Summary
Alan Irwin-nanhra is an engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining industrial control systems and process-control applications, currently developing garment printing equipment at Brown Manufacturing. He writes embedded and application-level code in C, C++ and C#, and also contributes to web front ends using ASP.NET Razor and TypeScript, pairing low-level controller programming with user-facing interfaces. Known for meticulous documentation, systematic troubleshooting and a penchant for inventive system design, he proactively seeks hard problems and optimizes workflows to improve reliability and efficiency. His background includes campus IT systems administration and a research project building a 16-node wireless experiment, reflecting a blend of practical operations, academic research and maker curiosity. Outside work he explores web development, smart-home projects and tabletop gaming, which feed his iterative R&D hobbyist streak.
10 years of coding experience
Associates, General Arts, Associates, General Arts at Kellogg Community College
Bachelors, Computer Engineering, Bachelors, Computer Engineering at Western Michigan University
English, Spanish