Alston Drew Devero-Belfon

Welcome to my digital space!

                     I'm a Full Stack Software Engineer/Product Engineer/AI Engineer and Researcher. Honing my skills and learning new languages. Always ready to create and collaborate. I’m also a classically trained, opera singing, actor, so I love telling stories and engaging others using my voice, physicality, and code!

Shared Studios - Noro

I was responsible for supporting software & hardware development special projects:

  • Write code that integrates and dictates the functionality of sensor, voice user interface, and generative AI technology for new enterprise products.

  • Connect the company with other innovative technology companies to accomplish product goals.

Tri-Sense

My hand motion tracking project: MVP - A dictionary look up app with returning word, pronunciation(written form), part of speech, and vocal file giving auditory example of pronunciation. Accessibility level considered adequate as determined by Axe Accessibility. Stretch goal - detect hand position, relate to American Sign Language alphabet, pull words from Merriam Webster's Dictionary API and provide functionality to sign out words and return them as audio and text. Made with JavaScript (boot strapped with React, including Machine Learning with Tensorflow.js - MediaPipe and FingerPose), Java (with Spring Boot), HTML, CSS and PostgreSQL.

CUNY, Blackstone, & L’OréaL 2024 Innovation Sprint WIN

Team Dive won First Place in the The City University of New York x Blackstone 2024 Innovation Spirit challenge.

Our concept and prototype for L'Oréal’s Biolage brand, combined the engagement of pop-ups with non-profits, bringing the environmentally conscious elements/high quality ingredients of the haircare product range directly (in person and virtually via an integrated, QR code accessible, AI chatbot with voice user interface) to the diverse range of people that they serve.

I’m very proud of my talented teammates, Diomenne Diakite, Giovanni Ollivierre, Nathalia Lampkin, Dalvany Charlot, and Ying Tsang.

Smart Eats

I developed an e-commerce site for Smart Eats brand using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and WordPress plugins. This includes the designs provided for usability when creating functional versions of the design concepts. This includes performance boosting, SEO boosting, and security boosting work.

COI Energy - KW for Good

At New Lab via the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation:

  • Maintained external-facing website

  • Built/improved UI/UX

  • Supported design of new Optimizer platform and mobile app

  • Supported enhancement of “kW for Good” product

  • Supported Machine Learning development

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Millennial mancala

My twist on a version (there are multiple, as Mancala is one of the oldest games still widely played today) of the board game, Mancala. Play against the computer or play, locally, against another player. Made with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (vanilla and jQuery).

 

I am a very detail oriented person with a superior work ethic. My focus is to continue using technology to develop creative and practical work that benefits the daily lives of people.

My years of academic and work experience at small and large non-profit and for profit businesses indicates that I possess a strong record of work as a Software Engineer. my programming capability includes Product engineering, AI engineering, and research: primarily writing in Javascript (including utilization of React, react native, expo, Axios, jquery, three.js), python (including data science and visualization work), Java (including spring Boot), and database design (SQL and PostgreSQL).

I also possess a great deal of experience working in the arts and business management with proficiency in various Microsoft Office programs and Adobe PDF software.

 

Ready for creative collaboration!

 

Contact me for Innovative/Creative Conversation