Alex Newman
Special Events Coordinator
San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlex Newman is a veteran founder and distributed-systems engineer who co-created hCaptcha/Intuition Machines and previously co-founded Ohmdata, bringing proven experience building and scaling ML labeling, security, and distributed database platforms used by billions. He blends hands-on engineering, architecture, and hiring with a deep background in computer security—co-authoring CLASP (now part of OWASP) and winning multiple DEFCON CTFs—while also contributing two decades to open-source projects like Linux, FreeBSD and serving as an Apache Committer. Currently based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he focuses on ML model training, proof-of-humanity systems, and the labor dynamics of ML training, and advises early-stage startups to help them avoid hard-won pitfalls. Pragmatic and unafraid of messy technical challenges, he has a track record of shipping core infrastructure (from HBase forks to realtime SQL on HBase) and moving between research, product, and operational roles.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree CS, Bachelor’s Degree CS at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (15)
extraction3
python3
pdf3
mupdf2
pdf-files2
poppler2
text-extraction1
similarity-search1
search-engine1
kaggle1
neural-search1
indexing1
lda1
retrieval1
database1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
alnew/UW_volunteers_2019
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:62 commits, 61 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
alnew/507_Final_Project_YelpTicketMaster
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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