Alf Kaech

AI Architect & Builder

From Airbus cockpits over Europe to autonomous agent systems running on bare metal in the Rockies β€” six lives in one.

Six epochs, one trajectory

1994–2004

Education

From aerospace science to top-tier business strategy

University of North DakotaUND AerospaceIvey Business School
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1999–2007

Aviation

Flying Airbuses and building aircraft families at 26

SwissairCrossair / SwissBombardier Aerospace
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2012–2018

Entrepreneurial

Building companies, leading teams, owning outcomes

Custom Cloud WorksElevation Solutions
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2013–2024

Consulting

11 years as a Salesforce Solution Architect across Silicon Valley and beyond

Penrod SoftwareNorth HighlandElevation SolutionsCustom Cloud WorksMondayCall SolutionsBenissimoExponent Partners
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2021–2024

Bitcoin & Sovereignty

5,000+ hours of deep protocol research, trading, and a philosophical shift toward sovereignty

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2024–Present

AI Enablement

Building sovereign AI infrastructure β€” from bare metal to multi-agent orchestration

Kaech VenturesHeartForge AI
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What I bring

🧠 AI Architecture

Multi-agent systems, local inference, RAG pipelines, GPU orchestration

πŸ—οΈ Systems Design

Enterprise solution architecture across 7 firms, 11 years Salesforce ecosystem

✈️ High-Stakes Operations

Airbus A320 First Officer β€” crew resource management, split-second decisions

πŸ” Sovereign Infrastructure

Bitcoin protocol depth, self-custody, decentralized systems thinking

πŸ“Š Business Strategy

Ivey MBA, entrepreneurial ventures, Bombardier CSeries go-to-market

🌍 Languages

English (native), German & Swiss German (advanced), French (basic)

What I've built & done

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Titan β€” Sovereign AI Server

Designed and built a 57-container autonomous agent fleet running local inference on an RTX 5090. Multi-agent orchestration, persistent memory, voice pipelines.

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Airbus A320 First Officer

Selected through Swissair's 6-month international pilot screening. Type-rated on A319/320/321. Operated throughout Europe at age 26.

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11 Years Enterprise Architecture

Solution architect across 7 firms including Penrod, North Highland, and MondayCall. Health Cloud, Data Cloud, complex integrations.

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Bombardier CSeries Incubator

Led "Power by the Hour" aftermarket pricing model β€” negotiated service levels with every aircraft component supplier for a launch aircraft family.

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Summa Cum Laude, Top 5%

B.Sc. Air Transportation from UND Aerospace with a 3.94 GPA. Minor concentrations in Space Sciences and German Studies.

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5,000+ Hours Bitcoin Research

Deep protocol research, trading, mining. A philosophical shift toward sovereignty that reshaped my career entirely.

Let's build something

I work with organizations navigating the AI transition β€” from strategy to bare-metal infrastructure. If you have a project worth building, reach out.

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