Hi — I'm Alex Kurkar, welcome to my site!
I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Nottingham.
I'm focused on compilers, interpreters, and language design,
with a strong interest in machine learning systems, mathematics, and
low-level systems.
I build projects from first principles — no frameworks where avoidable.
The common thread through all my work is understanding things from the ground up.
Current | University
University of Nottingham
BSc Computer Science — compilers, language runtimes, mathematics, competitive programming
& low-level systems
Active | Project
Interpreter
Pascal interpreter & custom bytecode VM with interactive shell — hand-written lexer,
parser, AST evaluator & stack-based VM
Try the live browser demo
(parsing → AST construction → evaluation → optimisation)
Feb 2026 | Hackathon
HackLondon 2026
Built Use-Change Hunter, a real-estate opportunity analysis platform that scores development
potential, risk, and confidence from nearby planning precedents. Placed 1st in the Society Track.
Mar 2026 | Hackathon
START Hack 2026
Built CHAINIQ, an audit-ready procurement agent that converts free-text purchase requests into
structured, policy-aware supplier recommendations with transparent reasoning.
Mar 2026 | Hackathon
BSA EPFL Stablecoin & Payments Hackathon
Built ENS Pay, a Telegram-based crypto payments MVP resolving ENS names to wallet-ready TON
payment flows with wallet connection, payment links, and QR checkout.
Nov 2025 | Hackathon
Rubber Duck Agent
DurHack X project: a local AI coding companion that reacts to git and system activity using
FastAPI, WebSockets, Gemini, Ollama, Python, and JavaScript. Presented at the MLH AI Roadshow in
London later that month.
Oct 2025 | Hackathon
Paladins of Pi
HackNotts '25 project: an LLM-powered medieval fantasy story generator with a frontend UI,
backend prompt pipeline, and Ollama-powered story generation.
18 Oct 2025 | Contest
UKIEPC 2025
Represented the University of Nottingham at the ICPC UK & Ireland Programming Contest as part
of team LockedIn, placing 142nd overall.
Sep 2025 | GitHub
Neural Network
MNIST digit classifier from scratch, added to GitHub — no ML libraries. Manual forward pass,
matrix-based backpropagation & stochastic gradient descent, reaching over 95% accuracy.
Aug-Sept 2024 | Internship
Code Computerlove
Product Development Intern in Manchester, prototyping a consumer-facing application across
Figma, full-stack implementation, agile planning, standups, retrospectives, and user feedback.
Nov 2024 | Archive
Discord Bots
Admin & trading bots built during COVID. Automated moderation, market simulation, and user
economy, later archived on GitHub.
Aug-Sept 2023 | Internship
Cheshire Datasystems Limited
Software Engineering Intern, shadowing hardware and software teams and learning large-scale
system architecture, QA workflows, requirements, testing, and deployment.
Tools & languages: Python C C# Java
JavaScript HTML/CSS React Next.js
FastAPI Flask Node.js Docker Git
NumPy pandas scikit-learn TensorFlow
PyTorch