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ALEXANDER OSORIO MUNERA

Engineer. Educator. Entrepreneur. Builder.

About Me

Alexander Osorio Munera

From unloading coffee sacks in a small town in Risaralda, to policing the streets of Colombia, to cleaning floors at the University of Westminster — and graduating First Class Honours from that same building.

That journey shaped everything I do. From London to Colombia, I've built software products, published 11+ books, taught thousands of students, and launched businesses. I believe in the power of relentless curiosity, disciplined execution, and sharing knowledge freely.

Today I work at the intersection of technology, education, and entrepreneurship — building tools that solve real problems and teaching the next generation of builders.

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0s+ Students Taught
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0+ Tech Projects
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My Journey

From a coffee town in Risaralda to building across continents

~1998

Bulteador & Café Waiter — Belén de Umbría

First jobs as a teenager in a small coffee town in Risaralda, Colombia. Unloaded heavy sacks of coffee and plantain from jeeps at a café agency during weekends, and waited tables at a local café — all while studying secondary school.

~2000

Folk Dance Teacher

Turned a passion for traditional Colombian folk dance into teaching. Led classes and performed, building early skills in leadership, discipline, and cultural expression.

2001

Colombian National Police — Patrullero

Joined the Colombian National Police. Completed one year of training as Patrullero, followed by two years of service as a professional police officer — learning discipline, structure, and public service.

2004

Moved to London — Cleaner at Westminster

Emigrated to London from Colombia. Started working as a cleaner at the University of Westminster — the same building where, years later, he would graduate with First Class Honours.

2006

Westminster University — BSc Computer Science

Enrolled in Computer Science at the same university where I once cleaned floors. Graduated with First Class Honours.

2008

Freelance Web Developer

Started freelancing, building websites and web applications for small businesses in London.

2009

Telecom Engineer — WiMAX

Worked in telecommunications, earning WiMAX certification and gaining deep expertise in network infrastructure.

2011

MBA — University of Wales

Completed Master of Business Administration at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, blending tech with business strategy.

2013

Return to Colombia — Teaching & Entrepreneurship

Returned to Colombia to teach university courses and launch entrepreneurial ventures in education and technology.

2015

Published First Books

Began publishing career with books on business, cryptocurrency, and emotional intelligence. Now 11+ titles on Amazon.

2017

Founded Ciudad Bilingüe

Founded Ciudad Bilingüe in Pereira, Colombia — a bilingual academy built around the Active Speaking Method. Over the next nine years it would graduate 1,000+ students and become the anchor for an entire ecosystem of products (CRM, Talky, Axiom).

2018

IP Diploma — UPB

Earned Intellectual Property Diploma from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, adding legal expertise to the toolkit.

2020

Launched Talky & Axiom

Began building Talky — the AI-powered language learning app that now spans 9 languages, 148 curriculum books, and a custom ESP32 voice device — and Axiom, the human-in-the-loop AI assistant that runs the business from WhatsApp.

2022

GeoRef & La Lupa

Built GeoRef — a real-time field-operations map with role-based views — and La Lupa, an AI-powered civic intelligence platform that now holds 549 verified cases of Colombian public wrongdoing at lalupa.com.co.

2024

Google Analytics Certified

Added Google Analytics certification, strengthening data-driven decision making and digital strategy capabilities.

What I Build

End-to-end systems — designed, architected, and shipped. From AI engines to IoT devices.

Integrated Ecosystem
Ciudad Bilingüe CRM Talky Axiom AI
WhatsApp Meta Cloud API Claude AI Brain Intent + Reasoning Approval Gate Human-in-Loop Gmail Calendar CRM Invoices

Axiom

Lead Architect Live

Jarvis for a real education business — AI operations over WhatsApp

Axiom is the AI operations brain for a real education company, reached through a single WhatsApp chat. It reasons with Claude, then acts across Google Workspace, the CRM, Canva, and local systems — drafting emails, moving calendar events, pulling student data, generating invoice PDFs, creating visuals. Every sensitive action is gated behind human approval, so nothing fires without a conscious “yes.” It's been running on Firebase Cloud Functions 24/7 since early 2026, quietly removing hours of routine work from the business every week.

