Axel VandenHeuvel
Boulder, CO, United States0
Recent CS Graduate From CU Boulder | Prev. Tenet Healthcare
Computer Science student at CU Boulder with hands-on experience building AI systems, cloud infrastructure, and native mobile apps. Currently working on vision-language models for spacecraft at NASA JPL.
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VLMs for Deep Space Spacecraft - NASA JPL Senior Capstone Project
Currently collaborating with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop an open source software library to run and evaluate VLMs for deep-space spacecrafts.
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Local Dictation App for macOS
Speech-to-text app with fully local AI, no cloud required
Built and shipped a macOS speech-to-text application via Homebrew with entirely local processing. Runs NVIDIA's Parakeet v3 speech model on the Apple Neural Engine at approximately 50x real time, then refines the transcript using Apple's on-device foundation model, deterministic cleanup rules, and fuzzy user-vocabulary correction.
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Lift-Tracker iOS App
Native weightlifting tracker with progress charts and PR detection
Shipped a native weightlifting tracker to the iOS App Store featuring calendar-based logging, reusable workout templates, a 154-movement library, and per-movement progress charts with automatic weight and rep PR detection.
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GraphRAG Knowledge System
Hybrid vector/graph RAG desktop app with 3D knowledge graph visualization
Co-built a hybrid vector/graph RAG desktop application (team of 4) that ingests notes in Markdown, PDF, and Notion formats, extracts and canonicalizes concepts with an LLM, and renders them as an interactive 3D force-directed knowledge graph inside a brain mesh. Stabilized the FastAPI backend with shared Kuzu engine, per-request connections, and async endpoints. Built the ingestion pipeline with PDF/zip upload, duplicate detection, Notion importer, and a Milkdown WYSIWYG editor.
Experience
Student Assistant
University of Colorado Boulder Environmental DesignMay 2024 — May 2026 · Boulder, CO
Cloud Solutions / Azure Intern
Tenet HealthcareJun 2025 — Aug 2025 · Dallas, TX
Reclaimed unused Microsoft 365 and Azure licensing through automated audit and analysis pipelines, contributing to $500K in projected annual cost savings. Integrated DocuSign API to automate compliance reminder workflows. Built PowerShell automation to detect misconfigurations and manage entitlement workflows across 10,000+ users.
Building Management Student Assistant
University of Colorado Boulder Environmental DesignMay 2023 — Aug 2023 · Boulder, Colorado, United States
Cashier
Woodman's Food MarketsMay 2022 — Aug 2022 · Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States
Education
University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Aug 2021 — Jun 2026
GPA: 3.66/4.0, Computer Science GPA: 3.96/4.0
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Skills
Raspberry PiAgile MethodologiesLinuxPowershellMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft 365Application Programming Interfaces (API)IT systems developmentCross-team CollaborationC++Python (Programming Language)JavaScriptHTMLCascading Style Sheets (CSS)SQLVS code