Edward Chalupa - Dallas, TX

What every scaling business is actually looking for:

Growth marketing leader. Automation architect. 10+ years turning data into pipeline, code into campaigns, and creative into conversions. Most recently directed marketing at iPEC Coaching, maintaining 5.95x ROAS through a 58% budget reduction. Now building AI-powered growth systems at Whtnxt.

Marketing Strategist Automation Engineer Creative Producer

Impact by the Numbers

5.95x
ROAS Maintained Through 58% Budget Cut
$2.5M
Marketing-Attributed Revenue Delivered
357%
Campaign Output Scaled via Systematic Testing
75%
Re-enrollment Rate via Automated Nurture
74%
Cost-Per-Click Reduction Year over Year
20+
Industry Awards for Video, Content, and Marketing

Experience

Whtnxt - Founder & Chief Automation Strategist
2024 – Present
  • Founded AI-powered marketing automation consultancy delivering productized growth systems, saving clients 9+ hrs/week
  • Increased marketing ROI 1.2x for service and hospitality businesses through Fractional CMO engagements and automation
  • Architected automation using n8n, Claude API, HubSpot, and RAG pipelines, improving response rates 22% and cutting sales cycles 18%
  • Deployed quiz funnels, AI chatbot lead magnets, and nurture sequences driving 19% higher conversion rates for clients
iPEC Coaching - Director of Marketing
2025 – 2026
  • Promoted to Director within 5 months, leading 4-person team across 5 business lines and multi-channel paid acquisition
  • Maintained 5.95x ROAS and delivered $2.5M in marketing-attributed revenue while navigating a 58% budget reduction
  • Restructured paid media and built a systematic testing framework, scaling campaign output 357% across platforms
  • Reduced Meta CPC 74% YoY while increasing ad volume 487%, reaching 1.1M users through optimized targeting
  • Pioneered quiz funnels converting at 30-50% vs. 5-15% industry standard, driving qualified leads at scale
  • Built end-to-end HubSpot automation with multi-touch attribution and lead scoring
Uplift Education - Manager of Digital Media & Content
2023 – 2025
  • Recruited by executive leadership to drive enrollment marketing for a 20-campus charter network of 23,000 scholars
  • Drove 4,000+ applications contributing to $20M+ in enrollment-based funding through ad campaigns and content strategy
  • Built HubSpot automation for lead nurturing, scoring, and segmentation, achieving 75% re-enrollment rate
  • Grew launch-period applications 7% YoY through targeted digital campaigns and cross-team coordination
Southern Methodist University - Digital Content Producer
2023
  • Enhanced SMU's web presence and graduate lead generation through content outlines, wireframes, and dev collaboration
  • Produced SEO-optimized digital content driving 15% growth in homepage engagement across graduate program pages
  • Increased average page duration 6% through multimedia integration and analytics-driven content strategy
  • Created repeatable content briefs and production templates that standardized output across teams
Chalupa Productions - Founder & Chief Creative Officer
2014 – Present
  • Founded B2B video production and brand narrative studio serving clients across tech, education, and lifestyle
  • Directed and managed crews on 20+ commercial projects, overseeing production from concept to completion
  • Produced brand films, event coverage, podcasts, and commercial content including web design and paid media
  • Collaborated with agencies to optimize media content for search engines with targeted keywords and metadata
Highland Park ISD - Digital Media Manager
2016 – 2023
  • Managed district flagship social and digital platforms, producing original content that grew engagement 30%
  • Spearheaded campaigns driving 15% YoY enrollment increase for students transitioning from private to public school
  • Led 6% YoY growth in newsletter engagement through content marketing and audience segmentation
  • Won 20+ TSPRA Gold Awards and 4 consecutive Professional Achievement Awards
CultureMap - Content Producer
2015 – 2020
  • Produced 150+ branded editorial videos from concept to completion as a white-label production service
  • Developed and pitched branded video content packages to advertisers, formalizing video as a revenue stream
  • Contributed content supporting $1.4M in funding across 4 rounds during the publication's startup phase
  • Optimized channel-specific content for maximum reach, driving 17% increase in advertiser form conversions

Systems I've Built

automationFeatured

NxtOps - Multi-Agent AI Stack

Self-hosted orchestration platform: 7 Claude Code agents with per-agent permissions, n8n workflows, Qdrant vector memory, NocoDB logging, Langfuse tracing. Runs on Docker/Portainer on Mac Mini M2 Pro.

Claude APIn8nDockerQdrantNocoDB
automationFeatured

Automated Job Search Pipeline

End-to-end system: JobSpy multi-platform scraping > Claude AI scoring (0-100) > auto-generated cover letters via Qdrant RAG > Playwright browser automation > NocoDB + HubSpot pipeline tracking.

PythonClaude APIPlaywrightn8nNocoDB
growth

Influencer Enrichment Pipeline

Scored and tiered thousands of contacts using Crawl4AI + Apify LinkedIn/Instagram scraping, automated influencer classification (A/B/C), and HubSpot property sync for outreach sequencing.

ApifyCrawl4AIn8nHubSpotPython
growthFeatured

AI Lead Magnet Chat Widget

RAG-powered conversational widget that replaces gated PDFs with real-time value exchange: Supabase vector store, n8n orchestration, and implicit lead scoring based on conversation intent.

Supabasen8nRAGClaude API
technical

Bricks Builder MCP Server

Open-source MCP server enabling AI-assisted WordPress page building with Bricks Builder - bridging no-code site building with programmatic control.

MCPWordPressNode.jsOpen Source
automation

Weekly Marketing Report Automation

n8n workflow pulling Google Ads, HubSpot, and Meta Ads data into a weekly digest with AI-generated summaries and anomaly detection - delivered via branded HTML email.

n8nGoogle AdsHubSpotClaude API

Technical Stack

Marketing & Analytics

HubSpot (Expert)Google AdsMeta AdsGA4 / GTMSEMRushPinterest Ads

Automation & AI

n8n (Builder)Claude / MCPQdrantOllamaLangfuseApify / Crawl4AI

Development

Next.jsReactPythonNode.jsDockerVercel

Infrastructure

NocoDBSupabasePortainerCloudflareHomebridgeMac Mini M2 Pro Server

Ventures

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Creative Work

Before the spreadsheets and the APIs, there was a camera and a darkroom. My creative practice spans documentary photography, alternative process printmaking (chemigrams, ziatypes, foil prints), glitch art, and video production. This creative foundation informs everything I build - systems should be as intentional as compositions.

Street photography - Matteo
Chemigram - alternative process print
Places - Dallas cityscape
Street photography - Fort Worth
Chemigram - abstract print
Street photography - Light
Photography
Video Production
Alternative Process
Glitch Art

Recognition

20+ TSPRA Gold Awards (Video, Newsletter, Marketing) · 4× Highland Park ISD Professional Achievement Award · Featured in Art214, 30 Under 30, Art in the Atrium exhibitions · HubSpot Certified: Inbound Marketing, Content Marketing, SEO