5+ Integrations
24/7 Uptime
HITL Approval Gate
PDF Auto Invoices
Director Hub Analytics Dashboard Students Enrollment + Groups Finance Payments + Payroll Operations Teachers + Tasks

CRM System

Full-Stack Dev Live

Operating system for a bilingual academy — 41 modules, 4 roles, GPS-validated attendance

The operational spine of Ciudad Bilingüe. 41 modules covering every corner of running a school: enrollment, scheduling, GPS-validated attendance (500m radius), multi-currency payments with a full audit trail, payroll across three institutions, director analytics, and real-time reconciliation. Role-based permissions change the entire UI per user — teachers see one world, salespeople another, the director sees everything. Same app, four experiences. Live in production today.

41 Modules
4 Roles
GPS Attendance
3 Institutions
News Feeds RSS Sources AI Analysis Claude Categorizer Publish Verified Cases GitHub Actions • 4x/day

La Lupa

Lead Architect Live

Turning scattered corruption reports into institutional memory for Colombia

La Lupa is a civic transparency platform that reads the news so citizens don't have to. Claude AI scans 7+ Colombian news sources four times a day, categorizes findings into nine types of public wrongdoing — corruption, abuse of power, contract fraud, misuse of public resources — deduplicates via semantic similarity, then routes them to an admin approval queue before they go public. The database now holds 549 verified cases and 19 deep-dive opinion articles documenting over $70B in exposed scandals. Live at lalupa.com.co.

549 Verified Cases
9 Categories
Daily Scans
$70B+ Exposed
Web App Next.js 16 Mobile React Native AI Sentiment OpenAI Analysis Database PostgreSQL

MindfulNews

Lead Architect Active

A mood dial for the news — slide from “only positive” to “raw reality”

MindfulNews puts one strange idea at the center: most people don't want to block the news, they want to choose how much darkness they consume. A single mood dial (0–100) filters in real time as you slide, backed by AI sentiment analysis, entity extraction, and keyword-level blocklists for people, topics, or outlets. Aggregates 25+ English and Spanish sources across four Latin American countries, with on-demand AI summaries in your language. Ships as a Next.js web app and a React Native mobile app that stay in sync.

25+ Sources
2 Platforms
0–100 Mood Dial
4 Countries
Z1 Z2 Z3 Z4 Interactive Map Firebase Real-time Sync Admin Leader Field

GeoRef

Full-Stack Dev Active

Turning a territory into a living, real-time map

GeoRef takes field operations and makes them visual. Leaders draw zones, assign teams, drop contacts on the map, and watch data sync live across admin, leader, and field-agent views — each role seeing only what they need. Automated geocoding turns addresses into pins; CSV export turns the map back into a business document.

Live Map
3 Roles
CSV Export
Driver Pereira Coffee Region AI Tutor Guided Conversations EN ↔ ES ☕ Coffee Culture ✈ Tourism ☎ Service Academically-Designed Curriculum

TaxiTutor

Lead Architect Live · 2026

English for taxi drivers in Colombia’s coffee region — so the first face of tourism speaks the traveler’s language

When a foreign traveler lands in Pereira to see Colombia’s coffee region, the first person they meet is almost always a taxi driver. TaxiTutor is an AI-guided English tutor built specifically for those drivers — an academically designed curriculum covering coffee culture, regional tourism, customer service, and the specific language of the driver’s trade (directions, fares, small talk, hotel pickups, airport runs). The app runs conversational sessions where the driver speaks, the AI responds, corrects, and gradually levels up the difficulty — turning dead time between trips into paid-off practice, and turning a ride from the airport into a genuinely bilingual welcome to the coffee region.

AI Guided Convo
3 Curriculum Tracks
EN↔ES Bilingual
Pereira Coffee Region
Website Next.js 14 + SEO Bili (AI) Claude-powered Live human takeover CRM Lead Pipeline ★ 4.7 · 125 Google reviews

Ciudad Bilingüe

Founder & Builder Live

A bilingual academy I founded in Pereira — the front door to the whole ecosystem

Ciudad Bilingüe is the real-world English academy I founded and still run from Pereira, Colombia. The website is built on Next.js 14 with SEO-optimized landing pages, blog articles, and “Bili” — a Claude-powered AI chatbot that answers questions about courses and lets staff take over the conversation in real time when a human touch is needed. This is the top of the funnel: visitors become leads in the CRM, students get provisioned into Talky, and Axiom handles their invoices. 9+ years running, 1,000+ graduates, 4.7 stars across 125 Google reviews.

