AI product & platform CTO
I'm Alan Son—Co-founder & CTO at AMPD, CTO at CarBuddy AI, and the founder of AlanOps. I turn ambitious ideas into secure, scalable products that work in production.
Available for select AI product, fractional CTO, and platform-engineering engagements.
Venture portfolio
Commercial AI products are the strongest proof of how I work: product thinking, technical strategy, and reliable execution in one place.
AMPD gives marketing teams visibility across the emerging AI discovery journey, turning citations and visibility into actionable intelligence.
Visit AMPDCarBuddy AI applies conversational AI to real dealership workflows—connecting customer communication, service operations, and sales opportunities.
Visit CarBuddy AISelective consulting
AlanOps is how I take on a small number of high-leverage engagements alongside my CTO roles. You work directly with me; when the scope needs more capacity, I bring in trusted specialists.
Tell me what you're buildingShape the product, architecture, data, and delivery plan needed to move from promising prototype to dependable commercial product.
Technical direction, team design, due diligence, and delivery leadership for founders who need experienced CTO judgment without a premature full-time hire.
Cloud platforms, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability, migrations, and the operating model that keeps them useful.
How I work
I work across the full decision chain, so strategy survives contact with delivery.
Separate the important problem from the loudest symptom, then make the trade-offs visible.
Align product, architecture, risk, and commercial reality before complexity becomes expensive.
Build, test, measure, document, and leave the team with a system they can confidently own.
Field notes
Sometimes the universe decides that one production incident isn’t enough. It needs to stack them like Russian dolls, each one revealing another surprise when…
Read articleIn DevOps, the big outages rarely come from big failures. They come from the tiny things—small enough to slip past everyone’s radar, big enough…
Read article10 security fixes taking 1-2 hours each that eliminate 80% of attack vectors. No security team required.
Read articleAbout Alan
My career has moved between software, infrastructure, engineering leadership, and now commercial AI products. The common thread is simple: take something ambitious, remove the avoidable complexity, and make it reliable enough to matter.
Today, I split my time between building AMPD, leading technology at CarBuddy AI, and helping a select group of founders and teams through AlanOps.
Have a difficult product or platform problem?
If there is a strong fit, I can advise, lead, or assemble the right delivery team. If there isn't, I'll tell you plainly.
