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Alexei Brown

ALEXEI BROWN

Software / AI Engineer — Sensor Intelligence, RF, Computer Vision & Edge Systems

Sydney, Australia · contact via email · download PDF for full contact

qalarc.com/projects · linkedin.com/in/alexei-brown · github.com/fivelidz

Engineer building real-time sensor-intelligence and edge-AI systems: an SDR/RF intelligence platform (HackRF/Airspy capture → real-time DSP demod → GPU Whisper STT → searchable archive), a wearable ISR computer-vision pipeline (multi-face recognition + custom-trained ONNX demographic models at 30fps), and a 30B-parameter MoE LLM deployed 100% on an iGPU with zero cloud dependency. Australian citizen, no sponsorship required, clearance-eligible. Comfortable across the full stack — from DSP and signal capture through to ML inference on constrained hardware.

Technical Skills

Languages
Python (primary) · JavaScript / TypeScript · SQL · Kotlin / Java (Android) · Familiarity with C / C++ and Go
AI / ML
PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn · pandas, NumPy, signal-processing pipelines · Deep learning, attention / transformer architectures · Computer vision (OpenCV, MediaPipe, ArcFace) · NLP, text classification, embeddings, LLM integration · Model evaluation, benchmarking, ablation studies · Behavioural intelligence over time-series sensor streams
Sensor & Signal
Software-Defined Radio — HackRF / Airspy / RTL-SDR panoramic scanning, RF spectrum analysis · Real-time DSP: decimation, phase-continuous VFO mixing, anti-alias filtering (rfai-dsp library, 18 tests) · Live waterfall/spectrum visualisation, demod pipelines (WFM/NFM/AM/SSB), RMS-based VAD · Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) — scanning, fingerprinting, GATT exploration, protocol analysis · Wearable / phone sensor fusion (sleep, HR, HRV, accelerometer, rPPG) · Real-time inference on noisy, incomplete, adversarial data · Speech: Whisper STT (GPU-accelerated via faster-whisper/ROCm), voice activity detection
Infra & MLOps
Linux (Arch / CachyOS / NixOS) day-to-day · Docker / containerisation · Git, GitHub, automated CI/CD · OAuth 2.0 implementation · Cloud: Azure (Data Factory, Databricks), GCP (BigQuery), Cloudflare (Pages/Workers) · Edge / on-device inference: Ollama, ONNX Runtime Web, ROCm, quantised models
Robotics & HW
MediaPipe-based gesture / hand / face tracking pipelines · Servo control (FEETECH ST-3215-C047) on InMoov i2 robotic hand · SO-ARM101 robot arm with MuJoCo simulation + imitation learning · 3D printing for drones, cinewhoops, payload grabbers, perching legs

Experience

Developer Experience Engineer — Sahha · Remote (NZ-based company) · Current

Health Data Intelligence Platform — sensor data → behavioural intelligence

AI Engineer — Hypadrive · Auckland, NZ (remote) · Jun 2022 – 2024

Machine Learning & NLP

Neurotechnology Researcher — Collaborative Academic Projects · 2019 – 2023

AI applications in neuroscience

Legal Researcher (AI Ethics) — University of Newcastle Law School · Jun – Dec 2021

AI Regulation & Ethics

Selected Projects

Live demos and full write-ups on qalarc.com/projects

RFAI — RF Intelligence Platform qalarc.com/projects/rfai-monitor

SDR (HackRF / Airspy / RTL-SDR) → real-time demod → GPU Whisper STT → searchable archive — fully local

Multi-layer software-defined-radio intelligence stack: captures RF across UHF/VHF/HF/marine/aviation bands, demodulates in real time (WFM/NFM/AM/SSB), transcribes voice traffic with faster-whisper on AMD ROCm, extracts entities (callsigns, locations) and archives everything into a searchable SQLite/FTS5 database. The DSP core was extracted into a standalone library (rfai-dsp) with anti-alias decimation, phase-continuous VFO mixing and an abstract SDR backend.

