# Alejandro Gonzalez, full profile

> Engineering Manager at Clio in Toronto, Canada, leading the Financial Compliance team within Billing Services. 14+ years at the intersection of engineering and finance, now building AI-native engineering teams that ship production code with humans in the loop.

Alejandro Gonzalez is an engineering manager who has spent his career where software meets money. He leads the Financial Compliance team within Billing Services at Clio, a cloud-based legal technology company, where the team owns tax, government regulations, reporting obligations across jurisdictions, and the audit and controls readiness that comes with preparing a company for an IPO. Before Clio he led payroll and tax services at Wave Financial and drove multi-currency and local payment method expansion at Shopify.

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## Focus areas

- **Fintech engineering.** Payroll and tax at Wave Financial, multi-currency and FX at Shopify, billing and financial compliance at Clio. Systems where a rounding error is a regulatory finding.
- **Financial compliance.** Tax engines, government regulations, cross-jurisdiction reporting, audit trails, and controls readiness ahead of IPO scrutiny.
- **AI-native engineering.** Building "AI factories": agents, harnesses, evaluation loops, and guardrails wired into the delivery pipeline so teams ship real production code at pace, with humans in the loop at the decision points where judgment matters. In regulated financial systems, human review is not optional.
- **Engineering leadership.** Leads with context rather than task assignment, on the view that engineers do their best work when they understand why it matters. Builds teams where problems are raised early, questions are welcome, and people are trusted to make the call. Measures success by how much the people on the team grow.

## Experience

- **Clio** (2023 to present): Engineering Manager, Financial Compliance (within Billing Services). Tax, government regulations, audit and IPO readiness, AI-native delivery.
- **Shopify** (Jul 2021 to May 2023): Development Manager. Multi-currency growth for the Markets team (38% GMV increase), local payment methods across 5 countries.
- **Wave Financial** (Nov 2017 to Jul 2021): Engineering Lead. Led a team of seven, expanded tax services to fourteen states, implemented COVID-19 payroll relief policies for US and Canadian payroll.
- **Lush Concepts** (Jun 2012 to Nov 2017): Development Manager. End-to-end Ruby on Rails delivery, managed developers and contractors.

## Open source projects

- [context-bart](https://github.com/alejandrok5/context-bart): Smart Zone / Dumb Zone context-window meter for Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, and other AI coding agents (JavaScript).
- [claude-desktop-linux](https://github.com/alejandrok5/claude-desktop-linux): Run Claude Desktop natively on Linux, with no Wine and no VM (JavaScript).
- [setup](https://github.com/alejandrok5/setup): One-command Debian and i3 desktop bootstrap with themed dotfiles (Shell).
- [asus-config](https://github.com/alejandrok5/asus-config): Idempotent, per-component hardware setup scripts for an ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED on Debian 13 (Shell).

## Contact

- Email: contact@alejandrok5.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandrok5/
- GitHub: https://github.com/alejandrok5
- Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/alejandrok5
- Blog: https://alejandrok5.wordpress.com

## Resume

- [Resume (PDF)](https://alejandrok5.com/resume.pdf)

## Site

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