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ALEXANDER OSORIO MUNERA

Engineer. Educator. Entrepreneur. Builder.

About Me

Alexander Osorio Munera

From unloading coffee sacks in a small town in Risaralda, to policing the streets of Colombia, to cleaning floors at the University of Westminster — and graduating First Class Honours from that same building.

That journey shaped everything I do. From London to Colombia, I've built software products, published 11+ books, taught thousands of students, and launched businesses. I believe in the power of relentless curiosity, disciplined execution, and sharing knowledge freely.

Today I work at the intersection of technology, education, and entrepreneurship — building tools that solve real problems and teaching the next generation of builders.

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My Journey

From a coffee town in Risaralda to building across continents

1993

Bulteador & Café Waiter — Belén de Umbría

First jobs as a teenager in a small coffee town in Risaralda, Colombia. Unloaded heavy sacks of coffee and plantain from jeeps at a café agency during weekends, and waited tables at a local café — all while studying secondary school.

1995

Folk Dance Teacher

Straight out of secondary school, turned a passion for traditional Colombian folk dance into teaching. Led classes and performed, building early skills in leadership, discipline, and cultural expression.

1998

Colombian National Police — Patrullero

Joined the Colombian National Police. Completed one year of training as Patrullero, followed by two years of service as a professional police officer — learning discipline, structure, and public service.

2001

Moved to London — Cleaner at Westminster

Emigrated to London from Colombia without a word of English. Took the first job I could find — cleaning floors at the University of Westminster — and started learning the language the way a child does: by listening, failing, and trying again. Seven years later, I would graduate from that same building with First Class Honours.

2004

Westminster University — BSc Mobile Communications

Enrolled in BSc Mobile Communications Engineering at the University of Westminster — trading the mop for a lecture hall in the same building. Graduated four years later with First Class Honours.

2008

Freelance Web Developer

Started freelancing, building websites and web applications for small businesses in London.

2008

Urban WiMAX — Intern to RF Engineer

Joined Urban WiMAX in London as an intern in my final year at Westminster — in less than six months I was hired as a Radio Frequency Engineer, formalised as an Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership role jointly with Westminster. Two years building line-of-sight coverage models across millions of London rooftops; became an accredited WiMAX Forum expert in broadband telecom and RF. Later authored a book on the subject.

2009

MBA — University of Wales

Completed the Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship at the University of Wales Lampeter (2009–2010), blending engineering with business strategy.

2010

Return to Colombia — Teaching & Entrepreneurship

Came home to Colombia at the end of 2010, straight after completing the MBA in London — to teach at universities, launch ventures in education and technology, and begin laying the groundwork for what would become Ciudad Bilingüe.

2015

Published First Books

Began publishing career with books on business, cryptocurrency, and emotional intelligence. Now 11+ titles on Amazon.

2015

Co-founded Ciudad Bilingüe

Co-founded Ciudad Bilingüe in Pereira, Colombia — a bilingual academy built around the Active Speaking Method. I have been its Director ever since, running the school in parallel with the other ventures and platforms that grew out of it. Eleven years in, the academy has graduated 1,000+ students and become the anchor for an ecosystem of products (CRM, Talky, Axiom).

2018

IP Diploma — UPB

Earned Intellectual Property Diploma from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, adding legal expertise to the toolkit.

2020

Began Building Talky & Axiom

Began building Talky — now an AI-powered language learning platform spanning 9 languages, 140+ curriculum books, and a custom ESP32 voice device (TutorPal) — alongside Axiom, the human-in-the-loop AI assistant that runs the business from WhatsApp. After six years of development and a full year of content testing through 2026, Talky launches publicly later this year.

2022

GeoRef & La Lupa

Built GeoRef — a real-time field-operations map with role-based views — and La Lupa, an AI-powered civic intelligence platform that now holds 549 verified cases of Colombian public wrongdoing at lalupa.com.co. Both still active and being expanded through 2026.

