Alec Ferguson
Staff Software Engineer at SimpliSafe
Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolAlec Ferguson is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building test automation, developer platforms, and large-scale tooling across embedded systems and cloud services. Currently balancing full-time engineering at SimpliSafe with a Master's in Computer Science at UMass Lowell, he brings deep proficiency in C++ and Python and a track record of automating complex integration and refactor workflows. At Google he built a JSON-like smoke-test framework adopted by 18 teams and led automated refactors that converted 100% of SUTs and large swaths of tests, earning recognition for reducing technical debt. His background at Sonos combines firmware diagnostics, analytics instrumentation, and robust Python test frameworks for embedded devices, reflecting a rare blend of low-level systems and high-level automation. Alec pairs a tutor’s patience with an engineer’s rigor, often surfacing opportunities to make testing and developer workflows more reproducible and maintainable.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellGithub contributions (5)
snehithar7/RSA
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes in 23 days
lysis32/Graduate-RSA-Secure-Chat
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:6 PRs, 9 pushes in 22 days
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