Learning by
making things.

I’m Alpha Kouanda, a student and aspiring software engineer interested in building useful, thoughtful software.

I am a rising senior at SUNY Old Westbury. Below, you'll find passion projects where I apply what I've learned, including machine learning, to problems and questions I've encountered. Thank you for taking the time to visit.

Things I’ve
been making.

A few projects I’m proud of, with room for video demonstrations and hands-on experiments.

01 / DEMO
Try it yourselfLive demo
Project 0187.88% test accuracy

Art Style Classifier

A visual classifier that tells sketches from rendered artwork.

PythonPyTorchComputer vision

About the project

I built a binary image classifier to distinguish sketches from rendered artwork. The dataset was gathered from Safebooru candidates, manually reviewed, and processed through a repeatable download, manifest, split, and export pipeline.

I compared a custom CNN with ResNet-18 transfer learning. After expanding the curated dataset to 447 images, resnet18_transfer_v2 reached 87.88% test accuracy and macro F1.

02 / DEMO
Project overviewJava / JDA

Built to make a Discord server more useful, social, and fun through voice, music, and configurable server features. It was made for YouTube playback, but does not currently use YouTube. Based on the character Vira from Granblue Fantasy.

Project 02Discord bot

ViraBot

A Discord bot for music, voice interaction, and server utilities.

Java 21JDALavalinkSQLite

About the project

ViraBot is a Java Discord bot built with JDA. It registers slash commands for joining voice channels, managing a music queue, and controlling playback. It was built with YouTube playback in mind, but that integration is not currently active.

It also supports English and Japanese spoken greetings and track announcements, with guild settings and playback history persisted in SQLite.

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