Alan Hagedorn
Autopilot Software Engineer at Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Hagedorn is an Autopilot Software Engineer based in Palo Alto with four years of hands-on experience building safety-critical tooling and backend systems for top-tier tech firms. He currently works on AI tooling for Tesla Robotaxi and previously shipped anti-fraud tooling at Robinhood, web infrastructure and search features at Dropbox, and backend security visibility at Palantir. At Meta he owned the service for restoring hacked Pages and Groups, earning top performance ratings for driving measurable impact on creator safety. Alan combines a strong CS foundation from the University of Minnesota with a track record of quickly iterating production systems across security, infra, and AI spaces—an engineer who moves between high-leverage backend tooling and applied machine learning tooling. An uncommon detail: alongside product work he’s built developer-facing utilities like a Gradle codegen plugin to enforce patterns, showing a taste for tooling that scales team productivity.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (17)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
avhagedorn/avhagedorn.github.io
Jul 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:33 pushes in 2 years 6 months
avhagedorn/Leetcord
Jul 2022 - Mar 2024
The idea for LeetCord was developed by Kanishk Kacholia and Alan Hagedorn, students at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, who wanted a better tool to enhance their learning as they practiced coding challenges on LeetCode.
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 8 months
pythonalancppleetcodeleetcode-solutions
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