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Software engineer for more than half a decade, shipping product with 
12+ hours a day. Previously @ 
, then 
, where I shipped Claude Code plugins company-wide and taught ~500 engineers to build with agents. Now independent: I write about engineering, AI, the tech industry from my own lens, coach engineers (and really anyone) one on one, and ship random side projects. Currently creating a soda, building a video game, and making music under SUIMA, all shipped with the help of Claude.
What people say
Work with me →“One of the key technical drivers behind our organization's adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices.”
“Consistently impressed by his ability to provide creative solutions for complex problems.”
“Alex's code is always well-documented, easily maintainable, and performance-optimized.”
“My confidence and capabilities in both coding and system design interviews increased dramatically.”
“He is able to break down every single problem and explain them in an effortless style.”
The Dispatch: Featured
Article🧛 Stop Reading Every Line of Code!
If you keep reviewing things like it's 2016 in 2026, your process is going to break.
MAR 1 · 7 minEngineering
NoteTeaching CLAUDE.md to 500 engineers at EngX
Two days, 500 engineers, a 90-minute talk on teaching Claude what it can't learn from your code. Here's what crystallizing more than half a decade of instincts taught me.
APR 21 · 1 minEveryone
Article🔥 Claude Code Is (Seriously) Burning Me Out
I'm more productive than I've ever been in my life. I'm also more burned out than I've ever been in my life. Those two things are not a coincidence.
MAR 22 · 4 minEveryone
NoteClaude won't kill junior engineering jobs
I keep hearing this take and I heavily disagree. But the juniors who don't adapt are going to get left behind.
APR 9 · 2 minEveryone
He works the night shift on the reading list.
The Workshop
Eye Break
Stare at a screen all day? Have eye pain? Eye Break lives in your menu bar and runs the 20-20-20 rule: every 20 minutes, look 20 feet away for 20 seconds. The actual technique eye doctors recommend. Free.
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