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am7590/README.md

Hi there πŸ‘‹ I'm Alek Michelson

I like to tinker with mobile systems, backend infrastructure, and applied AI/ML.

πŸ’Ό Experience

Bryx – Software Engineer

Worked on mobile applications used by public safety agencies and supporting backend services.

Highlights:

  • Built and maintained production iOS systems used by emergency responders
  • Worked across mobile clients and backend services supporting real-time messaging
  • Contributed to infrastructure supporting mission-critical communications
  • Experimented with building ML pipelines

πŸ€“ Projects

πŸ“± Mobile Development

PlantPal Ecosystem

A native iOS and Android plant care application exploring plant health tracking, reminders, sensor integrations, and backend services.

Highlights

  • Iterated on the PlantPal product across multiple iOS implementations
  • Built supporting backend infrastructure including push notifications and gRPC services for caching responses from various plant APIs
  • Explored cross-platform implementations and service-oriented architectures

Swift SwiftUI Kotlin Rust Android gRPC Postgres APNs

Repos


MushFeed

iOS social media app for gourmet mushroom enthusiasts with backend-driven content feeds and real-time data retrieval.

Highlights

  • Built a mobile client for a instagram-style feed system
  • Explored backend-driven feed architectures and API integration
  • Implemented feed loading, pagination, and content rendering patterns

Swift SwiftUI iOS FireStore/Firebase

⚠️ Warning: This was my first actual programming project and I had no idea what I was doing ⚠️ πŸ”— https://github.com/am7590/MushFeed


Stock Trends Insights

iOS app exploring stock market trend analysis with supporting API.

Highlights

  • Built a financial insights mobile client
  • Integrated with a backend caching API for financial data retrieval

Swift UIKit

Repos


πŸ€– AI / Machine Learning

FinRL Paper Trading Platform

Reinforcement learning trading system that deploys trained agents into live paper trading environments.

Highlights

  • Integrated RL models we trained with FinRL with Alpaca paper trading
  • Implemented live trading loop and evaluation tooling
  • Built monitoring for strategy performance and showed live trading recordings at Imagine RIT 2025

Python FinRL Stable-Baselines3 Alpaca API

πŸ”— https://github.com/am7590/FinRL-Paper-Trading


AssetGraph

Experimental system for modeling relationships between financial assets as a graph structure.

Highlights

  • Built asset correlation and dependency graphs between data sources, analysis nodes, and LLMs
  • Demonstrates graph-based analysis for portfolio insights

πŸ”— https://github.com/am7590/AssetGraph


FinRobot (Fork – AI Club Project Lead)

Multi-agent financial analysis framework using LLMs.

Highlights

  • Extended the framework for custom research agents
  • Added an API wrapper layer around FinRobot to demo a financial report generation chat interface at Imagine RIT 2025

Python LLMs LangChain RAG Chain of Thought

πŸ”— https://github.com/am7590/FinRobot


FinRL (Fork – AI Club Project Lead)

Fork of the FinRL deep reinforcement learning trading library used for experimentation and research.

Highlights

  • Trained multiple reinforcement learning models for trading (PPO, DDPG, A2C/SAC, TD3)
  • Integrated custom environments and datasets and compared results to benchmarks

Python Deep Reinforcement Learning Stable-Baselines3

πŸ”— https://github.com/am7590/FinRL


Evaluation of Object Detection and Tracking Models for Autonomous Vehicles

Research project evaluating object detection and tracking pipelines for AV perception systems.

Highlights

  • Benchmarked multiple detection and tracking architectures for edge devices
  • Implemented evaluation tooling for model comparison

Python Computer Vision Object Detection

πŸ”— https://github.com/am7590/Evaluation-of-Object-Detection-and-Object-Tracking-Models-for-AV-s


🌐 Full Stack / Backend Systems

Finance Data API

Backend services focused on caching, financial data retrieval, and API design.

Highlights

  • Implemented Redis-backed caching layer for financial data
  • Containerized services for reproducible environments

Python Redis Docker API Design

Repo https://github.com/am7590/Finance-App-Caching-API

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  1. PlantPal PlantPal Public

    Keep your plants alive with PlantPal

    Swift

  2. Mushfeed Mushfeed Public

    SwiftUI iOS App

    Swift 2

  3. PlantPal-GRPC-Postgres PlantPal-GRPC-Postgres Public

    Postgres wrapper and gRPC server for PlantPal

    Rust

  4. Stock-Trends-Insights Stock-Trends-Insights Public

    UIKit/Storyboard demo project

    Swift 1

  5. PlantPal-APNs PlantPal-APNs Public

    APNs microservice for PlantPal

    Rust

  6. Finance-App-Caching-API Finance-App-Caching-API Public

    Redis API for Stock-Trends-Insights demo app

    Python