Alex Casella
Co-Founder, Head of Engineering @ Thoughtly
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Alex is the Head of Engineering at Thoughtly, a voice AI platform that helps businesses use and deploy human-like AI agents. Alex manages all engineering teams across Application Development, Conversational AI, and Platform Infrastructure. Before Thoughtly, Alex was co-founder and CTO of nudgem, an AI powered retail platform that gives retailers custom storefronts. These storefronts are optimized for mobile browsing and shopping, increasing conversions rates by 2X and AOV by 34%. Prior to nudgem, Alex was an Engineering Manager at Bluecore, a late stage unicorn startup that uses AI to power retail marketing orchestration and automation. He managed the Campaign Orchestrations team. Over 800 retailers including Nike, Sephora, and NoBull used Bluecore's campaign management tools to send billions of emails and SMS messages. Prior to Bluecore, Alex was a Lead Engineer at IBM Watson, and owned products built for large healthcare payers, providers, insurance companies, clearing houses, banks, and government agencies. Alex holds multiple publications and patents on blockchain, data sharing, and agentic AI. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=gTetcMoAAAAJ&hl=en
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Experience (10 roles)
Full-time · 1 yr
Current2 roles · Aug 2024 - Present
Co-Founder, Head of Engineering
CurrentHead of Engineering
CurrentLead engineering and product teams across application development, conversational AI, ML Ops, and platform infrastructure.
Podcast Host - Driving Forces of Tomorrow
Spotify for Podcasters · Part-time
Live on Spotify. Interviews with experts, operators, entrepreneurs, and investors across businesses/industries that leverage AI. DM for speaking opportunities. Will resume in Q2 2025.
Co-Founder, CTO
AI powered onsite experiences, optimized for mobile shopping. 2x conversation rates + increase AOV by 34% for retailers. Privately acquired in July 2024.
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Education (1)
Boston University
Activities and societies: Air Force ROTC, Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity
Skills (21)
Languages (2)▼
Volunteer Experience (3)▼
Volunteer
Greater Boston Food Bank
Jan 2013 - Jan 2016 · 3 yrs
Volunteer
Boston Animal Shelter
Jan 2013 - Jan 2016 · 3 yrs
Mentor, Volunteer
NelPals program, Cambridge Public Schools
Jan 2016 - Jan 2019 · 3 yrs
Honors & Awards (9)▼
Armed Forces Communications and Electronic Association Award
Issued by ROTC · Apr 2015
Presented by General Robin Rand for excellence in cyber technologies
American Legion Silver Medal for Excellence in Leadership
Issued by American Legion / ROTC · May 2014
Associated with Boston University Awarded for outstanding military leadership, character and discipline. Awarded to top 25% of class.
Manager's Choice Award - Putting Clients First
Issued by IBM Watson · Jan 2017
Associated with IBM Took ownership/lead and successfully completed a large client project used in leadership presentations to IBM executive management
Winner at FINRA Sponsored MIT Fin-Tech Hackathon
Issued by FINRA & MIT Sloan Business School · Nov 2019
Finalist & Award Winner at MIT Breaking Tech Fin-Tech Hackathon (https://sloangroups.mit.edu/fintech/rsvp_boot?id=610529 ) Hackathon Project: FastTrack - Gamified Brokerage Onboarding Application
IBM Eminence and Excellence Award
Issued by IBM Watson Health · Jan 2018
Associated with IBM
Double Prize Winner at the MIT XR Hackathon
Issued by MIT · Jan 2020
Winner of two awards - 'Everyday XR' & 'Best Application of Data Visualization' - at the MIT Reality Hack AR/VR hackathon Hackathon Project: Vsibl - a Spatial, Social Networking Platform. For more info please use the following links: Github Repo: https://github.com/MIT-Reality-Hack-2020/VSiBL Devpost: https://devpost.com/software/vsibl Overview: VSiBL makes it possible for people in the same physical space to discover and connect with one another by using AR to reveal contextual information that is anchored to the users’ personal devices. Using a multi-user spatial mesh network to establish a shared reference frame, VSiBL users join an AR session overlaying their current environment. In the session, participants can visually identify each other’s location as well as whatever information they have chosen to express about themselves.
Manager's Choice Award
Issued by IBM · Jan 2019
Voted by teammates
Manager's Choice Award - Quick Learning and Dedication
Issued by IBM Watson · Jan 2016
Associated with IBM For demonstrating IBM values, showing personal interest in project, and quick learning of Blockchain technology
Evaluated for leadership and ranked Top 3rd of class at Field Training
Issued by ROTC · Jun 2014
4 week long leadership evaluation and training by the US Air Force
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