2025

Studying Google Data Analytics

Working through the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate (Coursera) since 2025 — sharpening data-driven decision-making and digital-strategy capabilities across the portfolio.

What I Build

End-to-end systems — designed, architected, and shipped. From AI engines to IoT devices.

Integrated Ecosystem
Ciudad Bilingüe CRM Talky Axiom AI
WhatsApp Meta Cloud API Claude AI Brain Intent + Reasoning Approval Gate Human-in-Loop Gmail Calendar CRM Invoices

Axiom

Lead Architect Live

Jarvis for a real education business — AI operations over WhatsApp

Axiom is the AI operations brain for a real education company, reached through a single WhatsApp chat. It reasons with Claude, then acts across Google Workspace, the CRM, Canva, and local systems — drafting emails, moving calendar events, pulling student data, generating invoice PDFs, creating visuals. Every sensitive action is gated behind human approval, so nothing fires without a conscious “yes.” It's been running on Firebase Cloud Functions 24/7 since early 2026, quietly removing hours of routine work from the business every week.

5+ Integrations
24/7 Uptime
HITL Approval Gate
PDF Auto Invoices
Director Hub Analytics Dashboard Students Enrollment + Groups Finance Payments + Payroll Operations Teachers + Tasks

CRM System

Full-Stack Dev Live

Operating system for a bilingual academy — 41 modules, 4 roles, GPS-validated attendance

The operational spine of Ciudad Bilingüe. 41 modules covering every corner of running a school: enrollment, scheduling, GPS-validated attendance (500m radius), multi-currency payments with a full audit trail, payroll across three institutions, director analytics, and real-time reconciliation. Role-based permissions change the entire UI per user — teachers see one world, salespeople another, the director sees everything. Same app, four experiences. Live in production today.

41 Modules
4 Roles
GPS Attendance
3 Institutions
News Feeds RSS Sources AI Analysis Claude Categorizer Publish Verified Cases GitHub Actions • 4x/day

La Lupa

Lead Architect Live

Turning scattered corruption reports into institutional memory for Colombia

La Lupa is a civic transparency platform that reads the news so citizens don't have to. Claude AI scans 7+ Colombian news sources four times a day, categorizes findings into nine types of public wrongdoing — corruption, abuse of power, contract fraud, misuse of public resources — deduplicates via semantic similarity, then routes them to an admin approval queue before they go public. The database now holds 549 verified cases and 19 deep-dive opinion articles documenting over $70B in exposed scandals. Live at lalupa.com.co.

549 Verified Cases
9 Categories
Daily Scans
$70B+ Exposed
Web App Next.js 16 Mobile React Native AI Sentiment OpenAI Analysis Database PostgreSQL

MindfulNews

Lead Architect Active

A mood dial for the news — slide from “only positive” to “raw reality”

MindfulNews puts one strange idea at the center: most people don't want to block the news, they want to choose how much darkness they consume. A single mood dial (0–100) filters in real time as you slide, backed by AI sentiment analysis, entity extraction, and keyword-level blocklists for people, topics, or outlets. Aggregates 25+ English and Spanish sources across four Latin American countries, with on-demand AI summaries in your language. Ships as a Next.js web app and a React Native mobile app that stay in sync.

25+ Sources
2 Platforms
0–100 Mood Dial
4 Countries
Z1 Z2 Z3 Z4 Interactive Map Firebase Real-time Sync Admin Leader Field

GeoRef

Full-Stack Dev Active

Turning a territory into a living, real-time map

GeoRef takes field operations and makes them visual. Leaders draw zones, assign teams, drop contacts on the map, and watch data sync live across admin, leader, and field-agent views — each role seeing only what they need. Automated geocoding turns addresses into pins; CSV export turns the map back into a business document.

