Alexander Pulido

Senior Staff Full-Stack & AI Systems Engineer with 10+ years of proven success

alexanderpulido81@gmail.comwww.linkedin.com/in/alexander-pulido-1aa24b134

Professional Summary

Senior Staff Full-Stack & AI Systems Engineer with 10+ years of proven success architecting elite digital products, high-throughput Fintech/InsureTech infrastructure, and advanced AI integrations. Recognized for entering complex, high-stakes environments to engineer custom technical solutions, rescue failing critical paths, and architect systems from zero to production or acquisition. Deeply versatile across systems programming, concurrent functional paradigms and enterprise ecosystems

Core Competencies

EdTech Leadership & M&A: Spearheaded the B2B product at Clutch Prep that drove its acquisition by Pearson. Co-architected Pearson Channels nearly from the ground up and engineered the critical, highly complex data migration pipeline from relational databases to Pearson's NoSQL infrastructure with zero downtime.
FinTech & High-Stakes Recovery: Saved a critical launch at SecureBancard by single-handedly executing 80% of the architecture for Dual BIN support, preventing project failure.
Fully engineered PMX Affiliate Marketplace and seamlessly integrated it into the Shopify ecosystem.
AI Architecture & Compliance: Successfully navigated compliance to launch GRCTechMe on the Google Workspace Marketplace. Expert in secure LLM orchestration (Gemini, Claude), secure enterprise AI portals, and custom audio TTS synthesis pipelines (e.g., edge-tts).
InsureTech & Automation Architect: Engineered InsurAdmin from scratch, a robust platform managing complex carrier feeds and agency teams. Developed the core infrastructure for Agency Rocket, including proprietary automation parsers and complex Stripe billing frameworks.
Nebulith: Creator and lead architect of a proprietary, highly optimized custom game engine, launching to the commercial market soon.
Deep Learning: Actively engineering custom neural network architectures from scratch to bridge the gap between traditional backend systems and custom AI agents.
Scalable Social Infrastructure: Acted as a core backend developer in the foundational stages of Truth Social, optimizing the Ruby on Rails infrastructure alongside Mastodon core developers.

Current Positions

Senior Staff Engineer

Present

DBA - https://dbadbadba.com/

Enterprise software development for insurance and financial services.

CTO

Present

PMX - https://getpmx.com

Leading technical strategy for affiliate marketplace platform.

CTO

Present

GRCTechMe - https://grctechme.com/

Building audit and compliance technology for legal professionals.

Key Projects & Achievements

Agency Rocket

Sales and illustration suite for insurance agents

The Agency Rocket marketing suite (My New Retirement, Wealth United, etc.)

Impact: Testimonials cite 5x business and $50,000+ months

Tech: Vue, Quasar, GraphQL, Elixir, Phoenix

PMX Affiliate Marketplace

Affiliate program for Shopify brands that traces every order to its affiliate

Engineered, developed and launched the full-stack architecture of the affiliate marketplace, with a native integration into the Shopify ecosystem.

Impact: Top client grew affiliate ROAS from 2 to 3x to 5.5x

Tech: Rails, GraphQL, Next, React, TypeScript

InsurAdmin

Agency management for insurance agencies and IMOs

A platform managing complex carrier feeds and agency teams

Impact: Clients live in 2 to 4 weeks

Tech: Elixir, Phoenix, LiveView, htmx, PostgreSQL

SecureBancard

Payments company for ISOs and ISVs ("the alternative to big payment processors"), Pioneer platform

He learned and built what multi BIN needed, migrating thousands of lines and hundreds of queries and mutations from Node.js to Elixir by hand

Impact: Saved a high-stakes, time-sensitive launch by single-handedly engineering 80% of the Dual BIN support implementation, hitting strict compliance deadlines

Tech: Angular, NgRx, Node, Phoenix, LiveView

Pearson Channels

Pearson's video learning product, built nearly from the ground up

He moved all of ClutchPrep's data into it, working, and built major features: exam preps, video lessons, shared widgets

ClutchPrep

The B2B system that kept schools running through the pandemic

Key in the work that closed the acquisition by Pearson

Tech: Ruby

GRCTechMe

Governance, risk and compliance app

He got it onto the Google Cloud Marketplace

Impact: Passing review on the first try with no fixes

Tech: React, Vite, Tailwind, Firebase, Sequelize

Technical Skills

Languages: Elixir, TypeScript, JavaScript, Ruby, Python, C#, C++, PHP, SQL, HTML/CSS, Terraform/HCL
Backend Frameworks: Phoenix, Rails, Express, Laravel, .NET, Node.js, Ash Framework, Absinthe (GraphQL)
Frontend Frameworks: React, Vue.js, Angular, Next.js, Quasar, LiveView, Tailwind CSS, Three.js/WebGL
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, Firebase/Firestore
Cloud & DevOps: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Cloud (GCP), AWS, Azure (AKS), Railway, Netlify, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions
Integrations & APIs: Shopify API, Stripe, Google Workspace API, Slack API, GraphQL/Apollo, REST APIs, OAuth/Auth0, Sentry
AI & Automation: Claude/Anthropic API, OpenAI/GPT, Google Gemini, Prompt Engineering, AI-assisted Development

Professional Experience

Senior Staff Software Engineer

2023 - Present

Daring Bit Assembly, Inc (DBA)

InsurAdmin (InsureTech automation): developed InsurAdmin from scratch, a platform managing complex carrier feeds and agency teams.
Agency Rocket: engineered core automation parsers (Annuity, IUL, Whole Life) and fully integrated the Stripe billing engine for the Agency Rocket marketing suite (My New Retirement, Wealth United, Debt Action Plan).
Datepal: co PM and development lead of a dating app where singles are invited by their coupled friends to events and get to meet other people from those circles. Built Veriff identity and age verification, ranking APIs with card stacks, SMS notifications on lifecycle events and Stripe checkout in the Phoenix and Ash backend.
PMX Affiliate Marketplace: engineered, developed and launched the full-stack architecture of the affiliate marketplace, with a native integration into the Shopify ecosystem.
SecureBancard (critical project rescue): saved a high-stakes, time-sensitive launch by single-handedly engineering 80% of the Dual BIN support implementation, hitting strict compliance deadlines.
Truth Social (foundational stages): embedded as a backend engineer during the foundational architecture phases, collaborating closely with Mastodon core developers to scale and optimize the Ruby on Rails backend.

Senior Full Stack Engineer

2022 - 2023

Pearson

Designed and executed the data migration strategy, linking legacy SQL data into Pearson's enterprise NoSQL infrastructure.
He moved all of ClutchPrep's data into it, working, and built major features: exam preps, video lessons, shared widgets

Full Stack Engineer

2019 - 2022

Clutch Prep

Led the B2B system that kept schools running through the pandemic
Key in the work that closed the acquisition by Pearson

Senior Full Stack Developer

2017 - 2019

DailyDrip/SmoothTerminal

One of my most popular video series taught how to build pixel art characters with shadows and css when css was still very limited
Taught how to migrate the code from css to sass and stylus, taught ITCSS and how to work with javascript and handle WCAG AAA audits
How to work to get pixel perfect design implementations when it was hard and figma wasn't a thing

Fullstack Developer

2016 - 2017

SolutionRus

Head of technical service

2014 - 2015

Altomi

Instructor

2014 - 2015

Fundacite Falcón

Junior programmer

2014 - 2014

DeCompra Colombia

Education

Ingeniero en Sistemas, UNEFA, 2008 to 2014

Spanish and English native, Italian basic