Alexander Wurts

Alexander Wurts

Head of Engineering at Coworker.ai. Private pilot.

About

I'm a software engineer who likes building products that make a real impact. I studied Computer Science and Data Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and I've worked across the stack: deep learning models, mobile apps, and scalable backend systems.

Today I lead engineering at Coworker.ai, where I still write code. Before that I led mobile development at The Routing Company, taking transit apps from zero to 100,000+ trips.

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Experience

  1. Coworker.ai

    Head of Engineering Jun 2026 - Present · Atlanta, GA

    • Lead AI reskilling initiative to train our engineers to be the best AI talent in the world
    • Architected and implemented full AI harnesses, complex knowledge graphs, and generic model routing

    Engineering Manager Jul 2025 - Jun 2026 · Atlanta, GA

    • Grew the engineering team from 2 to 10 engineers while keeping a high-performance culture.
    • Wear both hats, writing code and managing people, because modern engineering demands both.

    Founding Software Engineer Jul 2022 - Jul 2025 · Boston, MA

    • First employee. Helped build the company from zero to a $13M seed round.

    AI/ML · Full Stack · Agents/Tooling · Applied LLM · Go

  2. The Routing Company (formerly Routable AI)

    Apps Tech Lead Mar 2020 - Jul 2022 · Boston, MA

    • Founding team member. Started and led a team of 6 engineers building the driver and rider apps from scratch.
    • Scaled the apps to 1k daily users and 100,000+ trips.
    • Worked in a fast-paced sprint team across the entire stack.
    • Designed and built significant parts of the backend, connecting it to the dashboard and mobile apps.

    Kubernetes · Docker · Go · Flutter · React

  3. MIT Lincoln Laboratory & WPI

    Senior Thesis Intern Aug 2019 - Oct 2019 · Lexington, MA

    • Developed a deep learning solution to segment and quantify tau proteins in brain scans for Alzheimer's research.
    • Built on the SegNet convolutional neural network architecture.
    • Wrote parallelized code on the MIT supercomputer to process 10 billion pixel brain scans in under 30 minutes.

    Python · PyTorch · CNNs · Slurm

  4. MIT Lincoln Laboratory

    Deep Learning Intern May 2019 - Aug 2019 · Lexington, MA

    • Implemented state-of-the-art deep neural networks for person re-identification in camera surveillance systems.
    • Built an image labeling application that cut dataset labeling time by 5x.
    • The final model halved classification time compared with the non-neural-network approach.

    Python · PyTorch · Pandas · Sklearn

  5. Olympus

    Software Engineer Intern Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 · Waltham, MA

    • Designed and developed a website to visualize metrics produced by company products.
    • Implemented a notification system for preventative maintenance alerts.
    • Created a REST API backend for portable cross-platform solutions.

    React · Node · MongoDB · Azure

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