Alec Delaney
Sr. Hardware Test Engineer at Bevi
Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAlec Delaney is a senior hardware test engineer with a multidisciplinary background spanning mechanical design, embedded software, and medical device development. With eight-plus years of experience and hands-on roles from prototyping disposables to building automated test fixtures and LabView motion-control systems, he excels at bridging hardware and software to solve practical product challenges. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like Adafruit’s CircuitPython ecosystem—improving type hints, documentation, and CI—bringing an embedded-systems maker mindset to industrial problems. Comfortable with Python, C, Arduino, and circuit-level work, Alec also maintains AWS GPU instances and writes tooling for ML/vision workflows, reflecting a rare mix of firmware, test automation, and data-oriented skills. Based in Chelsea, MA, he combines best-practice product development with alternative fabrication techniques and a penchant for squeezing extra value out of legacy interfaces like parallel ports.
4 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellBachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at Northeastern University
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (28)
static-typing10
adafruit10
py10
python10
dynamic-typing10
implicit-typing10
optional-typing10
spdx10
strong-typing10
sys10
micropython10
arduino-library10
file-handling10
adafruit-circuit-python10
embedded10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
adafruit/Adafruit_Python_PlatformDetect
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 21 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Alec primarily focused on improving code quality and maintainability within the repository. Their contributions involved adding encoding parameters to `open()` functions to align with pylint recommendations, ensuring correct file handling. They also updated and replaced existing license headers with SPDX identifiers. Furthermore, the user added licenses to files and added a module docstring to a python script.
adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka
Jan 2022 - Sep 2022
Add CircuitPython hardware API and libraries to MicroPython & CPython devices
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 29 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alec primarily focused on refining and extending the `circuitpython_typing` library within the `adafruit_blinka` repository. Their contributions included defining and updating type hints for C-level protocols, ensuring compatibility and proper linking within the CircuitPython ecosystem. They also made iterative improvements to the documentation, updating links and correcting formatting to enhance the user experience. The changes included code reformatting, refactoring, and setup updates.
apipythonhardware-apihardwarecircuitpython
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