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Alejandro Moreno

AI / Backend Engineer
Open-source work & products published as “Alex LaGuardia”

Summary

AI and backend engineer who designs, ships, and distributes production systems end-to-end, specializing in agent governance and MCP infrastructure: authorization enforced outside the model, tamper-evident attribution of which human directed an agent, and red-team harnesses that prove the enforcement holds. Strongest in Python/FastAPI and LLM systems (routing, RAG, MCP, agentic loops) plus the backend plumbing that keeps them alive, with open-source tools on PyPI and the VS Code Marketplace, a multi-tenant SaaS, and merged pull requests in codebases I did not write.

Skills

AI / LLM: Multi-LLM routing (Groq, Claude, Gemini), MCP (servers + clients), agentic tool loops, RAG, embeddings/semantic memory
Languages: Python (expert), Rust (advanced), TypeScript, SQL, Lua
Backend: FastAPI, async workers, daemon & queue architecture, SQLite, REST/SSE, OAuth2/JWT, Stripe webhooks
Frontend: Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, App Router
Infra / DevOps: PM2 (multi-service), Cloudflare (tunnels, Pages, CF-for-SaaS), Linux, SSH hardening, multi-tenant isolation
Integrations: Stripe, Groq, OANDA, Alpaca, Meta Graph API, Resend, Cloudflare API
AI Dev Tools: Claude Code (daily driver); ships most code through a self-built MCP tool layer

Selected Projects

Agent-Governance Suite: Warden · Crumb · Siege

Python, FastAPI, MCP, RBAC, OAuth / JWT, Sigstore

Vigil: Observability & Awareness Infrastructure for AI Agents

Python, FastAPI, MCP, SQLite, Stripe

Critik: AI Code Security Scanner

Python, Tree-sitter, Groq / Llama 3.3 70B
PyPI: critik · VS Code Marketplace · GitHub Action · critik.dev

Akatskii: Cognitive AI Layer

Python, FastAPI, Groq, Claude, Gemini, fastembed
routing extracted to PyPI: llm-route · github.com/AlexlaGuardia/Akatskii

Guardia Content: AI SaaS Platform

Python, FastAPI, Next.js, React, Stripe
Built end-to-end; public launch pending Meta platform approval

Open Source & Writing

Open source: merged PR into PrefectHQ/fastmcp (25.6k★, e2e test coverage for the CodeMode tool-call path), open resource-leak fixes in hatchet-dev/hatchet (YC), and a merged PR to awesome-mcp-servers · Distribution: 8 packages published to PyPI and a VS Code Marketplace extension · Writing: 8+ technical articles on building MCP servers & AI-agent infrastructure (Dev.to)

Also Shipped

Stampwerk: live AI freelancer SaaS (stampwerk.com) · guardia-mcp: 95+ tools, frame-filtered (50–90% fewer tokens), OAuth 2.1, behind 3 AI interfaces · MCP Server Suite: 262 tools across 4 PyPI servers · Supra: from-scratch 3D FPS engine in Rust (85K lines, 8 crates) · Scionbee: greenhouse WPS-compliance PWA (Next.js, Prisma) · Paradise: 4-agent multi-strategy trading system · mcpcat & llm-route: open-source dev tools (PyPI)