# Alex Gerlitz - AI Automation / Backend / Platform Engineer

> I build backend-owned AI workflow and operations systems for real businesses: RAG, transcript and call analysis, approval flows, CRM/ERP/API adapters, FastAPI/PostgreSQL backends, Docker/CI, runbooks, and recovery paths.

This is the AI-readable proof index for my public GitHub/LinkedIn review route. It is intentionally short: start with the strongest proof path, then inspect the repositories and verification routes that show how the work is built, tested, operated, and handed off.

## Primary Proof Route

- [DriveDesk AI Operator proof route](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/drivedesk-proof-route.html): backend-owned AI workflow proof for RAG, transcript analysis, lead scoring, approvals, CRM handoff, audit, retries, and adapter boundaries.
- [Hiring decision route](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/hiring-decision.html): one-minute role fit, strongest proof, first-month ownership, and contact route.
- [Selected proof projects](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/projects.html): repo-level evidence across DriveDesk AI Operator, DriveDesk Core, AI Ops Workflow Kit, DeployMate, and MPlusForm.
- [Remote role targets](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/role-targets.html): search-fit roles mapped to proof, first-month ownership, and direct review routes.
- [Work with me](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/work-with-me.html): remote role and fixed-scope project route with best immediate starts, fit filter, proof links, and contact path.
- [Skill evidence map](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/skill-evidence.html): skills mapped to public proof for AI automation, backend/platform, CRM/ERP integration, and DevOps.
- [Verification pack](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/verification-pack.html): CI, live smoke, public demo, evidence links, and proof freshness.
- [LinkedIn Service Page Fit](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/LINKEDIN_SERVICE_PAGE_FIT.md): exact service-category strategy for routing LinkedIn Services requests toward backend/platform, AI workflow, integration, data, and DevOps work.

## Best-Fit Work

- Remote-only backend, platform, DevOps, AI automation, integration, and internal operations roles.
- Fixed-scope projects with one messy workflow, one success condition, and a first working slice with tests, logs, docs, and a handoff path.
- Strongest fit: backend-owned AI workflows, CRM/ERP/API adapters, RAG systems, Telegram/operator approvals, internal admin tools, deployment/recovery workflows, and production-style proof.
- LinkedIn Services fit filter: Web Development or Custom Software Development requests are a fit only when they include backend/platform, AI workflow, integration, DevOps, or internal-operations ownership.
- Not my target right now: onsite-only work, pure prompt/content tasks, isolated brochure/static websites, student/course assignments, generic mobile/ecommerce apps without backend or integration ownership, and vague work where success cannot be verified.

## Search-Fit Role Targets

- Headline: AI Automation / Backend / Platform Engineer | RAG, LLM workflows, CRM/ERP integrations, FastAPI, Docker, DevOps | DriveDesk AI Operator.
- Best-fit titles: Back End Developer, Python Developer, AI Automation Engineer, LLM Workflow / RAG Engineer, Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Integration Engineer, Internal Tools Engineer.
- Work mode: remote-only full-time roles or concrete fixed-scope projects with backend/platform/integration ownership.
- First-month ownership: ship one business workflow slice with backend-owned state, tests, logs, docs, deployment path, and handoff.

## Pinned Proof Repositories

- [DriveDesk Core](https://github.com/AlexGerlitz/drivedesk-core): FastAPI/PostgreSQL operations platform foundation with tenants, RBAC, audit/outbox, adapters, OpenAPI, Docker, pytest, CI, docs, and public demo.
- [AI Ops Workflow Kit](https://github.com/AlexGerlitz/ai-ops-workflow-kit): document intake, RAG retrieval, transcript analysis, approvals, Telegram callback, dry-run Bitrix CRM handoff, outbox, CI, and smoke checks.
- [DeployMate](https://github.com/AlexGerlitz/deploymate): self-hosted Docker deployment control panel direction with FastAPI, Next.js, PostgreSQL, SSH runtime tooling, health checks, logs, release gates, and runbooks.
- [MPlusForm](https://github.com/AlexGerlitz/MPlusForm): validation-boundary and trust-model automation proof with untrusted local files, optional Python sync, server-approved snapshots, Windows operations docs, Lua addon boundary, and public verification.

## Fast Contact

- [LinkedIn profile](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-gerlitz-a659ab3bb/)
- [LinkedIn Services](https://www.linkedin.com/services/page/3153b734507b8a60ab/)
- [LinkedIn Service Page Fit](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/LINKEDIN_SERVICE_PAGE_FIT.md)
- [Remote AI Automation Services](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/services.html): fast first message route for one remote role or one messy workflow, one success condition, systems involved, and a working-slice outcome.
- [Remote role targets](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/role-targets.html)
- [Work with me](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/work-with-me.html)
- [Start conversation](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/start-conversation.html)
- [Inbound brief](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/intake-brief.html)
- [Contact routes](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/inbound-response.html)
- [PDF resume](https://alexgerlitz.github.io/AlexGerlitz/output/pdf/alex-gerlitz-remote-ai-automation-resume.pdf)

## Review Notes

- I use AI-assisted execution as an engineering accelerator, but I keep ownership of architecture, state, tests, logs, verification, deployment, docs, and shipped quality.
- The main signal is not no-code node wiring. The signal is backend-owned state, RAG quality, audit, retries, idempotency, integration contracts, smoke checks, and runbooks.