# Alejandro Gonzalez

> Engineering Manager specializing in fintech, financial compliance, and AI-native software engineering. Based in Toronto, Canada. 14+ years leading engineering teams where software meets money.

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## Current focus

- AI-native engineering teams
- Agentic coding workflows
- Agent harnesses
- Evaluation systems
- Human-in-the-loop production engineering

An AI factory is an engineering system where agents handle repeatable implementation work, harnesses provide context and tooling, evals measure the output, and humans own the decisions that require judgment.

## Domain expertise

- Financial compliance
- Payments
- Tax
- Multi-currency systems
- Payroll
- Audit and IPO readiness

## Career

- Clio, Engineering Manager, Financial Compliance (2023 to present)
- Shopify, Development Manager (2021 to 2023)
- Wave Financial, Engineering Lead (2017 to 2021)
- Lush Concepts, Development Manager (2012 to 2017)

## Projects

- [context-bart](https://github.com/alejandrok5/context-bart): context-window meter for Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, and other AI coding agents
- [claude-desktop-linux](https://github.com/alejandrok5/claude-desktop-linux): run Claude Desktop natively on Linux
- [setup](https://github.com/alejandrok5/setup): one-command Debian and i3 desktop bootstrap
- [asus-config](https://github.com/alejandrok5/asus-config): hardware setup scripts for an ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED on Debian

## Links

- Email: contact@alejandrok5.com
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandrok5/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/alejandrok5)
- [Resume (PDF)](https://alejandrok5.com/resume.pdf)
- [Blog](https://alejandrok5.wordpress.com)

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