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:
- Improving web/coding agents through RL and scaffolding in order to obviate tedious knowledge work
- Neuroscience, neurotech and BCIs. They combine many of my biggest interests: computation, intelligence, consciousness, and philosophy.
- Latent diffusion models and how DiT scaling, classifier-free guidance, and noise scheduling (among other things) affect output aesthetics in practice.
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
Clado
2025-08People search engine contribution: designed concise DSL and fine-tuned LLM query generator with RL for superior performance.
AWS
2025Built automation infrastructure to standardize regional onboarding of AWS services, cutting manual configuration steps by 40% and deployment time by 35% across 20+ regions.
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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