Live Map
3 Roles
CSV Export
Driver Pereira Coffee Region AI Tutor Guided Conversations EN ↔ ES ☕ Coffee Culture ✈ Tourism ☎ Service Academically-Designed Curriculum

TaxiTutor

Lead Architect Live · 2026

English for taxi drivers in Colombia’s coffee region — so the first face of tourism speaks the traveler’s language

When a foreign traveler lands in Pereira to see Colombia’s coffee region, the first person they meet is almost always a taxi driver. TaxiTutor is an AI-guided English tutor built specifically for those drivers — an academically designed curriculum covering coffee culture, regional tourism, customer service, and the specific language of the driver’s trade (directions, fares, small talk, hotel pickups, airport runs). The app runs conversational sessions where the driver speaks, the AI responds, corrects, and gradually levels up the difficulty — turning dead time between trips into paid-off practice, and turning a ride from the airport into a genuinely bilingual welcome to the coffee region.

AI Guided Convo
3 Curriculum Tracks
EN↔ES Bilingual
Pereira Coffee Region
Website Next.js 14 + SEO Bili (AI) Claude-powered Live human takeover CRM Lead Pipeline ★ 4.7 · 125 Google reviews

Ciudad Bilingüe

Co-founder & Director Live

A bilingual academy I co-founded in Pereira — the front door to the whole ecosystem

Ciudad Bilingüe is the real-world English academy I co-founded in 2015 and have directed ever since from Pereira, Colombia. The website is built on Next.js 14 with SEO-optimized landing pages, blog articles, and “Bili” — a Claude-powered AI chatbot that answers questions about courses and lets staff take over the conversation in real time when a human touch is needed. This is the top of the funnel: visitors become leads in the CRM, students get provisioned into Talky, and Axiom handles their invoices. 11 years running, 1,000+ graduates, 4.7 stars across 125 Google reviews.

11+ Years Operating
1K+ Graduates
4.7★ Google Reviews
SENA Gov. Backed
Leader 1 Leader 2 Leader N Registration Phone = invite code Firestore Admin Live Analytics CSV Export

Durguez VIP Access

Lead Designer & Builder Live · 2026 Campaign

A campaign platform where every community leader becomes their own invite code

Designed and built for Durguez Espinosa's 2026 run for the Colombian Cámara de Representantes — a campaign I supported across design, strategy, and engineering. The central idea is simple and distinctly grassroots: each campaign leader's phone number doubles as their personal invite code, so every supporter who registers is attributed back to a real person in a real neighborhood. A live admin dashboard shows who brought whom, segments by territory, and exports voter lists on demand. 5,000+ users passed through the platform in the lead-up to a March 3, 2026 virtual event.

5K+ Users
2026 Campaign
Live Admin Panel
CSV Export
design system biography timeline 12 achievements Julián Ospina Lawyer · Public Servant julianospina.com.co ● LIVE

Julián Ospina

Design & Build Live

Personal branding for a Colombian lawyer and public servant

A professional portfolio built for Julián Andrés Ospina Posada — a Colombian lawyer stepping into public life. Custom design system in navy and gold, a biographical timeline that tells the story of a career, 12 categorized achievements with filters, and a lightweight static blog engine for long-form writing. Clean, fast, and designed to be taken seriously by institutions and voters alike.

12 Achievements
Blog Static Engine
.co Custom Domain
Xiomara BOLÍVAR dental excellence Implants Ortho Smile Aesthetic ES · EN

Xiomara Bolívar

Design & Build Live

A luxury dental practice, reimagined in typography and light

A digital home for Dr. Xiomara Bolívar's dental practice — orthodontics, implants, smile design, aesthetics. I leaned into quiet luxury: a Cormorant Garamond display serif, warm gold-and-cream palette, radial gradients that feel like studio lighting, and full bilingual Spanish/English infrastructure. Designed to reassure before a single word is read. Live at xiomarabolivar.com.