9+ Years Operating
1K+ Graduates
4.7★ Google Reviews
SENA Gov. Backed
Leader 1 Leader 2 Leader N Registration Phone = invite code Firestore Admin Live Analytics CSV Export

Durguez VIP Access

Lead Designer & Builder Live · 2026 Campaign

A campaign platform where every community leader becomes their own invite code

Designed and built for Durguez Espinosa's 2026 run for the Colombian Cámara de Representantes — a campaign I supported across design, strategy, and engineering. The central idea is simple and distinctly grassroots: each campaign leader's phone number doubles as their personal invite code, so every supporter who registers is attributed back to a real person in a real neighborhood. A live admin dashboard shows who brought whom, segments by territory, and exports voter lists on demand. 5,000+ users passed through the platform in the lead-up to a March 3, 2026 virtual event.

5K+ Users
2026 Campaign
Live Admin Panel
CSV Export
design system biography timeline 12 achievements Julián Ospina Lawyer · Public Servant julianospina.com.co ● LIVE

Julián Ospina

Design & Build Live

Personal branding for a Colombian lawyer and public servant

A professional portfolio built for Julián Andrés Ospina Posada — a Colombian lawyer stepping into public life. Custom design system in navy and gold, a biographical timeline that tells the story of a career, 12 categorized achievements with filters, and a lightweight static blog engine for long-form writing. Clean, fast, and designed to be taken seriously by institutions and voters alike.

12 Achievements
Blog Static Engine
.co Custom Domain
Xiomara BOLÍVAR dental excellence Implants Ortho Smile Aesthetic ES · EN

Xiomara Bolívar

Design & Build Live

A luxury dental practice, reimagined in typography and light

A digital home for Dr. Xiomara Bolívar's dental practice — orthodontics, implants, smile design, aesthetics. I leaned into quiet luxury: a Cormorant Garamond display serif, warm gold-and-cream palette, radial gradients that feel like studio lighting, and full bilingual Spanish/English infrastructure. Designed to reassure before a single word is read. Live at xiomarabolivar.com.

ES/EN Bilingual
4 Service Areas
.com Custom Domain
$ 20 calculators Programmatic SEO 50 states · 50 cities 349 pages · kubomoney.com

KuboMoney

Co-Founder & Builder Live

Free financial calculators for everyone — no login, no fees, no tracking

KuboMoney was born from a simple frustration: every good financial calculator either charges, requires a sign-up, or sells your data. So we built the opposite. 20 purpose-built calculators — mortgage, compound interest, retirement, debt-to-income, auto loan, credit card payoff, home affordability, business startup cost, tax withholding, and more — all running entirely in the browser, with zero data storage. Wrapped around them is a programmatic SEO layer of 349 pages covering all 50 US states and 50 major cities with real salary, cost-of-living, and tax data, so people actually find the tool when they’re making a real financial decision. Co-founded with Vanessa Ocampo. Live at kubomoney.com.

20 Calculators
349 SEO Pages
50+50 States · Cities
$0 Free · Private
Spotlight · Deep Dive

Talky — a research-grade platform for Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Built end to end: 9 conversational languages, 8 Professional English tracks, CEFR-aligned pedagogy, a 25-band adaptive difficulty engine, a 3-layer speech evaluation cascade, an ambient IoT voice device, and a live 50-student classroom mode.

9 Languages
8 Prof. English Tracks
140+ Curriculum Books
75K+ Q&A Items
A1–C2 CEFR Range
50 Live Classroom
01

Pedagogy, grounded in CALL research

CEFR progression · 25 adaptive bands A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2 flow zone · 75% accuracy scaffolding · ZPD · comprehensible input · spaced exposure
  • CEFR A1→C2 curriculum, grammar-constrained at every level (Books 1–4 A2; 5–8 B1–B2; 9–10 B2+).
  • 25-band adaptive difficulty engine targeting the 75% accuracy flow zone — a computational operationalization of Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development.
  • Six exercise modalities (speak-match, listen-select, dictation, fill-blanks, sentence building, open conversation) rotate to prevent habituation and maintain comprehensible-input variety.
  • Emotion-aware coaching tracks motivation, confidence, and frustration, and switches tutor persona (encouraging / analytical / patient) accordingly.
02

A multi-surface learning system

Learner adaptive state Mobile App Cloud Brain GPT-4o · Azure · Whisper TutorPal IoT ESP32-S3 · ambient AR Kids Viro · characters Video Tutor Agora · live 1:1 Classroom · 50 students
  • React Native mobile app — 245 JS modules, 40+ screens, iOS + Android from a single codebase.
  • Cloud brain — OpenAI GPT-4o-mini for reasoning, Azure Neural TTS for 9-language voices, Whisper for server-side STT, Firebase Realtime DB for classroom coordination.
  • TutorPal IoT device — a Waveshare ESP32-S3 voice board with Xiaozhi firmware, enabling ambient, always-on language exposure away from the phone.
  • AR kids mode & live video — ViroReact AR characters for younger learners; Agora SDK video calls for one-to-one tutoring sessions.
03

Language for Specific Purposes — 8 Professional English tracks

Each track is a self-contained 40-unit B1–B2 module, built around domain-specific vocabulary, scenario-based practice, and the genuine registers a professional uses at work. Tracks run in parallel with the general A1–C2 curriculum, so a learner can hold Book 5 (general A2) alongside Book 901 (Business B1).

