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

2026

Incoming Production Engineer

Clado

2025-08

People search engine contribution: designed concise DSL and fine-tuned LLM query generator with RL for superior performance.

AWS

2025

Built automation infrastructure to standardize regional onboarding of AWS services, cutting manual configuration steps by 40% and deployment time by 35% across 20+ regions.

APSS

2025

Agentic Program Search System - a framework for composing LLM systems by searching over program spaces. Combines code generation with evaluation to find optimal agent architectures.

projects

writing

music

Landfall

Landfall

reading