About
Alex
I study Computer Science at the University of Michigan. I am the founding engineer of Provira, a cybersecurity startup. Outside of work and class, I run, play tennis, and play pickleball. I also play video games like No Man's Sky, Helldivers 2, Subway Surfers.
P.S. I am attempting to reach the highest possible score in Subway Surfers of 2,147,483,647. View my progress
Experience
Bumble Bee Scribe
- Software Engineer (Part-time)
- Software Engineer Intern
An AI-native EHR for small and mid-size practices that automates documentation during patient visits, so clinicians spend less time on paperwork. Built the agent workflow behind each visit and the real-time path that streams visit transcripts into it.
BrowserGuard
- Software Engineer (Part-time)
A browser extension that blocks malicious and phishing sites for enterprise companies. Building the capture tool that saves suites of real phishing pages, so each new version of the detectors can be benchmarked against the last.
Provira
- Founding Software Engineer
An autonomous SIEM engineer for mid-market teams on Microsoft Sentinel, finding ways to cut their costs and widen their security coverage. Built the core of the platform including how each customer's environment is modeled, secure cross-tenant onboarding, and the Azure infrastructure it runs on.
Annaly Capital Management
- IT Infrastructure Intern
Automated new-machine setup and user data migration, and moved users onto a new remote access system.
Projects
Built a live market analytics platform for the Hypixel SkyBlock economy, pushing price updates to every connected client within about a second
PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLReact
skyledger.pxkka.comHyundai America Technical Center (HATCI), Michigan MDP
Designed a vision-based perception pipeline for soft road boundary detection in unmarked off-road environments
PythonPyTorchOpenCV
Developed a bot to automate Clash of Clans gameplay, leveraging PyAutoGUI to precisely carry out in-game actions
PythonYOLOv11PyAutoGUIOpenCV
github.com/alexhowden/phantomBuilt an AI-powered calendar assistant enabling users to easily manage events through natural language queries
PythonLangGraphGoogle Calendar APIFastAPIReact
github.com/alexhowden/AutoCalBuilt an invite-only math practice app that pays real money per correct answer, with passkey sign-in and an admin console for payouts
TypeScriptNext.jsPostgreSQLDrizzle
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