About
Electrical engineer turned electronic music producer — blending a technical past with a creative present.
Background
I’m Alex Garcia. I go by Artefex.
I’ve spent my career working with technology from the transistor level through the AI infrastructure layer — automotive silicon validation at TI, consulting for Toyota on their Engage platform, then senior AI engineering at Microsoft. These days I produce electronic music — which, if you’ve ever taken a signals class, is just manipulating oscillators with extra steps.
I’m bipolar and autistic. I wrote 81 songs in a year because that’s how I process things. Some people go to therapy. Some people go to church. I go to Ableton.
All music produced solo. No generative AI. Oscillators are oscillators whether you’re building chips or building drops.
Experience
Electrical Engineer
Texas Instruments
Led debugging initiatives and developed innovative testing workflows including a multiplexed SMU-DMM-oscilloscope relay matrix.
Consultant & App Developer
Toyota
Developed applications using C# (Xamarin Native), Java, Objective-C, React Native, and AWS Cloud Computing.
Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft — AI Group
Worked on healthcare integration projects including Connected Care, leveraging GPT-3, OCR, hallucination-prevention techniques, RAG, and advanced prompting strategies.
Founder · 2024–2026
RAIN
An alpha project exploring whether people connect more naturally with an AI that feels like a character rather than a generic tool. Built to test that idea. I learned an enormous amount and I’m grateful for everything it taught me.
Find me online
More places where I share work, writing, and music.