# Alex Spezowka — Work Profile

Generalist Technologist · Hacker in Residence

Last updated: 2026-07-16

## Professional Summary

I build the thing, sell the thing, and keep the thing running. Half hacker, half glad-hander, I work where the client relationship and the system behind it meet. Give me the function that does not exist yet and I will scope it, build it, and run it.

Currently Technical Sales Lead at Jenni AI and Principal Consultant at Lagomorph Labs. Available for fractional, contract, and hacker-in-residence engagements; working remotely from Korea across time zones.

## Core Philosophy

Hyper-functionalist approach: build systems that outlast tenure, scale beyond current needs, and can be maintained by future teams. Every architecture decision prioritizes resilience, observability, and developer experience.

Design philosophy: https://lagomor.ph/info/design/

## Contact and Links

- Email: alex@lagomor.ph
- Location: Korea · Remote
- Website: https://lagomor.ph
- GitHub: https://github.com/chilledtonic
- Sourcehut: https://sr.ht/~tonic/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aspezowka/
- PGP: D9FA 1C2A B497 9505 4A2B 0EFA 048F A29E 53CB ED4E
- PGP key: https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/D9FA1C2AB49795054A2B0EFA048FA29E53CBED4E

## Experience

### Jenni AI

Website: https://jenni.ai
Dates: August 2025 – Present
Role: Sales Technical Lead & Solutions Architect · Contractor

- AI academic writing platform serving students, researchers, and institutions.
- Built Jenni's B2B sales function from zero and run it solo: prospecting, enterprise demos, contracts, onboarding, and account ownership.
- Carried the company from no B2B motion to signed institutional accounts, as a team of one.
- Project ALICE: designed and shipped an agent that negotiates and closes small deals end-to-end, including qualification, pricing, and terms; only edge cases escalate.

### Lagomorph Labs

Website: https://lagomor.ph
Dates: September 2024 – Present
Role: Director & Principal Consultant

- Independent technology consultancy for AI startups and established organizations.
- Lead engagements from brief through architecture, deployment, and operation.
- Project Briarpatch: built and operate a semi-autonomous marketing system for a sovereign government client—a country's outsourced marketing department, run solo.
- Built Owsla, an AI learning-management product in private beta with approximately 200 users.
- Built Axiom, open-source logic proof software for universities; acquired in 2024.

### PanGlobal Training Systems

Website: https://pgfocus.panglobal.org
Dates: July 2020 – September 2024
Role: DevOps Specialist

- Power Engineering training company serving thousands of students.
- Owned cloud infrastructure and production operations across its products.
- Introduced code review, documentation, and CI/CD standards; enabled multiple daily zero-downtime deploys and cut developer onboarding from weeks to days.
- PGFocus: the foremost practice-exam solution for Power Engineers, serving tens of thousands of monthly users across North America.
- Built and operated PGFocus end-to-end, including schema design, interactive exam simulation, and automated testing.

### Black Magic Consulting

Dates: 2015 – June 2020
Role: Full-Stack Developer & Technology Consultant

- Independent consulting practice for small-business and nonprofit clients.
- Delivered systems across media archives, streaming, e-commerce, and point-of-sale.
- CJSW Radio Society (https://cjsw.com): transformed a legacy PHP monolith serving Calgary's largest vinyl library into containerized microservices with a unified streaming and e-commerce frontend.
- Cut CJSW deployments from more than four hours to five-minute rolling updates and maintained 100% uptime at peak events.
- Built RecordLand's web-based POS with real-time inventory, making transactions 300% faster.
- Automated Music Calgary's membership pipeline end-to-end, reducing manual process by 90%.

## Core Skills

### Client and Commercial

- Technical discovery and solution architecture
- Enterprise demonstrations and proposals
- Contract negotiation and account ownership

### Leadership

- Technical direction for teams of 2–10 engineers
- Trusted to run whole functions solo: scoped, built, and operated
- Translates fluently between engineers, executives, and clients

### Engineering

- Agent systems
- LLM integration
- TypeScript
- Go
- Node.js
- React
- Vue.js
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Docker
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- GCP
- AWS
- Cloudflare Workers
- Grafana and Prometheus

## Speaking

- EdConnect 2026, Quezon City, Philippines: featured guest, “EP2: AI Writing & EdTech Trends.”
- Soundoff Summit 2024, Calgary, Alberta: “Automating Your Label: simple tools for productivity.”
- NCRAC 2023, Calgary, Alberta: “No Code Radio: low-code tools for non-profits.”

## Writing

- Jenni Research 2026: author, “Beyond Detection: A Framework for Ethical AI Integration in Academic Research.”
- Scientia 2026: featured in “Responsible Research Writing in the Age of AI: From Detection to Transparency.”

## Education and Certifications

- WSET Level 2 Award in Wines, Wine & Spirit Education Trust, 2021
- Fine Vintage Spirits Level 1
- California Capstone Level 2
- CADD Fundamentals Certificate, SAIT, 2023
- Information Systems Security, Camosun College, 2017–2018