Stack: Python · PyQt5 · HackRF / Airspy / RTL-SDR (SoapySDR) · DSP (rfai-dsp) · faster-whisper + ROCm · SQLite/FTS5

Smart Glasses Face Tracker qalarc.com/projects/smart-glasses-face-tracker · live demo

Wearable ISR: glasses → home computer (face recognition) → phone — custom ONNX demographic models

Real-time computer-vision pipeline for smart-glasses use cases: MediaPipe Face Mesh (468 landmarks), ArcFace recognition, multi-face tracking at 30fps with a persistent identity library — all in-browser. Ships custom-trained 'Folkus' demographic models (2.3 MB INT8 ONNX, running via ONNX Runtime Web) that beat commercial APIs: gender 92.1%, age 5.37y MAE, ethnicity 72.2% across 7 groups. Camera glasses stream to a host computer that recognises faces and feeds AI context back via phone.

Stack: JavaScript · MediaPipe · ArcFace · ONNX Runtime Web · Custom ONNX models · WebGL

GLM-4.7-Flash — Edge LLM Deployment qalarc.com/projects/glm-edge

30B-param MoE LLM running 100% on an AMD iGPU — 38 tok/s, zero cloud

Deployed Z.ai's GLM-4.7-Flash (30B-A3B Mixture-of-Experts, Q4_K_M, ~19 GB) entirely on an AMD Radeon 8060S iGPU via ROCm 7.2. The default 198K-context model OOM'd (KV cache alone needed ~53 GiB vs 32 GiB VRAM); solved by engineering a custom 32K-context variant that brings total memory to ~28 GiB for 100% GPU execution with zero CPU offload. Integrated as the offline fallback for local coding agents.

Stack: Ollama · ROCm 7.2 · PyTorch · GLM-4.7-Flash (MoE) · Model quantisation

Blue Truth — BLE Scanner qalarc.com/projects/blue-truth

Android BLE scanner with device fingerprinting, GATT explorer and Claude AI analysis

Advanced Android BLE scanner: device fingerprinting, GATT explorer, signal traces over time, behavioural pattern detection (proximity, dwell, repeat encounters), and built-in Claude AI analysis of captured BLE data.

Stack: Android · Kotlin / Java · BLE protocols · Time-series analysis

Visual Biomarker Analyzer qalarc.com/projects/camera-biomarkers · live demo

Heart rate, HRV and SpO₂ from a webcam — 100% in-browser rPPG

Browser-based remote photoplethysmography pipeline extracting heart rate, HRV, SpO₂ and stress indicators from regular webcam video. No wearable required — pure signal processing on a noisy real-world input.

Stack: JavaScript · rPPG · Signal processing · Browser ML

chanalyse — Continuous OSINT + Auto-Journalism chanalyse.org

Real-time board scraper → NLP clustering → spike detection → auto-published sourced articles

Full-stack intelligence pipeline that continuously ingests public message boards, runs NLP for topic clustering, sentiment, authenticity and signal detection, flags narrative spikes via z-score detection, and auto-generates balanced, sourced journalistic articles with SEO/OG metadata. Live dashboard with rolling 24h/7d/30d windows; 5,400+ story artifacts and 14 auto-published articles to date.

Stack: Python · SQLite/FTS5 · NLP · LLM article generation · Cloudflare Pages

Qalarc Voice qalarc.com/projects/qalarc-voice

On-device voice-AI stack — TTS, STT and round-trip evaluation

Local voice stack for the qalarc AI-OS: TTS, STT, voice-cloning experiments and a round-trip evaluation harness covering radio-protocol-style edge cases.

Stack: Python · TTS · Whisper · Edge-case evaluation

Education

University of Technology Sydney

Master of Intellectual Property and Patent Law · In Progress

University of New South Wales

Bachelor of Science (Honours), Neuroscience & Pharmacology · First Class Honours

Generation Australia

Data Analytics Graduate Program

Publications & Presentations

Key Competencies

RF / SIGINT SDR capture (HackRF/Airspy/RTL-SDR), real-time demod, transmitter fingerprinting, multi-band monitoring, Whisper STT on signals
Computer Vision / ISR Real-time multi-face recognition, custom ONNX demographic models (gender 92.1%, age 5.37y MAE), 30fps edge inference
Edge AI Deployed 30B-param MoE LLM 100% on iGPU (38 tok/s, zero cloud); ONNX Runtime Web, Ollama, ROCm, model quantisation
Real-Time DSP rfai-dsp library — decimation, phase-continuous VFO mixing, anti-alias filtering; 35–215× real-time throughput
OSINT / Intelligence Continuous data ingestion, NLP clustering, spike/narrative detection, searchable archival (SQLite/FTS5)
Clearance Australian citizen, no sponsorship required, clearance-eligible