Alexander Gouyet

Cross-disciplinary builder passionate about the intersection of AI and business | Winner of Antler VC Openclaw Hackathon

Austin, Texas, United States

About

My introduction to engineering began in 2016 when I flew my first quadcopter. The mesmerizing propellers spinning in front of my wide eyes activated a dormant part of my mind that, to this day, is obsessed with building. I quickly graduated to building my own drone, and soon discovered the bliss that comes from soldering speed controllers and 3D-printing custom brackets at 2 AM. In university, that obsession pulled me into AERO McGill, where I competed as one of five flight crew members at the Canadian national UAS competition. In our second year, the team took 2nd place and won the "Most Professional" award. I helped us land a front-page feature in the Montreal Gazette, which boosted team applications by 400%. Since graduating, I've worked across sales, product, and engineering. At Refraction AI, an autonomous delivery robot company operating in downtown Austin, I built a Python and Mapbox tool that combined Yelp API enrichment with isochrone routing to surface 200+ qualified commercial partners for the REV-1 delivery fleet. At Salesforce, I sold Tableau into the French-Canadian public sector as the only French-speaking BDR on the team. I've also ran my own breathwork business for two years, delivering workshops for companies like Google, Yelp, and Mindbody, plus 100+ events for the Austin public. That stretch taught me how to build a brand from zero, close enterprise contracts, and sell a cutting-edge product (most of my prospects had never even heard of breathwork before). In my current chapter, I'm helping lead the sales team at Swift Fit Events. In addition to maintaining a book of business with Fortune 500 clients, I've shipped Claude Code plugins and custom proposal-building tools that speed up internal workflows and improve the customer buying experience. Pipeline Lobster, the lead-to-proposal automation I built in 6 hours, won the Antler VC / Moltathon ATX 2026 Hackathon. FAA Part 107 certified. US / French dual citizen. English, French, Spanish. Portfolio: alexandergouyet.com

Experience

  • Challenger at Gauntlet AI
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    10-week AI engineering fellowship in Austin, TX Role: Design + ship production-ready AI agents for real enterprise domains. Translate ambiguous requirements → reliable production systems. Focus: system-level thinking, evaluation, reliability. Stack: LangChain, Claude, modern AI tooling. Pace: 80–100 hrs/week. Multiple real client projects under pro constraints.

  • Senior Business Development Specialist at Swift Fit Events
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

    • Built Pipeline Lobster: AI lead-to-proposal automation. Won the Sales Track at the Antler VC Openclaw Hackathon. • Designed and built end-to-end sales infrastructure from scratch: CRM setup, outreach sequences, proposal workflow, and event operations. • Developed a production Claude Code plugin integrating HubSpot, Notion, Asana, Slack, and Gmail across the full sales cycle. Used daily by the full team. • Sourced and closed corporate wellness activations for 30+ clients including Morgan Stanley, Google, Prudential, Experian, PayPal, and CVS.

  • Self Directed AI Learning Program at Personal Project
    Sep 2024 - Dec 2024 · 4 mos

    Q4 Coursework: How to Write With AI - Every AI-Driven Leadership - Stanford Online Books: Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari The Defining Decade by Meg Jay Coddling Of The American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

  • Principal at EnVision Breathwork
    Jun 2022 - Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    • Created custom Breathwork trainings for Google, Yelp, Mindbody, and more. • Featured on Udemy for my 10 Day Series, Breathflow. • Led 100+ Breathwork and ice bath events in the US, Costa Rica, France, and online.

  • Business Development Representative at Tableau
    Dec 2021 - Jun 2022 · 7 mos

    • Maintained 50 outbound calls per day selling Tableau, a Salesforce product, into the public sector. • Worked closely with 5 Account Executives to build territory plans and maintain portfolio of 200+ existing clients. • Sourced $175,000 ACV deal with Florida DMS within one month in position by reaching out to lapsed contracts. • Spearheaded outbound prospecting into 1,000+ government and healthcare leads in Quebec and Alberta as the only French-speaking BDR in the organization. • Created 25 French sequences in Outreach that became the foundation for future prospecting into French Canadian territories.