Alex Albert
Resident Prompt Engineer at Anthropic
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Albert is a product-minded research manager and developer-relations engineer with eight years of experience building developer tools and prompting workflows for large language models. Based in San Francisco, he has held consecutive roles at Anthropic from Prompt Engineer to Head of Developer Relations and now Research Product Manager, helping teams and third parties integrate Claude into real-world workflows. He blends full-stack development skills with API integrations—evidenced by adding Brave Search-powered web search and function-calling examples to the widely used anthropic-cookbook—to make LLMs more useful and grounded. Alex’s background includes internships at Google and Capital One and a BA in Computer Science from the University of Washington, reflecting a pattern of shipping practical productivity tools for engineers and users alike.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of WashingtonHigh School, High School at Wenatchee High School
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Github Skills (7)
apim10
jupyter-notebook10
api10
ant10
python10
webscraping9
multimodal8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
anthropics/anthropic-cookbook
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
A collection of notebooks/recipes showcasing some fun and effective ways of using Claude.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 61 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alex added a third-party integration to the "anthropic-cookbook" repository, specifically demonstrating web search functionality using the Brave search engine. This involved creating a notebook that leverages the Brave Search API to retrieve search results and integrate them with Claude for question answering, highlighting the user's ability to connect and utilize external APIs to augment Claude's capabilities. The launch of additional content also included examples of function calling and using Haiku as a sub-agent.
anthropics/courses
Jun 2024 - Nov 2024
Anthropic's educational courses
Contributions:15 reviews, 9 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 months
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