Hello! I'm Alex, a -year-old studying Computer Science.
I have ~ years of experience programming in
Python, Java, and C++, and am also familiar with Swift, Lisp, and Prolog.
My preferred development environment is a JetBrains IDE + IdeaVim.
I have experience in algorithms and data structures, software engineering, and AI (Distributed Learning, Explainable AI, Natural Language Processing, Agentic Large Reasoning Models).
I am deciding between pursuing a career in software engineering or entering into computer science + AI research.
I live in Dallas, Texas, and homeschool with Mother of Divine Grace School.
I enjoy competitive programming, speech and debate, playing chess, and studying Latin.
I also used to play ice hockey, but I have a little sister who plays AAA Boys on the Dallas Stars Elite
(Her YouTube Channel).
Feel free to reach out about anything - I'd be glad to connect!
Accomplishments
My first solo research paper, "iOS as Acceleration", was accepted into the NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Efficient Reasoning in my highschool junior year;
I gained experience in the research and submission process and contributed to the double-blind reviewing process too.
I took my first internship ending my highschool sophomore year as an Enterprise Tech Software Engineer @ State Farm for Summer 2025.
I promoted to the USACO Gold Division in Feb. 2025 as a high school sophomore;
the previous year I had promoted to Silver as a freshman in my first USACO contest in Dec. 2023, placing 1022 out of 9707 pre-college competitors worldwide.
My first NCFCA Team Policy Debate Tournament in Jan. 2024 went well as I went to Quarterfinals w/ my partner William Kuykendall, placing 8th out of ~42 teams overall.
The following year I was ranked 2nd Team Policy Speaker out of ~110 competitors at the first National Mixer tournament of the 24-25 season.
I developed my FRC robotics team's scouting software which went to the World Championships twice, in 2024 and 2025.
I co-taught the programming section of a local STEM summer camp for underprivileged youths in 2023.
In 9th grade while reading MIT's SICP,
I wrote my own Lisp interpreter from scratch (PyLisp GitHub).
I built a widely-used web application to automatically format evidence for my debate club
(NCFCAAutoEvidencer).
