Alex James
Computer Science and Statistics Student at the University of Virginia
About Me
Bio
- I'm a born-and-raised Houstonian currently living in Charlottesville, Virginia pursing my B.A. in Computer Science and Applied Statistics with a Data Science Concentration (plus a minor in Latin).
- I'm deeply curious (and often obsessive) in everything I do, a relentless hard-worker, quietly personable, and I've always found leading by example to be the most effective means of inspiring others.
- My time is constantly being split between family, friends, school, passion projects, watching random YouTube videos, and touching grass (i.e. leaving my room).
Goals
- Education: B.A. in computer science and statistics (M.A.?, M.B.A.?, P.H.D.? - we'll see where life takes me, but I intend to be a life-long learner)
- Career: the freedom to apply my technical skills in areas that interest me most and eventually pursue some kind of leadership position
- Life: happy family, close friends, career success, global travel, invaluable experiences, and ultimately personal fulfillment, however that may manifest itself
Passions
- Computer/Data Science: data engineering, data analysis, machine learning, cloud computing, software engineering, web development, and game development
- Music: electric guitar, bass, collecting vinyl records, live music, Spotify, Album of the Year
- Sports: rock climbing, running, soccer, basketball, fantasy sports, sports trivia, and sports video games
- Games: video games, logic puzzles/puzzle games, trivia games, and honestly anything remotely competitive
Resume
Professional Experience
Hilcorp Energy Company - Operations IT Data Analytics Intern
Created $500,000+ in estimated long-term value through machine learning/data science analysis (2024), and optimized Databricks jobs achieving ~45% runtime improvement (2025), and implemented mathematical solutions for 10,000+ wells (2025)
Technical Skills
Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, R, C, SQL, HTML/CSS
Frameworks/Libraries: Pandas, Scikit-Learn, Matplotlib, Beautiful Soup, Node.js, Tailwind CSS
Tools/Technologies: Git, GitHub, Databricks, Power BI, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, PowerPoint, Excel
Leadership & Activities
UVA Hoo's Ultra Running Team: Co-founded trail running club with ~40 members
UVA Slacklining Club: Co-founded club with ~150 members
Volunteer Work: Teaching Python to middle schoolers, SAT/Latin tutoring
Full Resume
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Word Frames
An addicting word puzzle game where players attempt to create the best 5x5 grid of words given random letters (huge multi-page update coming).
Latin Texts Scraping
My dive into web scraping, taking hundreds of the most popular Latin texts and performing/visualizing a word frequency analysis in a Power BI report.
Wizard Tournament and AI Agent (IN PROGRESS)
An implementation of the card game Wizard used in a friendly strategy-bot tournament and for training a multi-agent reinforcement learning (DQN) model.
Automated Weekly Dashboard (COMING SOON)
A personalized Notion dashboard that pulls from a variety of sources and updates weekly via Python scripts scheduled using Apache Airflow.
Contact
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GitHub
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My personal instagram where I (very rarely) post life updates through pictures.