Real AI engineering,
taught in the open.
Consulting for engineering teams, 1:1 coaching on Claude for engineers and non-technical teams, custom automation builds, and a YouTube channel where I share the whole practice. No 10x-pitch hype, no vendor slop.
Coaching, interviews, and workflow builds.
Claude coaching for engineers and non-technical teams alike (sales, finance, operations, marketing), coding-interview prep, engineering-resume review, and custom workflow builds for the repetitive thing you would rather stop doing by hand.
Claude coaching
One-on-one coaching on Claude, taught by an engineer who rolled it out across the 500-plus engineer org at The New York Times. Works for engineers building with Claude Code, and equally for non-technical teams (sales, finance, operations, marketing, execs) trying to actually use Claude in their day-to-day work.
Details and pricingData structures, algorithms, coding roundsInterview prep
One-on-one coaching for coding interviews at Amazon, The New York Times, and companies that hire like them. Real problems, real feedback, real patterns you take into the room.
Details and pricingThe engineer resume, read by an engineerResume review
A written review of your engineering resume from someone who has been on the other side of the pile at Amazon and The New York Times. Line-level edits, not vibes.
Details and pricingI build the automation, you keep itWorkflow builds
You describe the repetitive work (an internal report, a research doc, a data pipeline, a CRM handoff, a weekly digest). I build the automation, test it against your real data, and hand it over documented well enough that your team can own it after I am gone.
Details and pricingI also run fixed-scope engagements for engineering teams.
An AI Coding ROI Readout, a deeper Accelerator that installs the fix, and a standalone CLAUDE.md Workshop. Published pricing, honest measurement, artifacts you keep. Built for engineering orgs of roughly 20 to 500 engineers. Full pitch on the services page.
AI Coding ROI Readout
A 2-week diagnostic that finds exactly where your system is leaking the AI spend (review bandwidth, workflow, guardrails), and the on-ramp to installing the fix. You keep a board-ready deck and a keep, renegotiate, fix, or cut recommendation.
DetailsAI-Native Delivery Accelerator
The deeper engagement the Readout points to: install the operating-model fix and prove it on one team and one repo, with a before-and-after number.
DetailsCLAUDE.md Workshop
A live 90-minute working session that encodes your team's standards into your real repositories, so coding agents follow the way you already ship: context files, review habits, and workflows tuned to your codebase.
DetailsHonest numbers, not vendor numbers.
I measure seat activation, weekly actives, and AI-involved pull requests before and after. Small numbers I can prove beat big numbers I cannot.
You work with me, not a bench.
Software engineer for more than half a decade, previously at 
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. At The New York Times I was named one of the company’s AI Champions: I shipped Claude Code plugins the whole company adopted as the second-most-prolific contributor to our internal marketplace, delivered three presentations including a CLAUDE.md talk at the internal EngX conference, and helped teach ~500 engineers to build with agents. On my own team I wrote the AI-assisted migration script that turned a year-plus migration into a few months of work.
That work became the practice. You meet me on the discovery call, and you work with me on the engagement. No handoff, no junior consultant, no slide factory. What ships is real, and it is yours the day the engagement ends.
# CLAUDE.md## How agents work in this repo- Agents draft. Engineers own every merge.- AI-authored diffs meet the same reviewbar as human code. No rubber stamps.- Architecture decisions live in /docs.Agents read them before writing code.- Secrets, migrations, and prod configstay human-owned. Always.$ claude commit
What engineers who led with me say.
Verbatim recommendations. Every name links to a real profile; nothing here is anonymized or paraphrased.
“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.”
The channel is new. Real videos on the way.
I’m building a YouTube channel about the same practice you see everywhere else on this site: AI engineering, from real production work, no vendor hype. Follow now to catch the first videos when they land.
Channel just launched
Field notes from real rollouts.
Notes on Claude Code and AI engineering, from production work. Published on Substack.
After dark
My side projects, the games, and the free Eye Break app all live in Count Tongula’s Castle: the original vampire-themed cut of this site. Wander in whenever you like.
Enter Count Tongula’s CastleTell me what you are working on.
A rollout, an interview loop, a resume, a Claude workflow, an automation you want to stop doing by hand. The discovery call is 30 minutes and free. You leave with a read on the shape, whether or not we end up working together.
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