Senior engineer who ships, not slideware.

I’m Alex. Founder & CTO of TechTide AI, a Columbus, Ohio AI-automation agency, and co-host of the Automation Vibes podcast. I bring 13 years of mixed IT across support, systems, cloud, architecture, and engineering, with the last 2 years focused on AI implementation.

I’m a Lovable Champion and community leader, and I’ve completed Anthropic Academy courses in Agent Engineering, Claude Code, MCP, and Context Engineering. Along the way I wrote The Lovable.dev Prompting Guide, a build playbook other developers now work from, and shipped 12+ production applications with auth, billing, databases, and live users.

Most AI pilots die in pilot purgatory, a promising demo, then nothing changes. I don’t run pilots. In a focused six-week sprint I map how your business actually works, build one AI system that earns its place, and hand it to your team to own. Source code, docs, deploy, yours. No lock-in.