# Alex Chang

## Overview

- Edition: Vol. 3
- Location: Shanghai, China
- Headline: I BUILD THINGS WITH AI.
- Introduction: MBA. AI Builder. Vibe Coder. From hospitality & real estate to shipping AI-powered products — fast.
- Focus: Shanghai, AI-Native Dev, Prompt Engineering, Product

## Background

- Role: BUSINESS OPERATOR → AI PRODUCT BUILDER
- Career path: HOSPITALITY → REAL ESTATE → AI
- Background: Started in hospitality and real estate investment — industries built on relationships, timing, and execution.
- AI development: Then I discovered the leverage AI development gives business professionals.
- Current work: I build AI-powered web products from scratch with modern AI tools, turning ideas into shipped products fast.
- Current mission: Building at the intersection of AI, real estate, and entrepreneurship.
- Status: ALWAYS SHIPPING

## Education & Certificates

- Education: MBA — Cornell & CEIBS
- Certificate: Claude Certified Architect
- Certificate: IBM Product Manager

## Skills

- Prompt Engineering: Instructing models with precision and intent.
- AI-Native Workflows: Building with agents in the loop, end to end.
- Product Lifecycle Management: From spec to ship, and everything after.
- Evals: Measuring what the model actually does.
- Financial Modeling: Numbers that survive contact with reality.
- Data Analytics: From raw exports to decisions.
- Market Research: Finding the signal before the crowd does.
- Business Strategy (MBA): Framing the right problem before solving it.
- Vibe Coding: Shipping fast without losing the craft.

## Selected Works

### AXON

- Status: LIVE
- Description: Company website for Axon, an AI solutions studio. A hand-crafted static site with a disciplined design system — one accent color, Inter and DM Mono type, zero framework overhead.
- Tech stack: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Vercel
- URL: https://www.axonai.to/

### AI DAILY

- Status: LIVE
- Description: A Claude Code skill that fetches today's AI news, YouTube videos, and X.com posts across dozens of sources, then generates a bilingual (English + Chinese) HTML newspaper in two design styles.
- Tech stack: Claude Code Skill, Python, HTML/CSS
- URL: https://github.com/jazzleg66/AI-Daily

### SPLIT FLAP DISPLAY

- Status: LIVE
- Description: A browser-based Solari split-flap display — characters cycle through a mechanical spool sequence with hardware-accurate timing, making any screen feel like a 1970s airport departures board.
- Tech stack: JavaScript, CSS
- URL: https://splitflap.cc

### AI MOCK INTERVIEWER

- Status: LIVE
- Description: Vera is an AI interviewer who preps you to land the job. She reads your resume and target job description, runs a tailored mock interview, and delivers specific feedback on your answers — so you walk in ready, not anxious.
- Tech stack: Claude API, Next.js
- URL: https://vera-interviewer.onrender.com/

### MBA APPLICATION MENTOR

- Status: IN PROGRESS
- Description: An AI mentor that guides candidates through every stage of the MBA application — from school selection and essay strategy to interview prep. Built on a RAG pipeline grounded in top admissions resources, so the advice is specific, sourced, and actually useful.
- Tech stack: RAG, Claude API, Next.js

### PORTFOLIO SITE

- Status: LIVE
- Description: This website. Built with Next.js 14 and a vintage broadsheet design system.
- Tech stack: Next.js, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript
- URL: https://alexwcchang.vercel.app/

## Contact

- Email: s996639@gmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwcchang
- GitHub: https://github.com/jazzleg66