Icebreakers—: Africa, Teddy Roosevelt, Team Building, The Hoover Institution, 200° sauna, high heart rate activities daily, PBS, fallacious thought, probability theory, Park City, basketball, tennis, longevity, mental fortitude, pioneer ancestry and Icelandic roots, language learning, game theory, survivor, growing up in a Hispanic barrio, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Charlie Munger, & Nassim Taleb. I am an Engineer. I apply engineering principles of systems and algorithmic thinking to whatever work on—from human dynamics to software investing.My friends say I’m equal parts relentless and curious. I try to stay humble--allergic to elitism and revel in having friends from many cultures, stages, and walks of life. I believe that *everyone* has something to teach me.Principles:- Don't settle for the opportunities that come to you. (From my grandmother).- Press through 1,000 “nos” to get the “yes”- Figureitoutiveness - "make it great" - leave it better than you found it.-Never Arrived, Always BecomingPersonal:I am a 5x marathoner. I love venturing into the outdoors with friends and family and sports such as basketball, tennis, and backcountry & alpine skiing. Career Experiences:Alex’s career experiences include building software that millions use daily, software engineering, early-stage software entrepreneurship, founding a social venture in Mozambique that has impacted tens of thousands of women for the last 10 years, venture capital investing, and managing machine learning, engineering, product management, and design teams.Bio:Alex started his career living in Mozambique, Africa, where he co-founded the Regenesis Foundation. Since its founding in 2010, the foundation has helped tens of thousands of Mozambican women obtain education and vocational training.Alex attended Harvard’s MBA program. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Brigham Young University, where he graduated Tau Beta Pi and obtained the degree in just over 3 years, while founding and selling a Machine Learning software product.Alex is a Software Engineer and Product Leader who has built software that millions use daily. He was an early Software Engineer on the Amazon Echo & Alexa platform. He worked on Alexa’s “brain” — the AI/ML software that powers 100M+ Alexa-enabled devices. At Amazon he founded a team that has over 2,000 employees today. He has built APIs and artificial intelligence web services with millions of transactions per second.