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Alex Picon

I build AI apps.

Alex Picon

SOLO FOUNDER · LV. 22

CS graduate from Seattle University, now doing my master’s at Georgia Tech. Building since 2018: a little dev studio, a six-figure side hustle, now AI apps. Business and AI are the two things I never stop thinking about. I enjoy talking to people and hearing what they’re building.

Always down to talk shop. Send a raven.

alex@chaski.ai

TROPHIES

  • SIX-FIGURE BUSINESSSTARTED AT 14
  • B.S. COMPUTER SCIENCESEATTLE U · 2026
  • SHIPPED MY UNIVERSITY’S APPAPP STORE · LIVE
  • TAUGHT PERU TO CODE200+ STUDENTS · PEN AND PAPER
  • MORE TO COMEALWAYS BUILDING

EDUCATION

Georgia Institute of Technology

M.S. Computer Science
2026 – Present Atlanta, GA

Seattle University

B.S. Computer Science
2022 – 2026 Seattle, WA
  • Dean’s List
  • President’s List
  • Achievement Merit Scholarship
RELEVANT COURSEWORK 16
  • Design & Analysis of Algorithms
  • Data Structures
  • Object-Oriented Development
  • Fundamentals of Databases
  • Software as a Service
  • Mobile Software Development
  • Web Development
  • User Experience Design
  • Computer Graphics
  • Software Engineering & Project Development I/II/III
  • Computing Systems
  • Languages and Computation
  • Computer Organization
  • Discrete Mathematics
  • Probability and Statistics
  • Linear Algebra
ACTIVITIES 3
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Club for AI & ML
  • Engineers for a Sustainable World

Newport Senior High School

High School Diploma
2018 – 2022 Bellevue, WA

SKILLS · 42 TOTAL

LANGUAGES 12
  • Swift
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Rust
  • Python
  • C++
  • C#
  • Kotlin
  • Dart
  • SQL
  • HTML
  • CSS
FRAMEWORKS 12
  • SwiftUI
  • Next.js
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Tauri
  • Flutter
  • ASP.NET
  • Node.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Drizzle ORM
  • React Query
  • Zustand
AI & APIs 8
  • Anthropic Claude
  • Google Gemini
  • OpenAI
  • Deepgram
  • Google ML Kit
  • Supabase
  • Stripe
  • REST APIs
TOOLS 6
  • Git
  • Xcode
  • VS Code
  • Android Studio
  • EAS Build
  • Expo CLI
DATABASES 4
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLite
  • SwiftData
  • MySQL

ACTIVE QUESTS

4 IN PROGRESS

NextAnswer

AI interview coach
BETA

Paste a job listing and practice the interview out loud. It researches the company, predicts the kind of interview you’ll get, asks real follow-ups, then scores your answers and tells you what to fix. Built for students who don’t have someone in the industry to call before a big interview.

Slably

AI card grader
BETA

Scan a Pokémon card and get an instant estimated grade and value across PSA, CGC, TAG and Beckett. It also organizes the rest of your collection: virtual binders, set tracking, and live market prices so you always know what everything’s worth.

Linux EDR

Which security rules actually work?
WIP

Companies run hundreds of security rules on their Linux servers and nobody really knows which ones work. I went through 754 public ones and not a single one comes with real numbers. So I’m building a way to test them: run the attack, see if the rule catches it, and if it doesn’t, figure out why. It’s already caught a hole in a rule people use in production.

Incident Compiler

Learn from the outage, automatically
WIP

After an outage, the team writes a postmortem, promises to add a check so it never happens again, and then nobody has time to build it. This builds it for them. It reads the postmortem, writes the check, and tests it against the actual code that broke and the code that fixed it. If it can’t prove the check works, it says so instead of guessing.

SIDE QUEST · NEARLY DONE

Powerlifting Form Coach

Bench-press form · CV + pose estimation
Side quest, coming soon. SOON

A mess-around project that checks your bench-press form from video. Basically done. I ship it whenever I feel like it.

SHIPPED

5 COMPLETE
  • Seattle U iOS AppI built my university’s official mobile app, sponsored by the VP of IT. Live in the App Store for the whole student body: events, campus map, dining hours, and rec schedules.
    SHIPPED
  • Carta ClaraTurns scary English immigration mail into plain Spanish, so people actually know what it says and what to do next. Built at a hackathon.
    SHIPPED
  • SafeShiftTurns a workplace’s existing security cameras into a live hazard detector. Built in 24 hours at a hackathon, and it watches the situation, not the people.
    SHIPPED
  • WisePicksAn honest World Cup match predictor with no betting odds anywhere, on purpose. I even tuned it down when it got overconfident.
    SHIPPED
  • FigsterMake your own World Cup posters and stickers.
    SHIPPED

PAST CAMPAIGNS

WASP TECH · 2018–2024
  • SneakerBroA sneaker-collection app I built during the reselling run. Inventory, prices, and drop alerts wired into my own scrapers.
    2018–22
  • InfoBotsPython scrapers that tracked sneaker drops and restocks in real time. I ran a paid Discord community of 450+ members on top of it. My longest-running project.
    2018–2024
  • SplashrAn AI photo-discovery Android app I built for a class. Natural-language search and an LLM-ranked feed.
    ARCHIVED
  • Programming with Pen and PaperA free coding course I taught in Spanish over WhatsApp to 200+ students, teachers, and parents in Peru. Pseudocode on paper, no computer needed.
    2018–2021