April 2019 to November 2019

Outside Sales Representative

Spartan Energy·Houston, TX

Second employee at a launch-stage retail energy provider. Helped build the sales department from the ground up as the company scaled past 15 employees.

March 2018 to April 2019

Supply & Demand Planner

Belk, Inc.·Charlotte, NC

60% growth in men's footwear sales. More than 1,000 SKUs across 70 vendors.

January 2014 to March 2018

Team Lead / Inventory Planning Manager

Sears Corporation·Hoffman Estates, IL

$120M receipts, $52M sales. 99.95% inventory accuracy. Managed team of 10.

2010 to 2013

Business Development Manager

Shawn Foster Car Nation

Doubled used car sales. Sub-2-week average inventory turnaround through process optimization.

Technical Skills

The stack I ship with daily, across 47 projects and 350 automations.

Agentic Build Tools

Claude Code
Claude Desktop / Cowork
Cursor
Replit
Lovable
MCP

AI & LLMs

Claude / Anthropic API
OpenAI / GPT API
Gemini
RAG & Vector Databases
Multi-Agent Orchestration
Prompt Engineering
Guardrails & Output Evaluation

Web & Backend

Next.js
React
TypeScript
Node.js
Supabase
Postgres
SQL
REST APIs
Tailwind CSS
Vercel

Automation & Integration

Python
n8n
Make
Airtable
Telegram Bot API
Playwright
Google Apps Script
Google Workspace APIs

Infra & Delivery

GitHub
Self-Hosted Forgejo
Coolify
CI/CD
Self-Hosted Postgres

Business & Operations

Supply Chain / S&OP
Demand Forecasting
Data Analysis & Reporting
Executive Presentations
Project Management