The Team Behind FREQ AI
Built by people who understand both the water and the technology.
Leadership
Dre Alvarez
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Former maritime cargo operations professional with direct experience in barge drafting, terminal operations, and inland waterway logistics. Combining firsthand industry knowledge with expertise in AI systems architecture, Dre founded FREQ AI to solve the operational challenges he witnessed daily — bringing autonomous intelligence to an industry ready for transformation.
Slidell, Louisiana
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We're Building the Team
FREQ AI is in active growth phase. We're looking for exceptional people who want to build technology that transforms a critical industry.
AI/ML Engineer
Build the intelligence models that power autonomous cargo measurement and analysis.
Maritime Operations Specialist
Bridge the gap between maritime industry expertise and autonomous system design.
Simulation Developer
Create high-fidelity digital twin environments for maritime operational training and demonstration.
Partnerships
Strategic Ecosystem
FREQ AI is built on an open-source core with strategic technology partnerships that accelerate development while keeping costs an order of magnitude below legacy alternatives.
NVIDIA Inception
GPU COMPUTE & SIMULATION
Access to GPU credits, Omniverse Enterprise licensing, and DGX compute for agent training and physics simulation via Isaac Sim.
Google Cloud
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Core cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud G4 VMs. Immersive Stream for XR deployment enables URL-based access to digital twin visualization on any device.
Eclipse Ditto
DIGITAL TWIN FRAMEWORK
Open-source Digital Shadow engine providing persistent live vessel state representation — the foundation of the FREQ AI intelligence layer.
InfluxDB
TIME-SERIES DATA
Full voyage history and AI training dataset storage. High-throughput time-series database purpose-built for sensor telemetry at fleet scale.
Bargetender
SENSOR HARDWARE
Radar draft sensor integration via 4-20mA/RS485 protocols. Their sensors see. FREQ AI thinks. Hardware partner, not competitor.
PlayCanvas
REAL-TIME 3D VISUALIZATION
Real-time browser-based simulation scenes that translate live vessel telemetry into clear operational context for demos, training, and evaluator review.