Hi I am Alexander!
I am a data analyst/developer between San Francisco and Vancouver. Founder of Paipu Labs.
I am a data analyst/developer between San Francisco and Vancouver. Founder of Paipu Labs.
Born and Raised in Vancouver BC, I am an outdoor enthusiast and interested in the intersection between humanity and technology. I was educated in civil engineering and business, but have always been interested in computers and helping people find solutions to their technology problems. In my life I would like to use technology to help solve some of humanities problems like pollution and education.
IoT 2-factor Authentication - DeveloperWeek Hackathon Winners - 2-factor auth service for IoT.
As a team of 2, we built and launched a python based SDK that allows users to easily use Flowroute SMS service to provide 2-factor authentication for Amazon Alexa or Google Home or other voice activated IoT devices. The project was selected as the winning project out of nearly 200 teams.
Exploratory Data Analysis - Exploring the Titanic Survivors list with Python and Pandas.
As part of the Udacity Data Analyst course, I used Python and the well known library Pandas to compute some statistics and show some different visualizations in order to show correlations in passenger attributes and survival rate.
Paipu Labs - Data Analysis and Data Engineering
Out of the demand for experts who can develop and help manage data pipelines, my interest in automation and data analysis, I founded Paipu Labs. Paipu Labs is a group of data scientists and data engineers who apply machine learning algorithms and data analysis techniques to business data sets in order to automate decisions and provide insights.
Volunteer Consulting - Social impact data gathering and analysis for a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) solar company Azuri
The primary lighting source for rural African families are Kerosene lamps, which are dangerous, dirty and not very effective. Azuri's PAYG solar allows families to pay a small upfront fee and then a recurring weekly fee to purchase a solar system. As part of the organization Planete d'Entrepreneurs, I worked with Azuri to understand their business and then traveled to Kenya to assess the social impact that their product had on the families. Along with another volunteer, we developed metrics to quantitatively assess the impact and also to assess the effectiveness of the distribution network used to sell and support their product. We presented our findings which were ultimately used by the company to secure further financing and increase awareness of the company's mission.
Algorithms and data structures - python code written to explore different algorithms and data structures
As part of my own curiosity and for a university course that I took while completing my masters in management, I created many different programs that use the object orientated concepts of abstraction, encapsulation and inheritance. The programs use link lists, queues, stacks, binary search trees, sorting algorithms amongst others to complete tasks or play games.
Ruby on Rails - Trip mash is a rails application that lets users share trips to do activities they like
Trip Mash was made with the popular Rails framework. The application uses bootsrap as the css,html framework and integrates with the google maps API to display trip pickup locations. The application uses the ruby gem devise for authentication and allows users to follow each other and message each other in the app. This was my first application as part of a general assembly back end web development bootcamp in 2014.