“I had the pleasure to work closely with Alex at Peerless for many years. He has deep understanding of industrial engineering concepts. Also he was a team member of multi continuous improvement projects. His strong teamwork and collaboration skills helped foster a positive and productive work environment leading to successful project outcomes. He always brought a positive energy and a can do attitude. His knowledge of programming was a great asset since he worked in automating some of the non value added steps to improve efficiency and reduce process variation. Additionally, he has great communication skills. I would highly recommend him for any organization. ”
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Software developer capable of building full stack web applications. Communicative and…
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Happy Friday!! It has been a long time that i posted anything. If anyone makes or sells Saas please contact me. Im working on something and need some…
Happy Friday!! It has been a long time that i posted anything. If anyone makes or sells Saas please contact me. Im working on something and need some…
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📢Wow Databricks University Alliance Workshop (WiDS Chicago) getting hands-on with a full end-to-end Lakehouse + ML + GenAI workflow — from raw…
📢Wow Databricks University Alliance Workshop (WiDS Chicago) getting hands-on with a full end-to-end Lakehouse + ML + GenAI workflow — from raw…
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Education
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Northern Illinois University
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• Team Lead for Baja Racing Team
• Representative for Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers
Volunteer Experience
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Volunteer Staff
PAWS Chicago
- Present 2 years 7 months
Animal Welfare
Play with, socialize, train, and care for homeless pets in the Chicago area.
Projects
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Education Royale Gaming (https://educationroyalegaming.com)
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• Worked closely with client on UI/UX for small business website to attract investors
• Used Next.js static site generation (SSG) to maximize search engine optimization (SEO)
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LiftShark - Health & Fitness Application (https://www.liftshark.org)
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• Built Vue.js client and Node.js webserver to log and monitor workout activities
• Used Pinia to manage global state and sync with local storage to persist data across sessions
• Used Vuetify material UI library for a rich and engaging user experience
• Created RESTful API and retrieved results client-side with MongoDB, Express.js and Node.js
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MakeDrink - Cocktail Recipe Application (https://makedr.ink)
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• Built a server-rendered drink recipe application with Next.js, a React framework
• Queried a Golang backend to retrieve recipes from a SQLite database
• Used Redux Toolkit to cache database queries and minimize fetch calls
• Used hashmap data structures to improve search function and cut page load time by 50%
• Performed unit testing on components with the Jest testing framework and React Testing Library
Honors & Awards
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University Honors Program
College of Engineering & Engineering Technology (CEET)
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