AI Engineer · Developer Advocate · Builder

Alberto Jauregui

GTM veteran turned AI engineer. I spent a decade in business development, partnerships, and growth at high-velocity startups — then taught myself to code and never looked back. Now I build agentic systems, ship fast, and bridge the gap between what engineers create and what users need.

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10+
Years in GTM & Growth
1000+
Hours Building at Gauntlet
Top 2%
CCAT Score (45/50)
Billions
API Requests Driven at Pocket
01 — The Story
From Closing Deals
to Shipping Code
The uncommon path from GTM leadership to AI engineering — and why that combination is my superpower.

My career started about as far from a terminal as you can get: waiting tables at Cody's Roadhouse, hustling for tips and learning how to read people. From there I pitched my way into creating a social media manager role at a local taco shop, interned at SOCOM researching how criminal organizations leverage crypto, and eventually found my way into the blockchain industry before most people had heard the word.

At Pocket Network, I grew from digital marketing manager to senior sales executive over four years. I onboarded chains like Fantom, NEAR, and Gnosis — driving billions of API requests through creative partnership strategies. My Dark Forest tournament sponsorship turned a $700 budget into hundreds of millions of relays and ~$250K in node operator income. I learned to think in systems, in incentives, in growth loops.

"I didn't just pivot to engineering — I expanded into it. The GTM instinct didn't go away. It became a lens for building things people actually want."

In 2023, I taught myself to code. Started with Cursor before most people knew it existed. By 2025, I was hand-selected for the Gauntlet AI Fellowship out of thousands of applicants — putting in ~100 hour weeks shipping AI-powered applications, agentic systems, and full-stack products. I scored in the top 2% on the cognitive assessment.

Today I build at the intersection of product thinking and engineering execution — the rare person who can architect a coding agent, write the marketing copy for it, and explain why it matters to a customer, an investor, or a developer audience.

02 — The Work
Selected Projects
From autonomous coding agents to legacy COBOL systems — each project ships real software solving real problems.
Agentic System
Talaria
A sync-based headless coding agent with a reactive UI running across four Docker containers. Features a novel "Code Mode" execution pattern that batches LLM tool calls into TypeScript scripts — cutting inference costs and reinvesting the savings into frontier models like Claude Opus and GPT-5.
TypeScript Docker Claude Opus GPT-5 Reactive UI WebSocket
Gauntlet AI
Capstone
RAG System
COBOLedu (LegacyLens)
Makes the GnuCOBOL legacy codebase queryable through natural language. Multi-pass retrieval with Voyage Code 3 embeddings, Pinecone vector search, Voyage rerank, and Claude for generation. Grounded in real Langfuse trace data for cost and performance metrics.
Python LlamaIndex Pinecone Voyage Code 3 Claude Sonnet FastAPI Railway
Gauntlet AI
Capstone
Collaborative App
CollabBoard
A real-time collaborative whiteboard with an AI assistant. Built on the tldraw SDK with Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects for sync, Supabase for auth and database, and OpenAI via the Cloudflare Agents SDK. Multiple users can draw, ideate, and get AI-powered suggestions in real time.
TypeScript tldraw SDK Cloudflare Workers Durable Objects Supabase OpenAI
Gauntlet AI
AI Diagnostics
Troubleshoot K8s Bundle Analyzer
An AI-powered web app that ingests Kubernetes support bundles and produces structured diagnostic reports using Claude. Built as a partner project for Replicated, with a FastAPI backend and vanilla HTML/CSS/JS frontend deployed on Railway.
Python FastAPI Claude API Kubernetes Railway HTML/CSS/JS
Gauntlet AI
Partner Project
Autonomous Pipeline
Ad Engine
An autonomous ad copy generation system for Varsity Tutors SAT prep campaigns. Multi-phase pipeline using Gemini Flash Lite for text, Gemini Flash for vision analysis, and Gemini's image generation model for creatives, with a Streamlit GUI for campaign management.
Python Gemini Flash Gemini Vision Streamlit Image Gen
Gauntlet AI
Partner Project
Educational Game
Word Detective
A collaborative educational game built for the Board.fun touchscreen console using Unity and C#. Domain expertise and content review provided by a former teacher. Designed to make vocabulary building engaging and social through multiplayer gameplay.
C# Unity Board.fun SDK Game Design
Gauntlet AI
Sprint
Agentic System
Finance Education Agent
A conversational agent that teaches personal finance concepts through portfolio analysis. Built on Ghostfolio with LangGraph.js for orchestration, Claude Sonnet for reasoning, PostgreSQL + Prisma for persistence, Redis for caching, and Langfuse for observability.
LangGraph.js LangChain.js Claude Sonnet Ghostfolio PostgreSQL Redis Langfuse
Gauntlet AI
Hackathon Ship
AI Adventure — Farcaster MiniApp
An "AI Dungeon"-style choose-your-own-adventure game shipped solo at a 24-hour hackathon. Each scene generates narrative choices and an accompanying image. Packaged as a Farcaster MiniApp using Coinbase MiniKit, Llama 3.3 70B for text, and Stable Diffusion XL Lightning for images.
Next.js Coinbase MiniKit Llama 3.3 SDXL Lightning Vercel Farcaster
24hr Hackathon
NYC
03 — The Journey
Experience
A decade-long arc from growth hacker to AI engineer — with every role building on the last.
2025 — Present
AI Engineer Fellow
Gauntlet AI — Cohort 4
Hand-selected from thousands of applicants. ~1000 hours across 10 weeks building AI-powered applications and agentic systems. Shipped 8+ projects including autonomous coding agents, RAG systems, collaborative real-time apps, and 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
Spearheaded ETHonline and ETHdenver sponsorships (34 projects built). Turned a $700 Dark Forest tournament budget into ~$250K in node operator income through creative 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 how criminal organizations leverage digital currencies. Hand-picked for the DIA's ICCAE Summer Seminar.
04 — Education
Background
M.A. Global Sustainability
University of South Florida — Food Systems & Security
B.A. Psychology
University of South Florida
B.A. Communication
University of South Florida — Public Advocacy
AI Engineer Fellowship
Gauntlet AI — Cohort 4
DevRel Essentials
DevRel Uni — Cohort 6
AI Agents Fundamentals
Hugging Face
Let's Build Something

I'm looking for Developer Relations and AI engineering roles where GTM instinct meets technical execution.
Open to conversations about startups, developer tools, and agentic systems.