I’m Alexander Habiby. I failed out of computer science.
I was twenty. I was told I just didn’t have what it takes.
They were right academically. They were wrong professionally.
I’ve spent the last decade proving them wrong without fully believing it. This cohort is what I would have paid anything for at twenty-four, when a tech startup was billing me to clients as a “Heroku Technical Architect” and I was googling “what is Heroku” at 2am.
I shipped that project. And every one after.
What I’ve actually done.
Government enterprise architecture. Sixty-plus systems in production. NYC’s COVID rollout.
- CURRENTLY
Substantial AI work, while still advising governments and system integrators. In Massachusetts: eLIPSE, the Division of Occupational Licensure’s new licensing platform, and METRIK, the Department of Public Health’s platform serving the state’s 351 local health departments.
- ARCHITECTED · 60+
Live enterprise systems across state and federal governments and private enterprise. Many still in production, still serving constituents.
- AT MTX
Grew the Licensing & Grants vertical from $2M bookings (2019) to $30M (2021), winning statewide systems in six states against Accenture and Deloitte.
- AT SLALOM & MTX
Architects reported to me. I was responsible for best practices. What good architecture looked like across the firm, how new architects were trained, the standards we shipped against.
- NYC · COVID
Architected NYC’s COVID vaccine management system at the peak of the pandemic, when the city had to ship in weeks, not months. Plus the public schools’ testing and contact tracing rollout. Salesforce’s story.
- STATEWIDE
Enterprise architect on licensing platforms for the states of Minnesota (child-care licensing, 13 systems integrated), Wisconsin (professional licensing), and New Mexico (one of the first Salesforce Public Sector Solutions go-lives).
- EDUCATION · CERTS
B.A., Bard College. Five Salesforce certifications, including Public Sector Solutions Accredited Professional and Certified Data Architect. Trailhead profile.
What I’ve built on my own machine in the last eight months.
Built in evenings and weekends, on top of full-time architecture work. Not because I had to. Because I want to own my tools instead of renting them.
- 01 · PERSONAL MCP
A Supabase-backed vector store with five years of my journal, documents, emails, texts and my brain embedded, queryable from any AI client. The thing I use every day.
- 02 · HERMES
A local agent that orchestrates everything from finance categorization to Notion sync. Runs in the background. Sends me a daily digest at 7:30 AM.
- 03 · FINANCIAL AUTOMATION
Replaced Quicken, Rocket Money, YNAB. Files my taxes. Saves me about $200/month and got me an extra $30k in tax refund last year.
- 04 · PLUS
A GitHub Actions → Notion sync for my indie game project, a Notion-to-OpenBrain pipeline, a custom Claude Code harness, and a half-dozen smaller things on the shelf.
Why this cohort, why now.
The threshold dropped in the last year. The technical floor is dramatically lower than it was when I started.
Building this kind of system used to take a software engineer. It still takes patience and a willingness to debug, but the technical floor is dramatically lower than it was when I started.
I’ve been sending people pieces of this for free in 1:1 conversations for months. The cohort is the structured version of those conversations, multiplied by fifteen, with the build-along framing that lets people actually leave with their own systems.
Nine weeks is enough to build three real things. Two calls a week is enough to keep momentum without taking over your life. Fifteen people is small enough that nobody gets lost.
That’s the cohort.