Hi, I'm Alex.
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Software engineer turned developer advocate. Five years creating content on MuleSoft, AI, DataWeave, and building with Claude. Videos, articles, livestreams, and open source.
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34:46MuleSoft Overview: A Beginner's Guide
A guided tour of the MuleSoft product family and the many ways to plug into the community. This is the most-watched session of the beginner series, a friendly starting point for anyone new to the platform.
25:54Getting Started with Anypoint Code Builder in VS Code
A step-by-step beginner walkthrough that installs Anypoint Code Builder locally in VS Code, then builds and runs your first Hello World Mule app from scratch, with every setting explained along the way.
2:52Connect Your Salesforce Org to MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
An Agentforce Decoded episode on the official Salesforce channel that walks through connecting a Salesforce org to Anypoint Platform, so its APIs become invocable actions your agents and flows can call.
4:54Bring Your Own Language Model to Agentforce with MuleSoft
An Agentforce Decoded episode on the official Salesforce channel, showing how to plug your own language model into Agentforce using MuleSoft as the bridge, so you can route agent requests to the model of your choice.
DataWeave Scripts
A curated collection of the more complex DataWeave transformations Alex has written over the years, kept as a reusable reference. It is the most-starred repo in the catalog and a favorite among MuleSoft developers.
MuleSoft from Start
The companion repo to the Twitch live sessions for MuleSoft beginners, holding every project and code sample built on stream. Clone it to follow along session by session, or reuse the pieces in your own work.
Supercharge MuleSoft Development with Modern AI Tools
A conference talk from Agentforce World Tour Toronto 2025 on putting modern AI tools to work across the MuleSoft workflow: drafting API specs, writing DataWeave, debugging faster, and generating MUnit tests.
DataWeave 2.0 core functions cheatsheet
A compilation of the DataWeave 2.0 core functions from the official documentation, grouped by input and output, with a link to each function's reference. A handy cheatsheet to keep open while you write transformations.
1:01:01MuleSoft for Salesforce Devs: Ask Me Anything
A live AMA on the official Salesforce Developers channel, fielding MuleSoft questions from the community alongside fellow advocates. A relaxed intro to the platform and the people behind it, straight from the source.
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Keep Your .claude Folder Private with a Git Submodule
Split your .claude/ config into a private repo while your project stays public: a git submodule plus a CLAUDE.md symlink so Claude Code still finds it.
AI Agent Skills: What They Are and How to Use Them
A beginner's guide to AI agent skills: what a SKILL.md file is, how to set one up in Claude Code, and how to hand an AI an llms.txt to pick the skill it needs.
adventofcode-2025
DataWeave scripts used in the adventofcode.com site for 2025. Now solved with AI.
Two AIs, one DataWeave, 23 Advent of Code puzzles
TL;DR, I pitted Claude (Opus 4.7, MAX effort) against CurieTech AI on 23 Advent of Code puzzles, asking each for a DataWeave solution. Highlights: Curie solved one more puzzle (21...
Claude Code vs CurieTech AI: Solving Advent of Code 2025 Days 1 and 2 in DataWeave (MuleSoft)
Two AIs, four DataWeave puzzles, one question, which one writes better MuleSoft code? In this video I put Claude Code (running in MAX effort mode) head-to-head against CurieTech AI to solve Advent of
Claude Code vs CurieTech AI: Which Writes Better DataWeave?
Kicking off AI Showdown: MuleSoft Edition (2026) by pitting Claude Code against CurieTech AI on Advent of Code 2025, same inputs, benchmarked in the DataWeave Playground. Who writ...
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