Summary
Alexander Bricken is an applied AI product engineer and angel investor based in the NYC area, with seven years of experience building customer-facing ML and LLM-powered products. Currently on Anthropic’s Applied AI Product Engineering team, he combines product research with hands-on engineering to deploy safe, practical language-model solutions for enterprise customers. His background includes forward-deployed roles at Palantir leading deployments in financial services and insurance, plus earlier data science and BI work at Amazon and startups, giving him a rare blend of strategy, ops, and code. An active early-stage backer of several startups, he also tinkers publicly in “LLM land” and bridges research thinking with commercial product delivery. Notably, he pairs technical depth—shipping ETL pipelines, interactive Next.js apps, and ML prototypes—with an emphasis on user learning and the journey of product discovery.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Minerva University
Secondary School, Secondary School at Eton College
St Paul's School
Summer Student, Summer Student at Georgetown University