Alan Roybal — AI & Systems Engineer

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02 / experience

places i've worked.

NorthMark Compute and Cloud

AI Engineering Intern

Internship · Dallas, TX · Jun 2026 — Present

Built an MCP gateway brokering secure model access for 12+ internal tools and an eval harness validating LLMs across 30+ benchmark suites before launch.

MCP
LLM Evals
On-prem Inference

12+

tools on the gateway

Townes & Co.

Founding Engineer

Full-time · Dallas, TX · Apr 2026 — Present

Shipped an AI platform end-to-end — ingestion to deploy — with data integrations processing 5M+ records/day for the primary enterprise customer.

AI Platform
Data Ingestion
Full-stack

5M+

records/day ingested

General Motors Financial

Software Engineering Intern

Internship · Arlington, TX · May 2025 — May 2026

Built test automation for 50+ API endpoints and a sub-50ms MCP agent, then was promoted to lead a 7-person team — lifting velocity ~25%.

Python
C#
Azure DevOps
MCP

7→15

teams adopting AI

leadership & community

HackUTD — ACM

Director

Nonprofit · Dallas, TX · Jan 2024 — Present

Directing a 40+ volunteer team behind North America's largest 24-hour hackathon on a six-figure budget, and shipping the open-source Jury platform to 10 organizations.

Open Source
Leadership
Community

1,000+

participants

i'm alan —i build intelligent systems.

i build the layers most people skip.

AI & Large Language Models

Languages

Frameworks

Cloud & Infrastructure

places i've worked.

NorthMark Compute and Cloud

Townes & Co.

General Motors Financial

HackUTD — ACM

things i've built.

Earth2Echo

Earth2Echo

CoTTY

CoTTY

Lyria Studio

Lyria Studio