Alex Greason
Software Development Engineer II at Independent projects
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Greason is a Software Development Engineer II at AWS with a decade of engineering experience and dual BS degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics from UT Austin. He focuses on AI and machine learning, driving self-directed projects in deep learning, reinforcement learning, preference estimation, and GPU-accelerated computing, primarily using Python. Alex contributes to notable open-source work—improving LeelaChessZero’s MCTS and performance-sensitive data structures—demonstrating competence with neural-network-driven search. His background includes leading Java-based robotics programming that won a Control Award for autonomous sensor-driven navigation, reflecting practical systems-level and embedded experience. Comfortable spanning research-style experiments and production engineering, he pairs strong mathematical foundations with hands-on implementation across Python and Java.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Midland CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinMathematics, Mathematics at University of Texas of the Permian Basin
Github Skills (11)
deep-reinforcement-learning10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
ai10
game-ai10
chess-engine10
neural-network9
artificial-neural-networks9
algorithm9
algorithms9
uci8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
LeelaChessZero/lc0
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Open source neural network chess engine with GPU acceleration and broad hardware support.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 33 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex focused on enhancing the chess engine's MCTS (Monte Carlo Tree Search) implementation. They introduced a policy softmax temperature option, modifying the search algorithm to incorporate it. Further improvements included optimizing code by removing redundant conditions and reducing the size of the Move data structure. The user also addressed code formatting issues.
pythonrewrittenucichess-enginebackends
AlexGreason/AudioTransmissionSystem
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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