Hi, my name is
Alex Leung
Software engineer and writer.
I build software, write notes, and make small tools for understanding systems and AI.
What you'll find here
I keep essays, notes, and small project writeups here: software engineering, system design, AI, product work, and learning.
I tend to write from the practical edge of those topics: what I tried, what held up, where the tools helped, and where the rough edges stayed visible.
Latest Writing
Camping Indoors in San Francisco
April 27, 2026
My first week in San Francisco has mostly been logistics, empty rooms, cats, and the slow work of making enough space to focus.
Relearning Through Small Interactive Tools
April 10, 2026
Using a coding agent to build small browser tools turned out to be a good way to revisit concepts I had not touched in a while.
Dropout as Implicit Bagging
March 7, 2026
Chapter 7 gave me a better model for dropout: a cheap approximation to averaging many thinned networks with shared parameters.