Alberto Jauregui — AI Engineer & Builder

01 — Story

How I got here

GTM for a decade, then engineering. Both still show up in the work.

Started waiting tables at Cody's Roadhouse. Pitched my way into a social media role at a local taco shop, interned at SOCOM researching how criminal orgs use crypto, then landed in blockchain while it was still early.

At Pocket Network I went from digital marketing manager to senior sales over four years. Onboarded Fantom, NEAR, and Gnosis — billions of API requests via partnership work. A $700 Dark Forest tournament sponsorship produced hundreds of millions of relays and ~$250K in node operator income.

"I still think like GTM. I just write the code now too."

Taught myself to code in 2023, mostly in Cursor. In 2025 I got into the Gauntlet AI Fellowship (~1000 hours across 10 weeks) shipping agentic systems and full-stack apps. Top 2% on the CCAT.

I can architect a coding agent, write the landing copy, and demo it to a customer or a room of developers. That's the job I want.

Current Focus

Agentic systems and AI apps. Looking at Developer Relations and founding-engineer roles at early-stage startups.

Stack

Good at

Shipping 0→1. Building in public. Talking to developers. Hackathon pace. Running community events.

02 — Work

Selected Projects

Coding agents, RAG over COBOL, real-time collab, games. Shipped and demoed.

Agentic System

Talaria

Sync-based headless coding agent with a reactive UI across four Docker containers. "Code Mode" batches LLM tool calls into TypeScript scripts, which cuts inference cost so more budget goes to frontier models (Claude Opus, GPT-5).

TypeScript Docker Claude Opus GPT-5 Reactive UI WebSocket

Gauntlet AI
Capstone

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RAG System

COBOLedu (LegacyLens)

Natural-language Q&A over the GnuCOBOL codebase. Multi-pass retrieval: Voyage Code 3 embeddings, Pinecone, Voyage rerank, Claude for generation. Cost/perf metrics from Langfuse traces.

Python LlamaIndex Pinecone Voyage Code 3 Claude Sonnet FastAPI Railway

Gauntlet AI
Capstone

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Collaborative App

CollabBoard

Real-time collaborative whiteboard with an AI sidekick. tldraw SDK, Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects for sync, Supabase for auth/DB, OpenAI via the Cloudflare Agents SDK. Multiple users draw and get suggestions live.

TypeScript tldraw SDK Cloudflare Workers Durable Objects Supabase OpenAI

Gauntlet AI

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AI Diagnostics

Troubleshoot K8s Bundle Analyzer

Web app that ingests Kubernetes support bundles and returns structured diagnostic reports via Claude. Partner project for Replicated. FastAPI backend, vanilla HTML/CSS/JS frontend on Railway.

Python FastAPI Claude API Kubernetes Railway HTML/CSS/JS

Gauntlet AI
Partner Project

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Autonomous Pipeline

Ad Engine

Autonomous ad copy system for Varsity Tutors SAT prep campaigns. Pipeline: Gemini Flash Lite for text, Gemini Flash for vision, Gemini image gen for creatives. Streamlit GUI for campaign management.

Python Gemini Flash Gemini Vision Streamlit Image Gen

Gauntlet AI
Partner Project

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Educational Game

Word Detective

Multiplayer vocab game for the Board.fun touchscreen console. Unity + C#. Content reviewed with a former teacher.

C# Unity Board.fun SDK Game Design

Gauntlet AI
Sprint

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Agentic System

Finance Education Agent

Conversational agent that teaches personal finance via portfolio analysis. Ghostfolio + LangGraph.js, Claude Sonnet, PostgreSQL/Prisma, Redis, Langfuse.

LangGraph.js LangChain.js Claude Sonnet Ghostfolio PostgreSQL Redis Langfuse

Gauntlet AI

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Hackathon Ship

AI Adventure — Farcaster MiniApp

"AI Dungeon"-style CYOA game, solo 24-hour hackathon ship. Each scene gets narrative choices plus an image. Farcaster MiniApp via Coinbase MiniKit, Llama 3.3 70B, SDXL Lightning.

Next.js Coinbase MiniKit Llama 3.3 SDXL Lightning Vercel Farcaster

24hr Hackathon
NYC

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03 — Experience

Experience

Growth and partnerships first. AI engineering next.

2025 — Present

AI Engineer Fellow

Gauntlet AI — Cohort 4

Selected from thousands of applicants. ~1000 hours across 10 weeks on AI apps and agentic systems. Shipped 8+ projects: coding agents, RAG, real-time collab, educational games.

2025 — Present

Cursor Ambassador

Cursor (Community)

Hosting meetups, workshops, and hackathons for the Cursor community in the Tampa Bay area. First event drew 43 attendees from ~80 RSVPs. Building community content, organizing with Linear and Claude Cowork.

Feb 2025 — May 2025

Head of BD & Developer Relations

Kolwaii

Secured a strategic grant from Virtuals Protocol enabling Kolwaii's relaunch as a featured AI agent. Coordinated PR for thought leadership including an op-ed in the AI Journal. Designed a Farcaster airdrop strategy targeting ~50K blockchain developers.

Feb 2022 — Feb 2023

Senior Infrastructure Sales Executive

Pocket Network

Led partnerships with FUSE, Fantom, NEAR, and Gnosis — onboarding 100M-300M API requests per day. Secured a $50K grant from NEAR Foundation. Drove 40M requests from Fantom within the first 24 hours of launch.

May 2020 — Feb 2022

Ecosystem Growth Lead

Pocket Network

Ran ETHonline and ETHdenver sponsorships (34 projects built). Turned a $700 Dark Forest tournament budget into ~$250K in node operator income with incentive design.

Dec 2018 — May 2020

Digital Marketing Manager

Pocket Network

Built all community channels from zero to tens of thousands. Applied SEO to drive 25K+ views across dev-focused YouTube content. Wrote newsletters with above-average engagement rates.

2015 — 2016

Research Team Lead (Intern)

SOCOM J36 AML Unit

Presented "The Future of Threat Finance" at the Five Eyes Conference. Researched criminal orgs using digital currencies. Selected for the DIA's ICCAE Summer Seminar.