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    John Cole

    John Cole

    Forward deployed AI engineer and 2x technical founder. I build production LLM, agent, and robotics systems, then get customers using them. DC-based, ex-MITRE.

    Full-Stack Engineer Arlington New York University '20
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    FedTech
    FedTech
    Partner
    Alpha OSINT
    Alpha OSINT
    Founder and Engineer 2025 - Present (over 1 year)
    Built and operate 100+ production data APIs in Python, each shipped as an MCP server for Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT: 19,000 users, >99% run success. 2nd place worldwide... more in Apify's $1M Challenge (Feb 2026). Built the enablement layer that gets engineers and AI agents productive fast: about 90 example repos, 70 agent skills, and a nightly LLM job that keeps docs in sync with the code.
    MITRE
    MITRE
    Spinouts 2024 - 2026 (about 2 years)
    AuxiliumIQ
    AuxiliumIQ
    Co-Founder and CTO 2024 - 2025 (about 1 year)
    Sole CTO of an AI workflow platform for credit decisions in private debt markets, with a major private credit lender as a customer. Built pipelines that ingest deal emails... more and attachments, extract facility-level data with LLMs on Azure OpenAI, and write structured records to PostgreSQL. Fine-tuned extraction models and scored each iteration against SME-reviewed labels. Worked directly with the lender's experts to turn credit workflows into schemas and model tasks.
    Dexter Industries
    Dexter Industries
    Technical Founder 2009 - 2020 (about 11 years)
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    Dexter Industries, AuxiliumIQ, MITRE, Alpha OSINT, FedTech
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    About
    Achievements

    2nd place worldwide, Apify $1M Challenge (Feb 2026), judged on real users, quality, technical excellence, and usefulness.
    Founder, Alpha OSINT (alphaosint.com): 100+ production data APIs and MCP servers, 19,000 users, >99% run success; 90 example repos and 70 agent skills that get engineers and AI agents productive fast.
    Sole CTO, AuxiliumIQ: LLM extraction pipelines for a private credit lender, fine-tuned and scored against SME-reviewed labels.
    Founded Dexter Industries (robotics, acquired 2019); Google built its Cloud Derby ML program on our robot; ran hands-on workshops with Google Cloud in the U.S. and London.
    MITRE: CHIPS Act / $11B NSTC frameworks. Direct-hire State/USAID in Baghdad and Kabul alongside the military. Previously held TS.
    Taped out two chip designs (Tiny Tapeout). Python 14 yrs; C/C++ firmware and machine vision.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Machine Learning Algorithms, Deep Learning, Artificial Neural Networks Software Development Python Robotics Generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) C++
    Locations
    Washington DC Reston
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