Location: Santa Cruz, CA Remote: YesWilling to relocate: Remote Preferred. SF/Socal Hybrid okApplied AI / product builder (Full Stack). I’m strongest at turning messy ideas, workflows, datasets, and APIs into useful AI-assisted products and prototypes; especially where product judgment, user understanding, automation, and modern LLM/agent tooling matter.In a world where AI is become exponentially more intelligent in general, a recurring challenge has become harnessing that intelligence for specific, personalized real world applications, not just generic generalized intelligence. This is what I do in addition to and in conjunction with Product Development, Data Science, and Bot Building.I scope problems by optimizing for specific organizational or enterprise goals, and choose the tech stack that helps support the achievement of those goals in both the short and long term.I work with a lot of open source, personalized, persistent AI agent harnesses and platforms; avoiding the lock in of major AI labs and vendors, keeping data private, and allowing the same system to swap in different LLMs.Technologies and Tools: Claude Code, Hermes Agent Harness, Obsidian, Docker, Terminal (and many others)Résumé/CV: https://alexhorton.dev Email: horton.alexander@gmail.comWebsites: https://Bitcoinmachinelearning.com https://EnergyScout.org https://Propfi.Live (beta demo)