My name is Alex and I am a software engineer based in Seattle, WA. This website will be where I host some personal projects I am working on and my professional experience.
As a fan of college football, I wanted to create my own algorithm for ranking the 136 FBS teams. The algorithm is closed source, but has some unique ideas like giving no weight to preseason rankings and not counting wins against FCS teams. Every day at 6 AM Pacific Time the rankings are updated with the previous day's games. At the beginning of the season, the index might have some questionable takes but it will likely start to converge with the AP Poll and CFP rankings by the end.
A React web app for creating custom power hours. This currently integrates with Spotify and is a really good time. This will likely never be fully public, so please reach out if you want to join the private beta.
I've trained a model to pick college basketball games straight up based on both teams stats. This initially started as a way to help me pick my bracket but I have expanded it to regular season games as well. It is trained on data going back to 1985. Picks will be updated daily during the season at 6 AM PST. Please do not use this to gamble as it is not that good yet.
I was curious what the most often played blunders (bad moves) are in chess. I wrote a python project that analyzed the Lichess games database (over 800 million games) to find these moves.