Alan Garcia

I'm an engineering leader based in Austin, Texas. I run Growth & Intelligence Platforms at Sephora, where I manage a group of senior engineers and data scientists working across retail media, creator storefronts, first-party data, and business AI automation.

Most of my career has run through distributed systems and the data platforms underneath them, first as a hands-on engineer and architect, later as the person accountable for the teams and the outcomes. I care about the parts of software that decide whether a system can keep changing: clean boundaries, domain-driven design, and the SOLID principles that keep those boundaries honest.

Squeaky Clean grew out of that interest. It's an open-source framework for generating software with AI agents held inside strict architectural constraints, so the output stays clean, testable, and cheap to run. I write here about that work and the thinking behind it.