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

• 📝 MLOps.systems — Technical writing on ML infrastructure
• 🌐 alexstrick.com — Longer-form essays and reflections