I'm Alex Lu! 👋

Blockchain Enthusiast · CS Undergrad Student · AI Researcher

About Me 🚀

I'm a Computer Science student at the University of Waterloo (Class of 2027). I’m passionate about decentralization, AI, and building real-world tools that make a difference. I’m actively involved in:

• UW Blockchain Club as a technical executive, helping run events such as Coffee and Code to bring Waterloo students on-chain
• CS Club Project Program as a blockchain mentor, advising freshman students on building web3 projects for the program
• Applied AI Research as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in Dr. Edith Law's Augmented Intelligence lab.

I thrive on innovation and collaboration—there’s nothing quite like brainstorming, coding, and shipping products that push boundaries. Thats why I love hackathons, and have 10+ around world!
Devpost: https://devpost.com/alexlu2000clash

Work Experience 💼

• Coinbase (May – Aug. 2025)
  Incoming Software Engineering Intern on the Base Ethereum L2 infrastructure team in San Francisco

• Coinbase Asset Management (Sep. – Dec. 2024)
  Software Engineering Intern in Stamford, CT

  • Built new smart contracts for an RFQ system using Foundry, EIP-712, ERC-20, and UniV4 hooks on Base
  • Developed a Bloomberg Excel plugin equivalent for onchain instruments (15,000+ data points) using React, Webpack, TypeScript
  • Deployed an indexer with The Graph, AssemblyScript, PostgreSQL, Docker on CB Diamond

• University of Waterloo AI Lab (Apr. – Aug. 2024)
  Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Fine-tuned Meta’s SeamlessM4Tv2 model for medical translations with Torchrun on AWS Sagemaker + S3

• University of Waterloo HCI (Jan. – Apr. 2024)
  Research Developer Intern

  • Led development of a newcomers app (in partnership with Ontario Health and Meta)
  • Published an internal React Native UI library with 25+ WCAG-compliant components
  • Enabled multilingual app support (10+ languages) via i18n JSON schemas

Notable Projects 🏆

• dBeats

  • Cross-chain MP3 NFT minting with Solidity, Hardhat, IPFS, ERC-721, Ethers.js, React
  • Awards: Best use of Polygon zkEVM, Quicknode NFT API, FIL/IPFS, and Worldcoin at ETHGlobal NYC 2023

• Web3Warfare

  • Physical laser tag game with onchain events, bounties, and token rewards
  • Awards: Best Technical Integration of Sign Hooks, Best Immersive Gaming with Dynamic.xyz at ETHGlobal SF 2024

• Wotion.co

  • Open-source library of widgets for Notion, with 5,000+ users and 70+ GitHub Stars
  • Built using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Axios, MongoDB, Next.js, Chakra UI

Super excited to hack at ETHDenver! ✨