Alexis is Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer @ Swarm, an AI platform and global ecosystem of developers and solution integrators accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
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Swarm
CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF DESIGN OFFICER
We assemble elite GenAI teams from MAANG, IBM, and YC startups to help Fortune 100s and scaling enterprises ship copilots, agents, and automation tools—faster than internal teams can hire.
Tatler Gen.T
GEN.T AWARDEE PHILIPPINES (2025)
Future-proofing your business involves adopting technological innovations, which can be daunting for some. Alexis Collado co-founded Swarm as an AI-driven platform that connects founders with skilled professionals drawn from a referral network. With some of the best AI specialists on call, Swarm has the chops to deliver the software you need to scale up and accelerate growth.
Fractional by Swarm
HOST AND PRODUCER
Interviewing the top fractional designers, engineers, product people, and marketers. Spotlighting the movers and shakers in the freelancer industry.
Specter
DESIGN COACH
Coaching for aspiring early-stage product designers and for those attempting to do a career transition.
UX+ Conference
ORGANIZER
Co-founded the largest UX conference in SE Asia. Started with 1300+ paid attendees (2019). Scaled to 2400+ (2020), and featured world-class designers like Julie Zhuo. Spoke about my journey to design-cofounder in front of 2000+ attendees during the UX+ 2023 Conference.
Roots
HOST AND PRODUCER
Ranked Top 2 on Apple Podcasts (Design, Philippines), the Top 200’s on Spotify, and was featured by net magazine (December 2019 issue). 100+ episodes with world-class Filipino designers.
Before
YouTube
CONTENT CREATOR
I post videos about design, startups, and covers of songs I like. It’s mostly to help new designers out (it’s extremely hard to transition to design, I know!) and release some pent up musical energy :P
On Deck
DESIGN FELLOW
I’m part of the second On Deck Design Fellowship. I was selected and attending with a curated group of 75 designers in the design management track. Gotta learn to be a good manager!
Dashlabs.ai
DESIGN CONSULTANT (YC W21)
Making diagnostic lab software for emerging markets pretty and functional. Logo work featured on TechCrunch.
Kalibrr
SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER (YC W13)
Led design for enterprise squad and north star projects; represented the product design function in the company (2018-2021)
UX Society
CO-FOUNDER / FOUNDING PRESIDENT
Started the first student UX club in the Philippines at Ateneo de Manila University (2015-2018)
Stanford ASES
ASES SUMMIT ALUMNI
Immersed in Silicon Valley, toured IDEO & Stanford d.school, pitched a startup to VCs
UX Philippines
CORE MEMBER
Event management, front-end development, photography (2017-2018)
Edukasyon
PRODUCT DESIGN INTERN
User acquisition design work, design workshops
Agoda
PRODUCT DESIGN INTERN
Joined a 40+ strong world-class design team at Bangkok — early-stage vision work for sorts and filters; shipped usability improvements to sidebar widget
NuWorks
UX DESIGN INTERN
Affective testing for agency clients, design internal tools
Interests
Mentoring
Spending time helping people start their design careers is very important to me. I have a lot of pride for the people I’ve mentored and how their career turns out :)
DoTA 2
I usually play every night with friends or co-workers. I prefer playing the mid lane with Invoker, Meepo (I’m level 30), or Broodmother. My highest rank was Ancient II, but I’m just Legend 2-4 these days. Check my DotaBuff
Badminton
I play almost every day! I train twice a week, participate in queueing matches with different groups of people, and just generally love the competition.
Photography
I like taking portraits of friends, and interesting landscapes. I also love taking photos during the golden hour.
People
Meeting new people with different skills, hobbies, and interests other than mine, that help expand my perspective.
Music
I started playing guitar when I was around grade 3. I’m a decent singer, newbie percussionist + bass player + and MIDI keyboard player. Check my SoundCloud!
Anime
I like Shounen in general, OP characters in Isekai worlds, good music, and a bit of Seinen! Favorites: Death Note, Code Geass, Black Clover, HxH, Erased, Haikyuu, Dragon Ball Super, Food Wars, Yowamushi Pedal ++