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xphoniex/README.md

Hi! I'm Dave 👋

Work 💼️

I'm an entrepreneurially minded engineer that like to takes ideas from concept to completion. Building startups has helped me refine my fullstack dev skills and consulting for big fintech companies has helped me get a better understanding of ops side and best SRE practices, both in terms of systems building as well as human interactions with the system.

Recent work:

  • Founder & CTO - Langolin - a language learning app
    • Built a custom NLP engine to help with tasks such as alignment of phrases, quality check, etc
    • Designed a very low cost yet robust infra without any significant outages
    • Node/Express, MongoDB/Redis, Nginx, Python/Tensorflow/Torch
  • SRE & Consultant - a German publicly listed fintech
    • Part of on-call team
    • Helped bring best practices to increase velocity and bring visiblity to metrics that matter
    • Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana, Thanos/Cortex, Terraform, Azure/GCP

Interests 🎲️

Intersection of AI 🤖️ and Games 🎮️ is what I'm particularly interested in. I used to play Poker and Go but nowadays I play Dota 2 occasionally.

Interestingly, all three mentioned games have been disrupted by breakthoughs in ML in recents years:

I've tried replicating the works above in following repos:

Tech stack 💻️

  • Node.js with Koa/Express for backend and React for frontend
  • Python for general AI/ML as well as occasional server purposes
  • Rust for high-performance code
  • And others depending on use case

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  1. Google-Foobar Google-Foobar Public

    Google Foobar challenge 2017

    Java 55 30

  2. alphazero-quoridor alphazero-quoridor Public

    Training an agent to play Quoridor from scratch using AlphaZero

    Python 2 2

  3. icmp-rust icmp-rust Public

    Implementing ICMP in Rust from scratch

    Rust 24

  4. tests-setup-teardown-rs tests-setup-teardown-rs Public

    Rust 1

  5. dota2-lasthit dota2-lasthit Public

    🤖 Dota 2 Lasthit simulator with PPO DeepRL Agent

    Python 4

  6. Corsairs-Bot Corsairs-Bot Public

    Corsairs is a Telegram-based game and we're trying to beat it!

    C++ 4 3