Built by editors who ran out of patience.

Seventeen years editing video, most recently running Story, the video and comms shop of choice for a lot of the best labs and deep tech companies working today. Started Wizard because he was tired of fighting his own tools. Seventeen years editing video, most recently running Story, the video and comms shop of choice for a lot of the best labs and deep tech companies working today. Started Wizard because he was tired of fighting his own tools.

Works across the stack wherever Wizard needs it most, from editor internals to the systems that keep the team shipping fast.

Carol began her career in visual effects, spending nearly six years at Industrial Light & Magic as a Color & Imaging Engineer on over 30 films including The Irishman, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and Avengers: Infinity War, before moving to Netflix as an Imaging Technologist and then to Apple to work on HDR content creation. She chairs the OpenColorIO Technical Steering Committee and the Academy Software Foundation's Technical Advisory Committee. At Wizard she leads color grading and imaging, building an OpenColorIO- and ACES-based pipeline with a node-based grading architecture designed so agentic tooling is native rather than bolted on.

Keeps Wizard's finances and operations running so the rest of the team can stay focused on the product.

Gianni came to multimedia through compression, working on the production AV1 encoder SVT-AV1, contributing improvements that reached production AVIF workflows, and building tools like Aviator to make modern codecs accessible to non-experts. He continues that work through Halide Compression, where he builds frontier image compression technology. At Wizard he makes the media pipeline fast and memory-efficient, supporting the latest formats up to 8.6K RAW — on the conviction that every 5% performance gain is 5% more reach.

Bryan spent 5.5 years at Astranis, where he grew the team past 500 people, then redesigned and scaled the People Operations & Systems function. He went on to build and lead the company's AI services function across G&A, deploying AI systems across core business operations.

Aryan came up as a musician before discovering audio programming during an internship at Blizzard, where he went on to build foundational audio systems for the studio's new game engine. He then co-founded Veena, an agentic DAW used by over 100,000 people, while earning a master's in Product Design at USC. At Wizard he built the audio engine from scratch in C++, designed from day one for fast AI inference — spanning custom EQ plugins, glitchless playback, and AI mixing and mastering.

Jack studied Computer Science and Engineering at UCLA and spent two and a half years at Verizon Business on the FAA's air-to-ground communications program, leading the teams that built the central visualization platform for the nation's air traffic communication flows. He joined Wizard as founding UI/UX lead and is now Head of Product, having assembled the NLE's entire visual language from the ground up in C++, Qt, and QML. His focus is a modular, infinitely customizable interface that feels familiar to industry veterans while making the product's capability something you can actually feel.

Harry earned his master's in Computing at the University of Utah, researching vision-language model interpretability and building 3D U-Net architectures for skull-base tumor segmentation, after training and deploying NLP models for Indic languages at scale at Bobble AI. At Wizard he built the AI infrastructure end to end: the ingestion system that turns raw footage into searchable, traceable evidence, and Oz, the agent architecture that connects models to Wizard's media, timeline, and rendering engines. He's most interested in building environments that let models do more than a prompt allows while keeping the editor's judgment at the center.

Sam is a computer graphics and rendering engineer who spent several years in the space industry building real-time 3D digital twin visualizations and AR/VR simulators used by NASA for crew training and mission operations, including the Artemis II moon mission. At Wizard he leads the custom GPU rendering and compositing engine, visual effects capabilities, and a semantic render graph framework designed from the start to be readable and authorable by agents. His aim is a pixel processing core that balances the flexibility of frontier generative AI with the precision of traditional rendering.

Stacy is a serial start up employee. Her background includes building and scaling the customer service teams at The Climate Corporation and Nima Labs, Product Marketing at Fitbit, Google & Mixbook, and now Chief of Staff at Wizard and Story.

Charles has spent 12 years building tools for fast-moving VFX and game pipelines, including the end-to-end motion capture pipeline at 2K Games supporting NBA 2K, Borderlands, and Civilization, and mocap tools in Unreal Engine at Epic Games, where he was also pipeline engineer for Epic's mocap stages. At Wizard he leads Spellbook, a node-based generative content workbench that brings disparate models into an artist's production context for iterating, remixing, and managing generated content. He also works on Wizard's agentic development and user testing systems.

Logan has spent fifteen years in software and game development, from 3D generalist on mobile games to leading creative and technical teams on everything from U.S. Naval training simulations to products reaching millions. At EA he led the Madden Mobile live team and the mobile Core Tech team; at Epic Games he led feature development on Unreal Engine and shipped some of the biggest live events in Fortnite's history. He joined Wizard recently to define workflow standards, development timelines, and milestones, and has established a cadenced release process for the team's partners at Story.