hi, i'm alex

i like to understand how things work – fundamentally.
Deeply interested in technology, philosophy, and the human brain, I tinker, create, and work

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Richard Feynman

experience

2025 – 2026ai lead, armin — remote. building the top customer-experience ai
2024 – 2025senior software engineer, gnosis pay — freelance
2023 – 2024cto, hippo ai foundation — berlin. grew the community from nothing to 2,000+ members (600+ researchers); redesigned hippoai.org; built askpaper.ai, a research rag system, from 0 to 10k users in under 9 months
2020 – 2022software engineer, volkswagen — berlin. data and full-stack engineering on 4+ internal products, and one data product across 12 brands

2023heyjarvis.co — an agent-based personal assistant, back when we were still working with gpt-3.5. grew from nothing to hundreds of dollars a month, before i shut it down: the tech wasn't ready yet
2022berlin building identifier — my first usable ai project. i collected the data myself, cycling around berlin taking pictures of buildings in all kinds of light, then stretched it with artificial augmentation: warping, bending and the like
more to come

amigos do chapim — co-founder. an association giving kids from underfunded neighbourhoods a way into creative expression