CTO at Micr · Product & Platform Engineer
I’m Jose Alvarado. I connect product direction, design, and engineering—from your first website to the systems behind a growing platform.
A preview of my process: direction—find the problem worth solving; experience—make the useful path feel effortless; engineering—connect the systems underneath. One connected product.
Selected work
A few of the products I help shape, build, and keep moving. Each one brings a different problem into focus.
A social gaming platform for finding teammates, discovering communities, and moving from a game into a shared session.
A personal website builder for iPhone. Bring photos, words, music, and links into a page that feels like you.
An iPhone app that helps households match products to cited lead records, understand uncertainty, and find a useful next step.
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Read the case studyOperating range · 02
Products usually become expensive or fragile at the seams. I work across those seams so the decisions stay connected.
Positioning, customer problems, UX, information architecture, prioritization, and the decision about what is worth building.
Full-stack products, APIs, data, real-time systems, cloud infrastructure, observability, deployment, and recovery.
Security, privacy, performance, operating cost, monetization constraints, and the evidence required before making claims.
About · 03
I’m Jose Alvarado, CTO at Micr and a product and platform engineer based in the South Bay of Los Angeles.
My strongest work sits where product, engineering, and operations overlap. I move from positioning and interface design into application architecture, data, infrastructure, security, and the practical economics of running the product.
That range matters because products rarely fail inside one discipline. UX affects architecture. Architecture affects cost and reliability. Security affects trust. I keep those decisions connected and responsibility clear.
Working rhythm · 04
No oversized discovery theater. Start with evidence, make the tradeoffs explicit, and verify what ships.
Clarify the user, business outcome, constraints, and evidence that would change the decision.
Deliver the smallest complete system that can prove value without creating hidden operating debt.
Test the critical paths, recovery, cost, and user experience before treating the work as finished.
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