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Alex Cavazos

I ship companies, not features.

Technical co-founder in Monterrey, Mexico.

I design, build and run software products end to end: the product, the infrastructure, the payments and tax integrations, and the AI agents that handle parts of the work.

Co-founder and CTO at Octagon Labs and Turboship.

cat work

  1. 2025 – now

    Octagon Labs · Co-founder & CTO

    A studio that builds and operates its own software companies.

    • HQ. The studio's operations console: revenue from each company, one shared lead database, and the controls for our agents.
    • Sales agents. Browser agents that find and qualify leads on Google Maps and in Facebook groups. They have collected 7,549 leads across Mexico, Canada, Colombia and Brazil.
    • Infrastructure. The studio's products run on servers we own and operate: Postgres, Redis and object storage, a Cloudflare tunnel in front, self-hosted CI runners, deploys that roll back on failure, and daily verified backups.
    • EventKit. Ticketing for event organizers in Latin America: paid tickets and RSVPs, Wallet passes, QR check-in, and an Android scanner for the door.
    • FanKit. Loyalty cards that live in Apple and Google Wallet.
    • Timbra Chat. An agent that issues Mexican tax invoices: it reads the receipt, then fills in the merchant's invoicing site.

  2. 2023 – now

    Turboship · Co-founder & CTO

    Shipping software for businesses in Mexico.

    • Turboship Carrier. A multi-carrier shipping platform: quotes, labels and tracking across 18 carriers, prepaid balances funded over SPEI, and CFDI e-invoicing. Each white-label reseller runs its own isolated instance.
    • From July 2025 to July 2026 the network processed about 1.6M shipments for 852 businesses through 9 resellers.
    • Turboship WMS. Inventory, point of sale and online stores for merchants, in one system.

  3. 2024 – now

    Terpa Solutions · Technical advisor · head of technology until 2026

    Payments for vending machines, micromarkets, parking and kiosks.

    • Built the platform that manages 1,300+ payment terminals across Mexico, with Openpay, Mercado Pago and CFDI integrations.
    • Led the team building the Android apps that run on the terminals.

  4. 2025

    Software engineer, tech lead · Caring (contract)

  5. 2021 – 2024

    Software engineer, tech lead · Able (contract)

  6. 2021

    Software engineer · PayPal (contract)

  7. 2014 – 2020

    Remote Software Development & Consulting for US companies

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I like owning the whole thing, from the first commit to keeping it running.

I write software with coding agents every day.

I build agents that operate: they find leads, talk to customers, issue invoices, suggest improvements and run real work in production.

I build lean infrastructure and purposeful architecture, not whatever is trending.

cat stack

  • TypeScript, Next.js, React, Tailwind
  • Postgres, Redis, BullMQ, Socket.IO
  • Vercel AI SDK, Claude, OpenAI, OpenRouter
  • Kotlin / Compose, React Native
  • Vercel, DigitalOcean, my own servers, GitHub Actions

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