Hi, I'm Alex.

Georgia Institute of Technology

B.S. Computer Science, Concentrations in Media and Modeling & Simulation GPA: 3.58 Expected May 2029

Interests

Chess Graphic Design Accordion

Projects

Built and deployed a live tournament platform used by the Atlanta Checkmate Club, the largest social chess club in the Southeast, to run events for 300+ weekly players; reduced tournament director overhead by over 1.5 hours per event.
Shifted check-in and match result reporting from the tournament director to players themselves, replacing a manual bottleneck with self-service submissions that update the bracket and standings in real time.
Designed a continuous pairing engine that seats each board the moment its matchup is determined rather than at round boundaries, eliminating between-round idle time and increasing physical table utilization at peak attendance.
Architected the tournament engine as a pure, JSON-serializable module behind a format-agnostic interface, allowing new formats (single and double elimination) to ship without changes to server or UI code.
Enforced privacy by construction: player contact data is stripped from every real-time broadcast and leaves the server only through a single authenticated export endpoint.

Co-built a full-stack daily puzzle game on the MERN stack, owning scoring, leaderboard ranking, and session management.
Developed the React game interface for navigating between Wikipedia pages and tracking progress against the daily challenge.

Developed based of 21 user stories which helped me build real-world functionality
Used a lean development approach and worked off the textbook 'Django 5 for the Impatient'
Users purchase and review movies, while editing their reviews and reporting inappropriate ones, all on their own account

Georgia Institute of Technology

Aug 2026 – Present

Selected as a second-year TA for a 600+ student course covering data structures, algorithm design, and asymptotic analysis.
Lead a weekly recitation section of ~30 students, delivering instruction on course material and exam preparation.
Hold weekly office hours and grade assignments and exams, giving written feedback on implementation and complexity analysis.

Aug 2026 – Present

Develop machine learning algorithms to help Shimon, the robotic marimba improvisationalist, interact with human players in physical space.

Aug 2025 – Present

Operate live broadcast equipment for Georgia Tech's student-run radio station, reaching thousands of daily listeners across Atlanta.
Diagnose and resolve equipment failures on air under time pressure; maintain the station's song and operations logging with a student team.

Atlanta, GA