Alex N. · New York, NY

Software Engineer at Amazon; previously Google and Wise. Former IOI and ACM ICPC contestant. Outside of work: LeetCode, FPGA tinkering, and a stack of personal projects.

Selected work

6 featured
Luluclass — online English tutoring with real teachers and an AI tutor

Luluclass

2025–2026

Online English tutoring — real teachers from $5/hr, plus a 24/7 voice AI tutor called Lily.

live React · Spring Boot · FastAPI
Reflect.ee — AI news platform homepage

Reflect.ee

2026

News for Estonia in three languages — Estonian, Russian, and English, refreshed every five minutes.

live React · Node.js · Claude Haiku
time.ee — world clock and sun times

time.ee

2026

A clean world clock — local time, sun times, and the cities you actually care about.

live Next.js · TypeScript · suncalc
Firmaotsing.ee — search Estonian companies by name, registry code, or person

Firmaotsing

2026

Natural-language search over the Estonian business register (RIK).

live Next.js · Python · Postgres
ForesightHub — UN/humanitarian early-warning signals world map

ForesightHub

2026

A live situational map of UN and humanitarian agency signals around the world.

active Next.js · Claude · framer-motion
LearnPath — pick a subject and follow the path from basics to mastery

LearnPath

2026

Bite-sized learning paths with live code, math, and realtime chat.

active React · Vite · Tailwind

More projects

4 others

USA Running Races

2026

A searchable directory of running races across the United States.

live Next.js · Docker · AWS CDK

Sport Arbitrage

2025

Cross-bookmaker odds-scanning system for finding sure-bet opportunities.

archived Java · Spring Boot · Gradle

Auto Advertiser

2026

A scheduler that runs multi-account ad campaigns on X, end-to-end, in the browser.

active Python · Playwright · APScheduler

Let's Write Chess

2025

A book on building a chess engine from scratch — alongside the engine itself.

wip TypeScript · pnpm workspaces · Jupyter Book (Sphinx)

Games

A side track for learning Godot, modern C++, and the part I've been most curious about lately — multiplayer game architecture: netcode, physics simulation, client-side prediction, interpolation.

MouseRace — mouse character on a forest level with shaman-placed crates and planks

MouseRace

2026

Real-time multiplayer mouse-racing — Transformice-style — with server-authoritative physics and a shaman role.

wip Java · Spring Boot · Spring WebSocket (STOMP)
GTA2-style top-down driving game — red car at an intersection

GTA2

2026

A from-scratch top-down city game — driving, pedestrians, NPC traffic — in C++ and raylib.

wip C++17 · raylib · CMake
SVG Platformer — character on a Harlem street at night

SVG Platformer

2026

A 2D side-scrolling action game in Godot, set in stylised New York.

wip Godot 4.6 · GDScript · SVG art

Learning

practice, problem sets, FPGAs

FPGA experiments

2026

Going down to the gates — Verilog projects on Alhambra-II and iCEstick boards.

ongoing Verilog · Alhambra-II · iCEstick

HDLBits

2026

Working through the HDLBits problem set in Verilog.

ongoing Verilog · digital design

Advent of Code

2015–

Yearly tradition — solving Advent of Code in Java.

ongoing Java

LeetCode

286 problems solved in Java and Scala — and counting.

ongoing Java · Scala