Alec Tiefenthal
Senior 3D CAD Engineer at Dandy
Columbus, Ohio Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Tiefenthal is a Senior 3D CAD Engineer with 11 years of software engineering experience who shifted into robotics and real-time systems, rapidly becoming a key contributor at Path Robotics where he helped scale the company from a 10-person startup to a 200+ employee business. He combines strong formal training in software engineering and computer science with practical expertise in CUDA-accelerated algorithms, AI-driven robotics, and industrial AR/VR prototyping. Alec has a demonstrated ability to learn new domains quickly—joining robotics with minimal prior experience and delivering production systems—and excels at architecting complex software for high-speed, safety-critical environments. Now at Dandy, he brings both hands-on development skills and a history of cross-disciplinary innovation that spans embedded C, Python data tooling, and immersive application development.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Double major in Software Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Double major in Software Engineering and Computer Science at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Github Skills (57)
expressions10
xslt10
moveit10
xml10
urdf10
readable10
gazebosim9
macros9
robotics9
ignition9
webots9
robot9
gazebo-simulator9
ros9
ros-driver9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
path-robotics/CyUSBSerial_SDK
Jan 2021 - Nov 2021
Installer repository for Cypress USB serial controller drivers
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 6 PRs in 10 months
driverscontrollerserialusb-serialinstaller
path-robotics/motoman
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
ROS-Industrial Motoman support (http://wiki.ros.org/motoman)
Contributions:12 reviews, 49 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 10 months
roboticsros2webotsindustrialros-industrial
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