# Alex Cavazos (Alejandro Cavazos)

> Technical co-founder in Monterrey, Mexico. I design, build and run software products end to end, including the AI agents that handle parts of the work.

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.

## Work

### Octagon Labs (https://octagonlabs.ai) — Co-founder & CTO (2025 – now)
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 (https://eventkit.octagonlabs.ai): Ticketing for event organizers in Latin America: paid tickets and RSVPs, Wallet passes, QR check-in, and an Android scanner for the door.
- FanKit (https://fankit.io): Loyalty cards that live in Apple and Google Wallet.
- Timbra Chat (https://timbrachat.ai): An agent that issues Mexican tax invoices: it reads the receipt, then fills in the merchant's invoicing site.

### Turboship (https://turboship.mx) — Co-founder & CTO (2023 – now)
Shipping software for businesses in Mexico.
- Turboship Carrier (https://turboship.mx/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 (https://turboship.mx/wms/): Inventory, point of sale and online stores for merchants, in one system.

### Terpa Solutions (https://terpasolutions.com) — Technical advisor · head of technology until 2026 (2024 – now)
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.

### Before that
- Software engineer, tech lead, Caring (contract) (2025)
- Software engineer, tech lead, Able (contract) (2021 – 2024)
- Software engineer, PayPal (contract) (2021)
- Remote Software Development & Consulting for US companies (2014 – 2020)

## Notes
- 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.

## 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

## Links
- CV: https://alexcavazos.com/cv
- CV PDF: https://alexcavazos.com/alejandro-cavazos-cv.pdf
- Email: me@alexcavazos.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/alexkvazos
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-cavazos-76a488b9
- X: https://x.com/alexkvazos_