Alex Pawelko

Pure Mathematics and Computer Science student interested in differential geometry (and lots of other things) living in Waterloo, Canada.

About Me

I'm a Pure Mathematics major and Computer Science minor (formerly double major) at the University of Waterloo who does a lot of math and coding. I fell in love with math and programming when I was 11 through video games. My professional programming experiences include game development (both standalone and modding), desktop software, and backend web development. Outside of programming, I'm highly passionate about mathematics and I'm planning to pursue graduate work in the future. I'm generally interested in all math I've seen thus far, but am especially interested in differential geometry and topology. In particular, my experiences with geometric analysis and complex geometry have been very exciting!

Projects

Hagnus Miemann & badchessengine

Two of the strongest chess playing programs in the world (ranked at ~200th and 432nd) in the world. badchessengine supports the Universal Chess Interface, whereas Hagnus Miemann features an interactive UI.

RankedCvC

Ranking system (using Glicko2) for various competitive Minecraft gamemodes used to play dozens of games in multiple communities every day.

Squad Assault

Counter Strike inspired gamemode within Minecraft, initially created for the Mineplex community.

Podcrash Play (formerly Podcrash+ and BetterMP)

Third-party Minecraft client initially designed for competitive play, featuring statistics tracking, optimizations, dozens of quality of life mods, a referee system, and support for almost every Minecraft setup. Initially a personal project (known as BetterMP) until it was acquired by Podcrash after reaching over 250,000 downloads.