alex nodeland

math → audio dsp → distributed systems → ai

i build ai systems, mostly the infrastructure: agent orchestration, evaluation loops, and the data model everything else depends on. currently senior ai engineer at perch insights.

before that i co-founded archanan in singapore and ran it as ceo for four years. we built cloud emulators of supercomputers so people could develop at scale without waiting for time on the real machine. i also led engineering at musiio, a music-ml company that soundcloud later acquired. before any of that i worked on wavelet bases for audio compression at stony brook, and wrote firmware for guitar pedals.

on the weekends, i maintain the fugue and quiver ecosystems, for probabilistic programming and audio synthesis in rust. the backgrounds on this site are simulations running in your browser, not video. the landscape icon in the corner opens their controls.

i also take on a few consulting engagements a year.

what i work on

ai systems
agent orchestration, structured context, constrained generation, observability and auditability
infrastructure
aws, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, and ci/cd
data engineering
pipelines, semantic models, and data lineage
evaluation & observability
eval sets, feedback loops, and monitoring for regressions
technical strategy
architecture review, build-vs-buy, and roadmap planning
creative technology
audio dsp, synthesis, and generative visuals