THE OPERATOR

Engineer. Architect. CTO.

I am Alec Mingione, in Phoenix, Arizona. I build the systems, and the businesses on top of them.

Previously NewGen · Charles Schwab · Honeywell

  • Alec at his desk mid-thought, editor open behind him and guitars on the wall
  • A cappuccino on a bar counter
  • A waterfall falling into a bright blue pool between canyon rocks
  • A laptop running code beside a copy of $100M Leads and a notebook, in the window light of a co-working space
  • Desert scrub under a long orange sunset

The story

Five chapters. One still being written.

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Unwritten

Written with you.

If you are building something and need someone who can whiteboard the architecture in the morning and present the unit economics in the afternoon, this is where we start.

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A Masterpiece will Always Require Effort

The story of Alec Mingione. Five chapters, and one still being written.

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Chapter

Chapter 01: First program at eight

Age
8
Machine
eMachine, self-taught typing

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I have loved making things and being creative for as long as I can remember. I wrote my first program at eight, two weeks after my mom brought home the brand new eMachine I taught myself to type on.

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Chapter

Chapter 02: Cars, art, and taking things apart

Age
13
First build
ASUS · 4 GB DDR2

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The only thing I loved more than computers as a kid was cars, art, and taking things apart. At thirteen I started building PCs, chasing the biggest, baddest gaming rig. My first build was an ASUS with 4 GB of DDR2. A caveman these days.

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Chapter

Chapter 03: From factory floors to Schwab

Started
Automation programmer, Honeywell
Then
Junior developer → Charles Schwab

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That curiosity became a career. I started as an automation programmer at Honeywell Aerospace headquarters, where 10 to 30 laptops reached IT every day and each one had to be imaged and set up the same day. On a 36-laptop day, the old process finished 12. I built a tool that automated the imaging and setup, and the team finished 26: more than twice the output. From there I moved into web engineering as a junior developer, then joined Charles Schwab and shipped production code for one of the largest brokerages in the world. Every role deepened the same instinct: figure out how the machine works, then make it work better.

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Chapter

Chapter 04: Designing the systems, not just the features

Role
Senior Lead
At
NewGen Business Solutions

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At NewGen Business Solutions I stepped into a Senior Lead role and the work shifted from writing features to designing the systems they lived in. I owned architecture, set technical direction, and mentored engineers through complex builds. The hardest problems were never in the code. They were in the gap between what the business needed and what the technology could deliver.

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Chapter

Chapter 05: Bridging the boardroom and the codebase

MBA
February 2026
Now
MiPi · Kingdom Kode · on-demand CTO

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That realization led to an MBA, completed in February 2026: pitching real investors, stress-testing business models, learning the language of growth alongside the language of code. Today I am the founder of MiPi, co-founder of Kingdom Kode, and an on-demand CTO for teams who need someone who can whiteboard architecture in the morning and present unit economics in the afternoon.

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Chapter 06

Being written.

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Service record

The Record Behind the Playbook

Experience

  • AMWARE Technologies LLCFounder & Fractional CTO2026 - present
  • EdenKodeChief Technology Officer2024 - present
  • Kingdom KodeCo-Founder & CEO2025 - present
  • MiPiFounder & CEO2022 - present
  • NewGen Business SolutionsSenior Lead Software Engineer2021 - 2025
  • Charles SchwabSoftware Engineer2019 - 2021
  • Dot Com DevelopmentJunior Software Engineer2018 - 2019
  • RL Canning (Honeywell)Automation Programmer2017 - 2020

Education

  • MBA, Business AdministrationWoolf University2026
  • Certified Full-Stack Software DeveloperWoz U, founded by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Certificate signed by Wozniak.2019
  • GCCAssociate of Science, Computer ScienceGlendale Community College2020
  • AI Fluency for Small BusinessesAnthropic2026

What I do

System ArchitectureFractional CTO WorkFull-Stack EngineeringAI Product DevelopmentIndustrial AutomationTeam MentorshipBusiness StrategyE-Commerce Builds

Stack

  • Next.js
  • React
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Figma
  • Node.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL
  • Payload CMS
  • Vercel
  • Stripe
  • GSAP
  • Motion
  • Cursor
  • GitHub
  • Creem
  • Polar
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