Alex Wolf 🌈
I help tech teams and leaders mediate conflict, align mental models, and design engineering cultures that remain coherent under pressure.
(they/them)
I design socio-technical systems
that stay coherent under load.
Most failures are not technical.
They are caused by:
- misunderstood requirements,
- deferred and unowned decisions,
- communication that collapses under load.
I locate and mediate conflict before it hardens into structure.
Offering
System Coherence
- Make implicit constraints explicit
- Integrate divergent mental models
- Reduce ambiguity before it hardens into structure
Socio-Technical Architecture
- Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- Conway-aware system design
- Architecture as organizational memory
Coherence Under Load
- Incident and outage dynamics
- Regulated decision-making under load
- Load distribution instead of load dumping
This is upstream work.
Before tech debt.
Before burnout.
Before failure modes repeat.
Experience
Systemic Engineer — Freelance
Designing systems where humans and code can function under real conditions.
Backend Lead / Principal Engineer — 7Mind
- Led backend and architecture for systems used by millions
- Introduced DDD-inspired architecture
- Reduced lead times from months to weeks
- Significantly reduced defect rates, code volume, and recurring conflicts
- Built a psychologically safe, load-bearing engineering culture
Senior / Technical Roles — BetterDoc, grandcentrix
- Health tech, platform engineering, distributed systems
- Tech Leadership, mediation, architecture, backend engineering
- Recurring pattern: technology wasn’t the bottleneck — alignment was
Values
Clarity > Comfort
If a model lies, I won’t protect it.
Coherence > Speed
Fast decisions that fragment systems are expensive.
Integration > Compensation
Unintegrated reality always gets encoded somewhere.
Regulation > Authority
Calm, not control, keeps systems stable.
Engineering > Narrative
No motivation, no posturing — just systems that hold.
If this resonates, you’re likely already carrying load.
This work can be done deliberately.
Systemic Engineering is how I help teams and leaders
restore coherence in complex systems.
You can reach me at:
📧 alex@systemic.engineer
And find my terms here.