About
I'm Alex. 26, central Virginia, first-gen Guatemalan American.
During the day I work in regulatory operations at Capital One. At night I build tools. The impulse is the same in both -- find where the system breaks and fix it.
I broke my spine and femur at 19. Came out of it understanding that identity is something you rebuild. That shows up in the work.
Guardian started because I noticed language models subtly rewriting how I described myself. Not overtly -- just enough to shift the framing over time. That became a desktop app with a reframe detection engine. Then it surfaced a deeper problem, so I started building ForgeFrame -- middleware for keeping your intelligence stack local and yours. The memory layer is open source. The governance layer is not.
I'm pursuing a Master of Engineering in Product Innovation. I learned Python weeks before I shipped my first working system. Started as a bank teller. The work keeps moving.
I'm building for a future where the safeguards are as good as the tools they're guarding.
This site is hand-built. View source if you want to know how.
Elsewhere
- GitHub -- open source work
- LinkedIn -- professional history
- Substack -- writing on identity modeling and system design