Alex Hamidi
Engineer currently running SDxUCSD, building software, and making music.
I try to reason deductively whenever possible and enjoy the company of passionate people.
I believe that the purpose behind everything we do should be as explicit as possible, and that creation is the primary purpose of humanity.
I'm excited about:
- Latent diffusion architectures and how DiT scaling, classifier-free guidance, and noise scheduling affect output aesthetics in practice.
- Neuroscience, neurotech and BCIs. They combine many of my biggest interests: computation, intelligence, consciousness, and philosophy.
- Automation through web agents that can navigate the open web as a first-class interface.
In the past, I've:
- Founded and sold two small GovTech companies
- Won state-level college programming competitions
- Backpacked 100 miles in Afghanistan with distant relatives
work
Palantir
2026Incoming Production Engineer. I am ideologically aligned with the work I expect to do here.
Clado
2025-08People search engine contribution: designed concise DSL and fine-tuned LLM query generator with RL for superior performance.
AWS
2025A collection of automation scripts for AWS infrastructure. Handles provisioning, scaling, monitoring, and teardown of cloud resources with minimal configuration.
APSS
2025Agentic Program Search System - a framework for composing LLM systems by searching over program spaces. Combines code generation with evaluation to find optimal agent architectures.
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