What are you here for?
Two different things live here. Pick the one that sounds like you and I will show you only that.
It is just me.
Coaching on Claude, coding-interview prep, a resume read by an engineer, or an automation built for the thing you keep doing by hand. Priced per session or per build.
See the four ↓For my teamI am buying for a team.
Three fixed-scope engagements for engineering orgs of roughly 20 to 500 engineers: find where the AI-coding spend leaks, install the fix, prove the delta on one team.
See the team engagements →Ex-Amazon · Ex-The New York Times · Prices published
Work with me, one on one.
Priced by the session or the build, no retainers. If the first session is not useful, I refund it.
Claude coaching
One-on-one coaching from the engineer who taught 500+ engineers at The New York Times how to get more out of Claude. 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.
Interview 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.
Resume 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.
Workflow 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.
If your Claude Code rollout is not showing a return.
Three fixed-scope engagements led by an AI Coding ROI Readout, for engineering orgs of roughly 20 to 500 engineers: find where the AI-coding spend is leaking, install the operating-model fix, and prove the delta on one team. Published pricing, honest measurement anchored to independent research, artifacts you keep.
Smaller than that, or the thing you actually want is one repetitive workflow taken off your team’s plate? Workflow builds is scoped per build and works the same whether you are one person or twelve.
Questions people ask.
What does the first session actually look like?
You email me, I reply with a short intake (what you are prepping for or want to get better at), we book a 60-minute slot over video. Sessions are worked against your real material: your repository, your resume, your interview loop, your recurring workflow. Recorded on request. I send targeted homework at the end so the next session picks up mid-stride, not from zero.
Refund policy on coaching?
If you are not getting value out of the first session, I refund it. For 5-hour packages, unused sessions are refunded on request. The point is that you leave every session with something you can use tomorrow; if that is not landing, we do not spend more of your money on it.
Interview prep: do you cover system design and behaviorals, or just coding?
Coding rounds first (data structures, algorithms, communication under pressure), which is what most engineers actually need at Amazon-tier loops. System design is available on request but not the default; I stay out of Staff-and-up system-design coaching because that is not the depth I ship at day-to-day. Behaviorals I coach as part of a package (STAR framing, tricky-question rehearsal) but do not sell as their own service.
I am not an engineer. Can you really coach me on Claude?
Yes, this is a big part of who I take on. If you work in sales, finance, operations, marketing, or as an executive and want to actually use Claude on real work (not toy prompts), sessions are shaped around the recurring work you already do: research, memos, analysis, decks, email, workflows. We use Projects and prompt patterns, not code. No prior Claude experience required.
Tell me what you are working on.
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.
alextongme@gmail.com→I reply within one business day