Alex Boquist
Prompt Engineer at Scout
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Boquist is a prompt engineer with a decade of software engineering experience, currently shaping conversational AI at Scout from Charleston, South Carolina. He moved into prompt engineering after leading teams as Lead Software Engineer at Sovereign Co., pairing hands-on coding with product and project management across startups and healthcare tech. His background spans backend and frontend work—including a co-founded music-distribution web app—and a track record of fast-paced engagements like a stint at PostgresML. Trained in computer science at the College of Charleston and reinforced by focused JavaScript and front-end certifications, he blends academic fundamentals with practical, modern web and AI tooling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges user needs and engineering constraints to ship impactful features. He brings entrepreneurial instincts from founding D45 to mission-driven product work in both startups and established teams.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Front End Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Front End Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampComputer Science, Computer Science at College of CharlestonJavascript, Javascript at Jack Russell Software IC Coding School
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Github Skills (33)
artificial-intelligence10
javascript10
classification10
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search10
huggingface-transformers10
forecasting10
regression10
sql10
knn10
clustering10
postgresql9
python9
llm9
machine-learning9
vector-database9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
buda-base/buda-volume-manifest-tool
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
BUDA volume manifest editing tool
Contributions:92 commits, 49 PRs, 47 pushes in 1 year
editingvolumemanifest
aplchian/intouch
Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:17 PRs, 77 pushes, 12 branches in 8 months
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