Scottsdale, Arizona · Exploring engineering roles

I build AI products from first prototype to production.

I'm the founder and sole engineer behind Sophosic, a live operations platform for small businesses. I work across agent orchestration, data, backend services, frontend, cloud infrastructure, and customer feedback.

3.5years building software & AI systems
8years in sales & team leadership
01live multi-tenant platform, built end-to-end
world finalist in professional esports
01 / SELECTED WORK

Selected work.

Products and public contributions that show how I approach applied AI, product engineering, and production reliability.

01Founder / Product / Engineering

Sophosic

A live operations platform that helps small businesses manage bookings, payments, customers, websites, and day-to-day work from one place, with an AI assistant built into the product.

I founded the company and built the product from the database through the agent layer and React console. It is live with real users and pilots.

OpenAI Agents SDKPython / FastAPIReact / Next.jsPostgreSQL / pgvectorGCP
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02Applied AI / Public data

FraudScope

A research prototype that uses public federal Medicare data to flag unusual provider behavior. Every score comes from deterministic rules and traces back to a checkable signal.

Built solo in under a week · roughly 100K providers · all 50 states · 28 patterns.

Palantir FoundryAIPOntologyPublic federal data
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03Open source / AI infrastructure

GPT-OSS Pro Mode

I contributed a new Agno model integration to this public Python project and added the supporting async, streaming, testing, documentation, logging, and error-handling work.

The public commit history shows my contributions across the integration and its developer experience.

PythonAgnoAsyncStreamingTests
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02 / CAPABILITIES

What I do.

I'm most useful on problems that need one person to connect product judgment with hands-on implementation across the stack.

A

Agent systems

I build agents that can retrieve context, use tools, ask for approval, and recover when work fails.

B

Full-stack products

I build the interface, APIs, data model, and service boundaries needed to turn an AI capability into a useful product.

C

Production ownership

I deploy and operate what I build, with tests, monitoring, staged releases, background work, and clear recovery paths.

D

Customer understanding

Eight years in sales and team leadership taught me how to find the real problem, explain decisions clearly, and use feedback well.

CORE TOOLBELT
PythonTypeScriptFastAPIReactPostgreSQLGCP Cloud RunPytestPlaywright
03 / BACKGROUND

Eight years working with customers changed the way I build software.

Alex Alford outdoors wearing sunglasses
JAMES ALEXANDER “ALEX” ALFORDSCOTTSDALE / AZ

I started in sales, training, and management, where the job was to understand what someone actually needed, not just what they first asked for.

That background still shapes my engineering work. I talk to users, turn ambiguous problems into concrete decisions, and follow features all the way through production. I moved into software full-time in 2023 and built the early agent-orchestration system that became Sophosic.

Builder & Founder

Sophosic Inc.

Founded and continue to operate a live AI product as its sole engineer, owning the product from database schema through the agent layer and user-facing console.

Engineering & Prototype Development

Independent

Built the agent-orchestration prototype and systems foundation that became Sophosic.

Sales, Training & Management

Wireless Advocates / TCC

Eight years of customer-facing work across consumer and B2B sales, including promotions into training and store management.

Team Lead

FlipSid3 Tactics

Led a professional Rainbow Six roster for more than five seasons and became a two-time World Finalist.

Reliable AI depends on the system around the model.
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