ES/EN Bilingual
4 Service Areas
.com Custom Domain
alexanderom.co this portfolio lalupa.com.co civic intelligence ciudadbilingue.com bilingual academy + many more personal brands civic tools small businesses across Colombia

Web Design Practice

Designer & Builder Ongoing

Dozens of sites designed and shipped — personal, civic, and client

In parallel with the platform work, I design and ship a steady stream of websites for my own ventures and for external clients. Recent examples include alexanderom.co (this portfolio), lalupa.com.co, and ciudadbilingue.com — plus the Julián Ospina and Xiomara Bolívar projects above, and many more personal brands, civic tools, and small-business sites across Colombia not individually listed here.

20+ Sites Shipped
ES/EN Bilingual
SEO Optimized
Live Ongoing Practice
$ 20 calculators Programmatic SEO 50 states · 50 cities 349 pages · kubomoney.com

KuboMoney

Co-Founder & Builder Live

Free financial calculators for everyone — no login, no fees, no tracking

KuboMoney was born from a simple frustration: every good financial calculator either charges, requires a sign-up, or sells your data. So we built the opposite. 20 purpose-built calculators — mortgage, compound interest, retirement, debt-to-income, auto loan, credit card payoff, home affordability, business startup cost, tax withholding, and more — all running entirely in the browser, with zero data storage. Wrapped around them is a programmatic SEO layer of 349 pages covering all 50 US states and 50 major cities with real salary, cost-of-living, and tax data, so people actually find the tool when they’re making a real financial decision. Co-founded with Vanessa Ocampo. Live at kubomoney.com.

20 Calculators
349 SEO Pages
50+50 States · Cities
$0 Free · Private
Spotlight · Deep Dive

Talky — a research-grade platform for Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Built end to end: 9 conversational languages, 8 Professional English tracks, CEFR-aligned pedagogy, a 25-band adaptive difficulty engine, a 3-layer speech evaluation cascade, an ambient IoT voice device, and a live 50-student classroom mode.

9 Languages
8 Prof. English Tracks
140+ Curriculum Books
75K+ Q&A Items
A1–C2 CEFR Range
50 Live Classroom
01

Pedagogy, grounded in CALL research

CEFR progression · 25 adaptive bands A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2 flow zone · 75% accuracy scaffolding · ZPD · comprehensible input · spaced exposure
  • CEFR A1→C2 curriculum, grammar-constrained at every level (Books 1–4 A2; 5–8 B1–B2; 9–10 B2+).
  • 25-band adaptive difficulty engine targeting the 75% accuracy flow zone — a computational operationalization of Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development.
  • Six exercise modalities (speak-match, listen-select, dictation, fill-blanks, sentence building, open conversation) rotate to prevent habituation and maintain comprehensible-input variety.
  • Emotion-aware coaching tracks motivation, confidence, and frustration, and switches tutor persona (encouraging / analytical / patient) accordingly.
02

A multi-surface learning system

Learner adaptive state Mobile App Cloud Brain GPT-4o · Azure · Whisper TutorPal IoT ESP32-S3 · ambient AR Kids Viro · characters Video Tutor Agora · live 1:1 Classroom · 50 students
  • React Native mobile app — 245 JS modules, 40+ screens, iOS + Android from a single codebase.
  • Cloud brain — OpenAI GPT-4o-mini for reasoning, Azure Neural TTS for 9-language voices, Whisper for server-side STT, Firebase Realtime DB for classroom coordination.
  • TutorPal IoT device — a Waveshare ESP32-S3 voice board with Xiaozhi firmware, enabling ambient, always-on language exposure away from the phone.
  • AR kids mode & live video — ViroReact AR characters for younger learners; Agora SDK video calls for one-to-one tutoring sessions.
03

Language for Specific Purposes — 8 Professional English tracks

Each track is a self-contained 40-unit B1–B2 module, built around domain-specific vocabulary, scenario-based practice, and the genuine registers a professional uses at work. Tracks run in parallel with the general A1–C2 curriculum, so a learner can hold Book 5 (general A2) alongside Book 901 (Business B1).

