Alexander Brittain

Software Engineer at U.S. Dept. of the Treasury · Tech Force

Previously at PoolCorp, modernizing legacy HR and warehouse systems with .NET, Blazor, and Azure.

Selected work

Local Dictation for Obsidian↗

TypeScriptRustWhisperCohereSilero VADCUDAMetal

Privacy-first dictation plugin for Obsidian. TypeScript plugin shell drives a native Rust sidecar that runs Whisper and Cohere Transcribe locally, with Silero VAD for speech segmentation and optional Ollama post-processing. Hardware-accelerated on Metal (macOS) and CUDA (Linux/Windows). No cloud, no telemetry, no account.

Obsidian GitHub

Wiki Quiz↗

.NET 9ReactAzure Cosmos DBOpenAIPulumi IaC

Scale-to-zero Azure architecture that eliminates idle hosting costs. Integrates OpenAI with Microsoft Semantic Kernel to generate quizzes from any Wikipedia article. React/TypeScript frontend with nine-language i18n and Google OAuth.

Live GitHub

Experience & education

2026 — Present

Software Engineer

U.S. Department of the Treasury
2025 — 2026

Junior Software Engineer

PoolCorp
- Led Blazor WebAssembly + Azure APIM modernization of a warehouse queue system used by 450+ sales centers.
- Built a CQRS/MediatR Web API that automated a critical data import, recouping 15 hours/week for four engineers.
- Sole maintainer of the legacy HR ecosystem — OMS, PortalSearch, and the Workday → HR sync pipeline on Azure Functions.
- Shipped a secure Entity Framework admin dashboard that reduced HR data correction time by 80%.
2024

BBA, Management Information Systems

The University of Texas at Austin
AZ-900Eagle Scout

Skills

Languages

C#PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptSQL

Frameworks

.NETASP.NET CoreBlazorReactEntity Framework

Cloud

Azure FunctionsAPI ManagementContainer AppsDockerPulumi IaCCI/CDCloudflare

Data

SQL ServerPostgreSQLCosmos DB

Tools

Claude CodeCodexMCPVisual Studio

Selected work

Local Dictation for Obsidian↗

Wiki Quiz↗

Experience & education

Software Engineer

Junior Software Engineer

BBA, Management Information Systems

Skills