Hi, I'm Alex 👋
ML Engineer at ZenML | Based in Delft, Netherlands
I build tools for machine learning operations and open-source infrastructure. Before tech, I spent 15+ years as a researcher and historian working in Afghanistan — a career that taught me to find patterns in complexity and communicate clearly across domains.
What I'm working on
- 🔧 ZenML — Open-source MLOps framework for reproducible pipelines
- 📊 LLMOps Database — 1500+ real-world production LLM case studies
- 🌍 awesome-balochi-nlp — NLP resources for an underserved language
Published author
- 📘 DeepSeek in Practice (2025) — Fine-tuning, distillation, and prompt engineering for open-source LLMs
- 📚 6+ books from my historian days, including edited Taliban memoirs and oral histories from Afghanistan
Tech I work with
Python PostgreSQL AWS Docker LLMs MLOps
Writing
- 🌐 alexstrick.com — Longer-form essays and reflections