hi! i'm alex, and i'm a cs major @ purdue university. when i'm not coding,
you'll probably find me hooping or spending time outdoors.
thanks for taking the time to
check out my page, i'll be updating it from (hopefully) time to time,
documenting my work and other hobbies!
i'm always open for a chat and hearing about new opportunities. feel free to reach out below :)
Experience
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SWE Intern @ Databricks May 2026 - Aug 2026
Query Optimization · Autobricks
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SDE Intern @ Amazon Web Services May 2025 - Aug 2025
Storage + Query Optimization · Redshift
Research
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Determinstic Indexing in R Trees @ Purdue Sep 2026 - Present
Creating a new technique to make R tree operations deterministic
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Serverless Computing @ UPenn Aug 2025 - Present
Asynchronous etcd backend storage layer in Kubernetes using DynamoDB streams
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Regularization & Web Scraping @ Purdue CS Jan 2025 - Aug 2025
Wrote scripts & researched new regularization techniques!
Projects
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Sentinel · 1st overall at HackTech (Caltech) GitHub
A tool to help determine optimal security camera placements
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Veritas · 1st in track at Catapult AI hackathon GitHub
A platform ensuring open source research integrity
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Spectra GitHub
Video pipeline for detecting danger in real time
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Functionary GitHub
A tool to help developers visualize complex codebases
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BoilerGuess GitHub
Geoguessr but make it Purdue-themed