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
Ann Arbor, MI
- Software Engineer (Part-time)Sep 2026 - Present
- Software Engineer InternOct 2025 - Apr 2026
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
Remote
- Software Engineer (Part-time)Jul 2026 - Present
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
Remote
- Founding Software EngineerMay 2026 - Present
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
New York, NY
- IT Infrastructure InternJun 2024 - Aug 2024
Automated new-machine setup and user data migration, and moved users onto a new remote access system.
Projects
SkyLedger
Jul 2026 - Present
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.com ↗Autonomous Off-Road Perception System
Hyundai America Technical Center (HATCI), Michigan MDP
Jan 2026 - Present
Designed a vision-based perception pipeline for soft road boundary detection in unmarked off-road environments
PythonPyTorchOpenCV
Phantom
Nov 2025
Developed a bot to automate Clash of Clans gameplay, leveraging PyAutoGUI to precisely carry out in-game actions
PythonYOLOv11PyAutoGUIOpenCV
github.com/alexhowden/phantom ↗AutoCal
Aug 2025
Built an AI-powered calendar assistant enabling users to easily manage events through natural language queries
PythonLangGraphGoogle Calendar APIFastAPIReact
github.com/alexhowden/AutoCal ↗Chef
Oct 2026 - Present
Built 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
chef.alexhowden.com/try ↗
More
Notes
A Finder-style reader for my course notes: sortable, tag-filtered, with math and diagrams rendered inline.
Subway Surfers
68,300,000 (3.18%)
One run on its way to 2,147,483,647 points, the 32-bit integer limit and the highest score the game can hold.