Live
💼

Business English

Meetings · Clients · Presentations · Executive strategy

B1 → B2 · 40 units
Live
🎯

Interview Prep

STAR answers · Salary negotiation · Curveballs

B1 → B2 · 40 units
Coming Soon

Tourism

Hospitality · Guest services · Cultural code-switching

B1 → B2 · 40 units
Coming Soon
🛫

Aviation

Crew comms · Safety procedures · Regulatory English

B2+ · 40 units
Coming Soon

Legal

Contracts · Deposition prep · Legal terminology

B2+ · 40 units
Coming Soon

Medical

Clinical comms · Patient interactions · Abbreviations

B2+ · 40 units
Coming Soon
🛠

Engineering

Technical docs · Standards · Project English

B1 → B2 · 40 units
Coming Soon
🩺

Nursing

Patient care · Team handoff · Documentation

B1 → B2 · 40 units
04

Where Talky meets research

Talky is a live testbed for applied-linguistics and CALL questions. Because every interaction is logged against a CEFR-aligned taxonomy and an explicit difficulty band, the platform can host controlled interventions at real scale.

Q1

Adaptive difficulty vs. fixed curriculum

The 25-band engine already targets a 75% flow-zone. Randomized-assignment studies could measure whether ZPD-targeted sequencing outperforms a fixed A1→C2 path on retention and CEFR checkpoint pass rates.

Q2

Pedagogically-aligned speech evaluation

Talky’s 3-layer cascade (exact match → local grammar + keyword analysis → AI judge) composites keywords (50%), similarity (30%), length (10%), and grammar (10%), and hard-caps meaning errors. Research question: does this rubric-aligned score correlate better with teacher judgments than acoustic STT confidence?

Q3

Ambient IoT exposure & incidental acquisition

TutorPal enables asynchronous, device-mediated language exposure at home. This is novel territory for ubiquitous CALL: does short-burst ambient exposure between app sessions meaningfully boost retention of B1 vocabulary?

Q4

Emotion analytics & persistence

Emotional-state signals (motivation, confidence, frustration) are already captured and shape coaching persona. A study could test whether emotion-adaptive coaching raises weekly session counts over a 12-week window, and whether the effect is stronger in Professional English tracks.

Q5

Multilingual contrastive scaffolding

Parallel EN / FR / ES curricula make L1-transfer effects observable at scale. Where does positive transfer accelerate progression, and where does interference slow it? A Polylang / Talky partnership could produce publishable answers.

Q6

Equitable classroom voice

Talky’s turn-based classroom gives all 50 students speaking time, not only those who raise a hand. A natural experiment: compare L2 output volume and accuracy gains against traditional call-on-hand classrooms.

Published Books

11+ titles on Amazon covering business, crypto, emotional intelligence, and academia

Education & Certifications

🎓

BSc Computer Science (First Class Honours)

University of Westminster, London

2006 — 2009
🎓

MBA — Master of Business Administration

University of Wales Trinity Saint David

2011 — 2012
📜

Intellectual Property Diploma

Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB)

2018
📡

WiMAX Certification

WiMAX Forum

2009
📊

Google Analytics Certification

Google

2024

Skills & Tech Stack

Programming Languages

JavaScript Python C# Java TypeScript PHP SQL HTML/CSS

Frameworks & Libraries

React Node.js Django Laravel .NET Express Flask React Native

AI / ML

TensorFlow Scikit-learn NLP OpenAI API Pandas

Data & Databases

PostgreSQL MongoDB MySQL Firebase Elasticsearch Redis

Maps & GIS

Leaflet Google Maps API GeoJSON PostGIS

Telecom

WiMAX Network Architecture RF Engineering

Teaching & Education

Curriculum Design EdTech LMS Platforms Academic Research

Business

Strategic Planning Digital Marketing Product Management Google Analytics

Human Languages

English (Fluent) Spanish (Native)

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