Alejandro Cantarero

About Alejandro Cantarero

Experienced product and data leader helping to set strategic direction of data-driven products at B2B and B2C companies. Experience includes staffing, training, and mentoring talent, and both leading and working hands-on to deliver data-driven products that deliver value for customers.

Experience

1. Head of Agentic Ai Labs

   IBM

   Aug 2025 — Present

   Agentic AI Labs takes organic developer adoption of IBM open source products and turns it into deeper IBM software solutions for Agentic AI.Team focus includes:* POC and technical wins on agentic AI software deals* Sales enablement of the broader IBM field on Agentic AI software* Prototyping and definition of new product features from client input* Team focus on IBMs open core Agentic AI products including:* Langflow - low-code agent builder * Docling - unstructured document processing * MCP ContextForge - MCP gateway * Agent Ops - observability, evals, and optimization * OpenRAG - end-to-end RAG context interface system * Astra, Cassandra, and OpenSearch databases - vector and hybrid search data retrieval

Education

• UCLA

  MA, Mathematics

  2005 — 2007

• University of Colorado Boulder

  BS, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

  2000 — 2005

• UCLA

  Ph.D., Mathematics

  2007 — 2011

Skills

• Numerical Analysis
• Machine Learning
• Scientific Computing
• Mathematical Modeling
• Management
• Social Media
• Computer Vision
• High Performance Computing
• Image Processing
• Data Science
• C
• Programming
• C++
• Computational Physics
• Distributed Systems
• Simulations
• Strategic Planning
• Mathematics
• Matlab
• Product Management
• Python