Alejandro Esquivel

Co-Founder

Blocks

Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 8 months)

Working to turn coding agents into collaborative teammates for software teams

Staff Full-Stack Software Engineer

Guardrails AI

Jun 2024 - Current (2 years 3 months)

Worked on Guardrails AI which pioneered LLM Guardrails, improving model reliability by steering LLM outputs. Built Snowglobe, a simulation platform for testing agents and chatbots with synthetic data. Led development of in-house inference clusters, maintained the Guardrails AI open-source repo, and designed backend and infrastructure for Guardrails AI and Snowglobe.

Engineering Lead

Agnostiq

Jan 2022 - Jun 2024 (2 years 6 months)

Acquired by DataRobot, quantum software/cloud/HPC startup that allows developers to run jobs in any hardware with the addition of a single decorator. I led the company's engineering team which included orchestrating releases (Open-Source & SaaS), mentoring engineers, incorporating standard software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices, developing infra & application code, and developing CI/CD to enhance dev efficiency. Responsibilities: - Manage a team of engineers to build and ship an open-source project and SaaS solution - Overseeing daily standups and conducting retrospectives - I was the go-to for technical approach decisions and authored comprehensive technical design documents for major architectural updates - My hands-on contributi

Senior Developer

Certn

Feb 2021 - Aug 2021 (7 months)

As a backend developer in Certn I was hired to assist them in building out a fullstack application for the support team to be able to manually review any uncertain background check profiles Responsibilities: - Extend their monolith to expose a set of API endpoints using Python & Django - Extend their Postgres DB schema with additional tables, fields - Build out a new React/Redux dashboard to integrate with the newly built API - Ensure test coverage met and own the feature until production release - Also had to write a custom OAuth request signing lib for Netsuite’s SOAP APIs 🫠

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Engineering Partner

Commit.dev

Jan 2021 - Apr 2022 (1 year 4 months)

I joined a network of product driven engineers (Commit) which enabled me to collaborate extensively and pair with a diverse array of companies, adapting quickly to different development environments and team dynamics. Responsibilties: - Develop frontend applications using React/Redux/Typescript - Created demos (for fun) including an application using ML to log in to a web page using facial recognition (not intended to be used in production) - Developed python APIs using Django and Postgres - To work with companies with varying software stacks to help out their development team

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Founder & Technical Director

Dec 2018 - Jan 2023 (4 years 2 months)

As the founding member and technical director for this software development agency I coordinated the execution of all technical work for various projects including for IBM Watson, Telus, Sprint, and government. Responsibilities: - Architect all technical projects infrastructural components and ensure all application logic adheres to best practices - Worked with various clouds including: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM - Developed backend applications using Node/Typescript and Python - Developed frontend applications using CSS, React/Typescript, Angular.js and Vue - Worked with Kubernetes and Openshift for orchestrating containers as well as Helm for plugins - Developed various AI / machine learning models spanning many use cases in NLP & Comp

Backend Developer

TELUS Technology

Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 (3 months)

Worked as an API Developer under the Home Solutions team in Telus Digital. Responsibilities: - Deploy Node.js microservices to OpenShift (Kubernetes) - Test & Build features for the Offers API in Telus - Engage in discussions about future architecture improvements

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Founding Engineer

Oct 2016 - Dec 2017 (1 year 3 months)

Acquired by Alida (formerly Vision Critical) in December 2017 Aida uses AI to provide immediate assistance for customers asking common support questions so they can solve their issue before it becomes a ticket. First employee hire at Aida, responsible for building core backend client-facing Node.js applications under a Microservices architecture and utilizing Kubernetes for container orchestration. Responsibilities: - Developed and maintained an embeddable javascript widget for our clients to offer automated support for ticket deflection, using Javascript and Webpack. - Developed backend Node.js services which interfaced with our NLP model. - Developed internal & client-facing dashboards with Angular & Grunt. - Worked with Helm to deploy mi

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Full Stack Developer

Aug 2016 - Oct 2016 (3 months)

Responsibilities: - Re-built enterprise website's food ordering shopping cart in Angular - Created a real-time group food ordering application using Angular while receiving web socket data that used Socket.io & Node.js

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Founder

Alcohol2Me

Sep 2015 - Mar 2016 (7 months)

Founded a liquor delivery service in the UBC campus area. Responsibilities: - Built a website using MEAN (Mongo, Express.js, Angular.js, and Node.js) stack. - Used Twilio to confirm orders via SMS, and disseminate orders to drivers/cyclists.

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Founder

Jan 2014 - Oct 2016 (2 years 10 months)

Founded a retention oriented deals platform. Responsibilities: - Developed an Android/iOS application using the Ionic Framework - Used Mongo DB, Node.js (Express.js), and Angular (MEAN stack) for client facing website and internal API. - Contributed to Sales & Marketing Plan - Cold calling local businesses

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Founder

AE Studios

Jan 2007 - Sep 2014 (7 years 9 months)

Founded a web development firm for local Vancouver businesses, as well as led development for all projects. Responsibilities: - Develop Flash, HTML, CSS websites when needed from Photoshop mocks - Disseminate partial work to overseas freelancers - Created Flash CMS system for flash based websites - Developed online PHP FTP client for users to manage their content

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