About
From my roots as an electrical engineer to becoming a creative visionary and AI consultant — blending technical and artistic pursuits.
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. Now I produce electronic music — which, if you’ve ever taken a signals class, is just manipulating oscillators with extra steps — and I’m building RAIN, a platform that creates personalized AI employees for nonprofit fundraisers.
I’m bipolar and autistic. I wrote 77 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
Founder
RAIN
Building AI employees for nonprofit fundraisers — trained on organizational data to handle prospect research, grant discovery, and donor communications.
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.
Consultant & App Developer
Toyota
Developed applications using C# (Xamarin Native), Java, Objective-C, React Native, and AWS Cloud Computing.
Electrical Engineer
Texas Instruments
Led debugging initiatives and developed innovative testing workflows including a multiplexed SMU-DMM-oscilloscope relay matrix.
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