Alfred Madere

Alfred Madere

Alfred Madere

Engineering @ Casca - We're Hiring | Creator of PaperWatch

I'm a full-stack engineer focused on AI and scalable, data-intensive applications. I co-founded PaperWatch, building the AI-driven research platform from the ground up. At Psychlytics, I developed an MVP in eight months, deployed in Power 5 and Big 10 trials.

Experience

CascaForward Deployed Engineer

2025 — Now

2025 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

Designed and implemented features to support the requirements of top 25 banks

Cut CI build time in half

Making banking magical

Paper WatchEngineering lead, Co-Founder

2023 — Now

2023 — Now

Austin, Texas, United States

Designed and built a novel AI driven research platform, deployed at paperwatch.io.

Implemented web app in NextJs as well as an ingestion pipeline and agentic RAG api in python.

Defined feature set, priorities, and UX.

PsychlyticsFrontend Developer

2022 — 2023

EarbugCloud Engineer

2022 — 2023

2022 — 2023

Built a news-site content scraper and analyzer in NodeJS using puppeteer and AWS comprehend NLP.

Deployed on AWS lambda with postgresql + S3 for storage and integration with other system components.

Ivy Advantage LLCCEO

2020 — 2022

2020 — 2022

Austin, Texas, United States

Cofounder and CEO of Ivy Advantage LLC

Education

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo

Bachelor of Science - BS