Dick's Sporting Goods | Georgia Tech MCS

Alex Witkowski

Experience

Software Engineer

@ Dick's Sporting Goods

June 2025Present | Pittsburgh, PA

  • Architected cross-platform scheduling features using React, .NET, and React Native, optimizing workforce management.
  • Integrated production ML recommendation models into e-commerce shopping carts and search engines.
  • Engineered end-to-end RAG pipelines utilizing Elastic Agent Builder to streamline data retrieval for L2 support applications.
  • Developed a data-driven athlete performance framework for a 6-store golf pilot program, integrating Trackman and Fenris analytics to capture, process, and visualize real-time swing metrics.

Scrum Master

@ Sheetz

May 2024May 2025 | Pittsburgh, PA

  • Facilitated Agile ceremonies for 5 cross-functional IT teams, balancing roadmaps with resource management constraints.
  • Spearheaded technical capacity planning and resource allocation strategies for FY2025 project pipelines.

Software Engineering Intern

@ Sheetz

May 2023Dec 2023 | Pittsburgh, PA

  • Collaborated within a fast-paced R&D team to engineer a data-driven MVP, building a scalable system to process and aggregate large-scale data from Teradata to support strategic research and analysis.
  • Built a React front-end application with ChartJS to provide intuitive data visualization, delivering actionable insights to stakeholders, and provided technical support to executives for seamless application adoption.

R&D Software Engineer Intern

@ B. Braun Medical Inc

May 2022Dec 2022 | Allentown, PA

  • Led a key contribution to re-architecting a real-time data platform, scaling the system to support a distributed network of 40,000 IoT endpoints (infusion pumps) across multiple facilities.
  • Developed Python scripts with Microsoft Azure Translation API to localize the platform into German, Spanish, and Italian.

DevOps Engineer

@ University of Pittsburgh

Aug 2021Apr 2022 | Pittsburgh, PA

  • Modernized backend services for the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, streamlining operations and ensuring long-term reliability.

Projects

Frody.co

Architected a distributed, real-time fraud detection system leveraging a streaming data pipeline (Kafka) and large-scale data processing (BigQuery).

  • Best Distributed Systems Hack' at PennApps 2024
  • 'Most Technically Complex' at PennApps 2024
KafkaBigQueryPythonGCP

PLAY'r

Prototyping an application that leverages a large language model (Google Gemini API) for dynamic content generation, exploring the practical integration of foundation models into user-facing games.

TypeScriptGoogle GeminiVitePartyKit

Cinect

Created a Google Cloud-based app using ML to aggregate Letterboxd data for group movie recommendations.

GCPPythonMLBigQuery

FlightAdvisor

Designed a full-stack flight cancellation and pricing prediction app using linear regression.

PythonFlaskTailwindDocker

Idea-Pad

AI-powered research and project planning desktop app built with Tauri v2, React, and Gemini AI for rapid ideation and prototyping.

TypeScriptTauriReactGemini

pickles

Pittsburgh pickleball court availability tool — a public utility app serving the local community with real-time court data.

Next.jsBunTailwindVercel

Education

M.S. Computer Science

Georgia Institute of Technology

AI Concentration

20242026

Relevant Coursework: AI for Robotics, Game AI, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge-based AI

B.S. Computer Science

University of Pittsburgh

School of Computing and Information

20202024

Skills & Tools

Languages

PythonJavaC#TypeScriptJavaScriptSQLC

AI / ML

PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learnPandasLarge Language ModelsGoogle Gemini APIRAG

Systems & DevOps

AWSGoogle Cloud PlatformDockerKafkaPostgreSQLCI/CDRedis

Frameworks & Tools

ReactReact NativeNext.js.NETFlaskFastAPIFlutterTauri

Let's Connect

I'm always open to interesting conversations, collaborations, and opportunities.