Alec Dino — Software Developer & Certified Ethical Hacker

From concept to launch.

The one project I'm actively building on right now.

Open in GitHub ↗

Currently Building AI / LLM Summer 2026

KOTOBA — AI Japanese Flashcard Trainer

Full-stack spaced-repetition trainer with RAG-powered semantic search and LLM-generated grammar breakdowns on the Cohere API — SM-2 scheduling, Anki .apkg import, Pydantic-validated JSON contracts, and a zero-cost mocked-API pytest suite.

Python · FastAPI · SQLite · Cohere API · RAG · Vanilla JS

From classroom to contract.

AI Trainer

Jul 2026 – Present

Handshake AI — Remote · Independent Contractor

▸Audit AI model outputs against source material for hallucinations, unsupported claims, and reasoning errors.

▸Document every finding in structured technical write-ups that feed back into model training.

▸Ranked in the top 10% of contributors on the current project.

E-Commerce Development Specialist

Aug 2025 – Feb 2026

TC Medicore — Las Vegas, NV · Independent Contractor

▸Wrote C++ optimization algorithms for inventory allocation, reducing overstock and understock incidents by 30%.

▸Built JavaScript and AI-assisted automation around Excel-based workflows, turning daily inventory reconciliation from a manual chore into a reviewed report and saving the team 20+ hours a week.

▸Built and customized Shopify storefront features in HTML, CSS, and Liquid that lifted conversion by 50% within 12 weeks.

▸Authored SOPs and redesigned packaging and fulfillment workflows, then led the team using them to 200% higher throughput.

Front-End Developer

Jun 2025 – Aug 2025

Freelance — Remote · Independent Contractor

▸Freelanced for multiple clients, from music artists to small businesses, owning each build end to end: requirements, design, development, and deployment.

▸Shipped every site with responsive Flexbox and Grid breakpoints for mobile, tablet, and desktop.

▸Built accessible navigation with ARIA attributes, keyboard support, and visible focus states, plus reusable header/footer components to keep each client's branding consistent across pages.

▸Best live example: siopaolo.com, with a full write-up in Projects.

Founder & Owner

Jan 2024 – Sep 2024

DinoSales — Amazon Storefront · Las Vegas, NV

▸Founded and solo-operated DinoSales, an Amazon storefront, treating it like a software problem from day one.

▸Analyzed competitor pricing, sales-rank trends, and fee structures to rank products by projected margin before sourcing anything.

▸Automated repricing, inventory monitoring, and order tracking with custom scripts and bots, cutting manual processing by 12+ hours a week.

▸Drove $10K+ in revenue in Q2 2024 — where I learned that code which touches money has to be correct.

From lecture halls to certifications.

FALL 2026 — EXP. 2028

M.S. in Computer Science

University of Nevada, Las Vegas · Machine Learning and AI

AUG 2021 — MAY 2025

B.S. in Computer Science

University of Nevada, Las Vegas · Dean's List · Honors

Analysis of Algorithms, Operating Systems, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity & Forensics.

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

EC-Council · May 2025

Cloud Foundations

AWS Academy · December 2024

From code to real life.

The stuff that doesn't fit on a résumé.

Professional Nerd

Geeking out over Star Wars, anime, and superheroes, and the rabbit holes that come with them.

Bay Area Native

Repping the Bay since day one, a lifelong Warriors fan through the titles and the rebuilds alike.

Fitness Guru

Chasing the training process, the science behind it, and the discipline it builds into everything else.

I make things work — then I make them work well.