Alex Ripperton
Software Engineer
I specialize in building backend systems for applications that leverage generative AI. I'm passionate about finding new and creative ways to orchestrate data streams to give LLMs the context they need to create better user experiences.
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My Projects
AI Health Coach
I led the engineering effort to integrate an AI Health Coach into the Milwaukee Bucks Health & Wellness app. Our AI agent pulled users' exercise and nutrition history via existing app APIs and could take actions on the user's behalf, such as logging meals and exercises. We deployed the agent with both text and voice options using Gemini, OpenAI, and Eleven Labs for voice synthesis.
Automated Calorie & Nutrition Logging
Leveraged OpenAI vision models to enable meal tracking through image uploads. Our system used LLM processing to analyze ingredients and portion sizes from uploaded images, then passed this data to the USDA API to generate accurate nutritional metrics including calories, carbs, fat, and protein.
Admin Analytics Dashboard
I led the backend development of an analytics dashboard used by physicians to manage and monitor patients taking GLP-1 medications. The dashboard included AI analytics features with generated summaries that analyzed patients' exercise and nutrition histories, creating digestible reports for physicians to quickly assess patient progress.
Database Fallout Scripting
As an HCL Software Engineering Consultant I worked with a large telecommunications company to automate various large scale data corrections caused by bugs in their Eshop platform. I have worked on dozens of automation projects that have saved our client company thousands of hours of L2/L3 customer service work.
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