CTO across two commercial AI companies
I'm Alan Son, Co-founder & CTO at AMPD, CTO at CarBuddy AI, and founder of AlanOps. I work across AI discovery, customer conversations, and the production platforms that make both dependable.
Available for select CTO advisory and hands-on AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and platform-engineering contracts.
One customer journey
AMPD helps a business understand how customers discover it through AI. CarBuddy AI helps turn the conversations that follow into useful action. AlanOps is the product and platform discipline behind the work.
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 AIMake AI visibility measurable.
Turn conversations into outcomes.
Build and run the production system.
Selective consulting
AlanOps turns the operating experience from my CTO roles into a small number of advisory and delivery engagements. 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.
Senior contract ownership across AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, migrations, and the operating model that keeps them useful.
Have a PRD or prototype?
Start with a senior-led Build Readiness Sprint. Get the risky decisions resolved, sensible delivery options, and a clear path to software AlanOps can build, host, and operate.
Explore spec to softwareHow 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.
Two CTO seats
Patterns, trade-offs, and lessons from AI discovery, conversational automation, and the platforms underneath both.
AI has made code faster to produce, but dependable software still requires product judgement, verification and operational ownership.
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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?
Tell me what you are building, where it is stuck, and what a useful outcome would look like. I will reply personally.