Live
💼

Business English

Meetings · Clients · Presentations · Executive strategy

B1 → B2 · 40 units
Live
🎯

Interview Prep

STAR answers · Salary negotiation · Curveballs

B1 → B2 · 40 units
Coming Soon

Tourism

Hospitality · Guest services · Cultural code-switching

B1 → B2 · 40 units
Coming Soon
🛫

Aviation

Crew comms · Safety procedures · Regulatory English

B2+ · 40 units
Coming Soon

Legal

Contracts · Deposition prep · Legal terminology

B2+ · 40 units
Coming Soon

Medical

Clinical comms · Patient interactions · Abbreviations

B2+ · 40 units
Coming Soon
🛠

Engineering

Technical docs · Standards · Project English

B1 → B2 · 40 units
Coming Soon
🩺

Nursing

Patient care · Team handoff · Documentation

B1 → B2 · 40 units
04

Where Talky meets research

Talky is a live testbed for applied-linguistics and CALL questions. Because every interaction is logged against a CEFR-aligned taxonomy and an explicit difficulty band, the platform can host controlled interventions at real scale.

Q1

Adaptive difficulty vs. fixed curriculum

The 25-band engine already targets a 75% flow-zone. Randomized-assignment studies could measure whether ZPD-targeted sequencing outperforms a fixed A1→C2 path on retention and CEFR checkpoint pass rates.

Q2

Pedagogically-aligned speech evaluation

Talky’s 3-layer cascade (exact match → local grammar + keyword analysis → AI judge) composites keywords (50%), similarity (30%), length (10%), and grammar (10%), and hard-caps meaning errors. Research question: does this rubric-aligned score correlate better with teacher judgments than acoustic STT confidence?

Q3

Ambient IoT exposure & incidental acquisition

TutorPal enables asynchronous, device-mediated language exposure at home. This is novel territory for ubiquitous CALL: does short-burst ambient exposure between app sessions meaningfully boost retention of B1 vocabulary?

Q4

Emotion analytics & persistence

Emotional-state signals (motivation, confidence, frustration) are already captured and shape coaching persona. A study could test whether emotion-adaptive coaching raises weekly session counts over a 12-week window, and whether the effect is stronger in Professional English tracks.

Q5

Multilingual contrastive scaffolding

Parallel EN / FR / ES curricula make L1-transfer effects observable at scale. Where does positive transfer accelerate progression, and where does interference slow it? A Polylang / Talky partnership could produce publishable answers.

Q6

Equitable classroom voice

Talky’s turn-based classroom gives all 50 students speaking time, not only those who raise a hand. A natural experiment: compare L2 output volume and accuracy gains against traditional call-on-hand classrooms.

Published Books

11+ titles on Amazon covering business, crypto, emotional intelligence, and academia

Education & Certifications

🎓

BSc Mobile Communications Engineering (First Class Honours)

University of Westminster, London

2004 — 2008
🎓

MBA — Master of Business Administration

University of Wales Lampeter

2009 — 2010
📜

Intellectual Property Diploma

Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB)

2018
📡

WiMAX Certification

WiMAX Forum

2009
📊

Google Data Analytics (in progress)

Google / Coursera

2025 — present

Skills & Tech Stack

Programming Languages

JavaScript Python C# Java TypeScript PHP SQL HTML/CSS

Frameworks & Libraries

React Node.js Django Laravel .NET Express Flask React Native

AI / ML

TensorFlow Scikit-learn NLP OpenAI API Pandas

Data & Databases

PostgreSQL MongoDB MySQL Firebase Elasticsearch Redis

Maps & GIS

Leaflet Google Maps API GeoJSON PostGIS

Telecom

WiMAX Network Architecture RF Engineering

Teaching & Education

Curriculum Design EdTech LMS Platforms Academic Research

Business

Strategic Planning Digital Marketing Product Management Google Analytics

Human Languages

English (Fluent) Spanish (Native)

Let's Build Something

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