Alex Cheema
5th Grade Teacher (Westpark Elementary) at Irvine Unified School District
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Cheema is a dedicated 5th grade teacher in Irvine with seven years of experience designing engaging, behaviorally informed classroom experiences that boost student participation and leadership. With a Master's in Elementary Education and a long history running camps and after-school programs, Alex blends classroom instruction with large-group facilitation and program management, including overseeing budgets and staff. Beyond education, Alex contributes to open-source cloud and ML projects—working on AWS CDK S3 metadata and Docker-enabled Lambda builds and implementing a sharded Llama-style model—showing uncommon fluency in infrastructure and distributed ML for an educator. Based in Irvine, CA, Alex brings a rare hybrid of pedagogical insight and technical problem-solving to curriculum design, classroom technology integration, and student-centered behavior strategies.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts, Elementary Education and Teaching, Master of Arts, Elementary Education and Teaching at Point Loma Nazarene UniversityBachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Family & Human Services, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Family & Human Services at University of OregonWoodbridge High School
English
Github Skills (17)
python10
machine-learning10
typescript10
cloud-infrastructure10
large-language-models10
ml10
aws10
amazon-s310
typescript-types10
aws-s310
infrastructure-as-code10
typescripts10
s3-bucket10
dockers9
docker9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
exo-explore/exo
Jul 2024 - Mar 2025
Run your own AI cluster at home with everyday devices 📱💻 🖥️⌚
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:20 releases, 145 reviews, 346 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex made a significant contribution by implementing a "mlx sharded implementation" with an example of distributed inference. This primarily involved the creation of a "sharded_llama.py" file, which defines a modular architecture for a language model. The code changes included the definition of key components like Attention, MLP, and TransformerBlock, indicating a focus on the model's core architecture and operation.
aws/aws-cdk
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the `aws-cdk` repository by implementing and fixing features related to S3 deployments, especially focusing on metadata configurations and system metadata handling. They introduced features for specifying object metadata, fixed bugs related to passing system metadata, and updated tests to validate these changes. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating Docker for the `lambda-nodejs` module, improving build processes and managing dependencies. These modifications demonstrate expertise in cloud infrastructure and AWS services.
development-kitaws-cloudcloud-infrastructureinfrastructurecloud-development
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