Alex D'Alessandro — Sr. AI Engineer

About

Mission-critical software meets AI innovation

Concept to production — solo or at scale.

Alexander is a full-stack software engineer with a background in defense systems at Boeing, where he held a Secret Clearance building mission-critical software for the C2BMC Missile Defense National Team. He specializes in architecting complex platforms end-to-end, from background screening and identity resolution systems with biometric verification and automated threat-level scoring, to AI-powered legal research engines with intelligent search across millions of documents.

With experience across the full stack and deep expertise in AI/ML, Alexander has the technical depth to take a product from concept to production entirely on his own. He brings enterprise rigor from defense systems and startup speed from founding his own ventures.

AISymmetric — Sr. AI Engineer

Career

Professional experience

BRAP (Best Risk Assessment Platform) Jun 2025 — Present

Lead Software Engineer & Sole Developer

Architecting and building the entire Background Screening & Identity Resolution platform
Built end-to-end data pipelines aggregating criminal records, social media, and public-record identity data for comprehensive subject profiles
Implemented document ID extraction, camera-based liveness checks, and facial comparison for composite identity confidence scoring
Architected using NestJS/TypeScript with CQRS pattern, Redis/BullMQ job queues, React frontend, and PostgreSQL
Automated all AWS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform for reproducible deployments

Boeing Jul 2023 — May 2025

Software Engineer — C2BMC Missile Defense National Team (Secret Clearance)

Drove delivery and continuous improvement of the C2BMC Central tool using Agile methodologies
Proposed and prototyped a code generation solution using Xtext to convert business rules into Java-based data mapper classes
Developed custom web-based resource management tools with XAMPP, SQL, PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
Built SpringBoot services and wrote JUnit/Cucumber tests for inter-sensor message handling and data integrity

Vastwill LLC Mar 2022 — Present

Co-Founder & CTO

Engineered Citelaw.org — a full-stack AI-powered legal research platform with social features, document management, and automated analysis
Built a multi-faceted RAG search pipeline with full-text search enabling automated legal research across millions of documents
Trained multi-class AI models on 1M+ legal documents using TensorFlow on GPU-enabled AWS EC2
Developing a fully decentralized play-to-earn application on ICP Blockchain with multi-canister architecture

Oracle Jan 2022 — Dec 2022

Blockchain Intern

Designed decentralized identity flows using Verifiable Credentials and DIDs; deployed chaincode to Oracle's blockchain
Created OpenSSL-based key generation scripts for digital wallets; presented DID implementation to Oracle leadership

Skills & Technologies

Technical expertise

☁ Languages

TypeScript JavaScript Java Python C/C++ SQL Solidity

❖ Backend & Data

NestJS Node.js Express.js SpringBoot PostgreSQL MongoDB TensorFlow

⚙ Frontend & Tools

React Redux Vue Firebase Git Docker

⚖ Infrastructure & AI

AWS Terraform CI/CD Claude Code CQRS Architecture Blockchain/DeFi

Certifications

Professional credentials

⚡

ConsenSys Certified Ethereum Developer

December 2021

Education

Academic foundation

Lehigh University

Computer Science and Business Honors Program (Double Major)

Graduated May 2023

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