Alex

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.

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