# Alfred Madere

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

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alfredmadere

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. I also scaled Ivy Advantage Tutoring to $80K annual revenue in under a year by engineering automation for scheduling and client management.

## Work Experience
### Forward Deployed Engineer @ Casca
Jan 2025 – Present | 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

### Engineering lead, Co-Founder @ Paper Watch
Jan 2023 – Present | 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.

### Frontend Developer @ Psychlytics
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Cloud Engineer @ Earbug
Jan 2022 – Jan 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.

### CEO @ Ivy Advantage LLC
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas, United States
Cofounder and CEO of Ivy Advantage LLC

### Jazz Saxophone Music Educator @ Independent contracter
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | Austin, Texas Area
Private and group jazz saxophone instruction

### Product Design Intern @ AutoAuto AI
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alfred-madere

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Last updated: 2026-04-13