Alex Picon

M.S. Computer Science · Georgia Tech · AI

Alex Picon

I’m doing my master’s in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, specializing in AI. It started with sneakers and streetwear at 12, and reselling at 14. Now I build AI products end to end, and in my free time I’m teaching robots to do things.

Alex Picon

My story

Age 12 to now

  1. Age 12 · 2016

    The hoodie that was “worth thousands”

    My first purchase ever was a gray and red Box Logo hoodie, bought at retail price straight from Supreme’s website. I thought it was simply a great hoodie. At school, people kept telling me it was worth thousands, and my reaction was a shrug: meh.

  2. Age 14

    From my closet to bellevueplug

    By fourteen I was selling my own clothes to pay for new ones. It took a little while to notice that the money was real, and once I did, I stopped treating it as a hobby and built a business around it. I called it bellevueplug.

  3. 2018 to 2024

    Six figures, built on bots

    Over those years bellevueplug grew to six figures in yearly sales at high margins, sold through online marketplaces, Instagram and local customers, with my own bots helping me secure pairs at retail. I also ran a small studio building bots and apps for other resellers, and my first bot was InfoBots, built in high school: Python monitors that watched sneaker stores for drops, restocks and price drops and pinged our Discord.

    Marketing cost me almost nothing. I handed out stickers and business cards at school and at sneaker conventions I traveled to, and everyone at school stuck them on their laptops, so the name spread on its own. Loyal customers got bellevueplug merch. Most of my profit came from my bots buying pairs at retail and selling them on StockX and GOAT. Still, I never stopped buying from and selling to people directly, because even then I knew that building relationships, and keeping them, was how I would learn and grow. I genuinely enjoyed it, too. Some of those people I still talk to today.

  4. 2018 to 2021

    A programming class with no computers

    I missed Peru, and I knew how privileged I was to grow up around technology and then move to the US. So I taught Programming with Pen and Paper, a free course in Spanish over WhatsApp for 200+ students, teachers and parents, written as pseudocode on paper with no computer required. Peru is a hard country to leave, especially without money, and I wanted to hand people knowledge that helps them move forward.

  5. 2022 to 2026

    An app for my own campus

    While earning my B.S. in Computer Science at Seattle U, I built the university’s official iOS app, sponsored by the VP of IT and live in the App Store for the entire student body. I demoed it to my classes several times. People were excited, and they were generous with honest feedback, which I valued just as much.

    Seattle U iOS App (opens in a new tab) ↗

  6. 2026

    A season of hackathons

    This year I started doing hackathons, and I’ve done a handful so far. Hearsay took 1st place in the NSA track at HackGT 13, and Carta Clara took 2nd at AWS Hacks, and two more earned honorable mentions. I’m hoping to travel to many more.

    See what I built

  7. 2026 to now

    Georgia Tech, AI and robots

    Today I’m pursuing my M.S. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech, specializing in AI. Outside of class, I’m teaching robots to do things.

What I’ve built

AI products, apps and hackathon builds.

15 projects

  • HearsayReal voice or synthetic? Get a score.AI · HackathonHackGT 131st place · NSA track

    Scores how likely a voice recording is AI-generated, from 0 (real) to 1 (synthetic). It had the lowest error of all entries on the hidden test set.

    Solo build

    View on GitHub (opens in a new tab) ↗
    Live listening game (opens in a new tab) ↗

  • NextAnswerRehearse the interview before it counts.AI · AppsBETA

    Practice interview questions out loud, or by typing for free. It asks real follow-ups, catches filler words, scores your answers on STAR, and tells you what to fix. Paste a job listing and it builds a prep report with the kind of interview you’ll get. Built for students who don’t have someone in the industry to call before a big interview.

  • Seattle U iOS AppThe university’s app, built by a student.Apps

    I 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.

    View in the App Store (opens in a new tab) ↗

  • Carta ClaraScary English mail, in plain Spanish.AI · HackathonSeattleU × UW AWS Hacks2nd place

    Turns scary English mail into plain Spanish, with a deadline and next steps.

    Solo build

    View code on GitHub (opens in a new tab) ↗

  • SlablyScan a card. See its likely grade.AI · AppsBETA

    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 EDRRun the attack. Does the rule catch it?IN DEVELOPMENT

    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 one of Falco’s own rules.

  • Incident CompilerPostmortem promises, finally built.IN DEVELOPMENT

    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.

  • WisePicksThe honest number, not the flattering one.AppsPersonal tool

    An honest World Cup match predictor with no betting odds anywhere, on purpose. When it looked overconfident I ran a calibration study and published the real number, not the flattering one.

    wisepicks.app (opens in a new tab) ↗

  • FigsterFinish the album. Trade your duplicates.AppsPersonal tool

    A companion app for the World Cup sticker album. Log your packs, see what you’re missing, and trade duplicates with friends.

    figster.app (opens in a new tab) ↗

  • KeeperYour family’s stories, illustrated and narrated.AI · HackathonHackGT 13

    Spoken family memories turned into illustrated, narrated storybooks.

    Solo build

    View on GitHub (opens in a new tab) ↗

  • Climate RewindYour address, every weather event since 2000.AI · Apps · HackathonForgeHacks 2026Honorable mention

    Type an address, see every weather event that hit it since 2000.

    Solo build

    climaterewind.com (opens in a new tab) ↗

  • SceneuronLive signs and cards on your video call.AI · HackathonMHacks 2026

    Live signs and cards on video calls, raised with a Stream Deck, gestures or voice.

    Team build

    View on Devpost (opens in a new tab) ↗

  • SafeShiftYour security cameras, now spotting hazards.AI · HackathonQuackHacks 3.0

    Existing security cameras plus Gemini flag workplace hazards.

    Team of 3

    View on GitHub (opens in a new tab) ↗

  • Second LookOne true fact before the money leaves.HackathonHuskyHack 2026Honorable mention

    Pauses a suspicious payment and shows the member one true fact from the credit union’s own records, before the money leaves.

    Team build

    View on GitHub (opens in a new tab) ↗

  • Powerlifting Form CoachFilm your bench. Check your form.AIPersonal tool

    A mess-around project that checks your bench-press form from video. Basically done.

Technologies

Languages

  • Swift
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Rust
  • Python
  • C++
  • C#
  • Kotlin
  • Dart
  • SQL
  • HTML
  • CSS

Frameworks

  • SwiftUI
  • Next.js
  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Tauri
  • Flutter
  • ASP.NET
  • Node.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Drizzle ORM
  • React Query
  • Zustand

AI & APIs

  • Anthropic Claude
  • Google Gemini
  • OpenAI
  • Deepgram
  • Google ML Kit
  • Supabase
  • Stripe
  • REST APIs

Tools

  • Git
  • Xcode
  • VS Code
  • Android Studio
  • EAS Build
  • Expo CLI

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLite
  • SwiftData
  • MySQL

Outside of code

  • Robots

    I’m learning robotics the direct way: I bought robots and robot arms, and now I have to figure them out.

  • 405 lb

    Away from the screen, that’s what I bench.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

M.S. Computer Science, AI specialization
2026 – PresentAtlanta, GA

Seattle University

B.S. Computer Science
2022 – 2026Seattle, WA
  • Dean’s List
  • President’s List
  • Achievement Merit Scholarship

Let’s connect. Tell me what you’re building.

alex@chaski.ai