Alessandro Mendola
Embedded Software Engineer at Aurora
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlessandro Mendola is an embedded software engineer with nine years of experience building safety-critical firmware and software for automated vehicles, industrial robotics, and medical imaging. He holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Honors from Northeastern University and has focused on low-level C development, static analysis, and rigorous validation throughout his career. His roles at Optimus Ride, MAGNA Electronics, and now Aurora reflect deep domain experience in perception-to-actuation stacks and production-grade embedded systems. Early work on SIL/61508-type certification at Amazon Robotics and hands-on firmware testing underline his focus on functional safety and reliability. Based in Somerville, MA, he combines practical field experience with a systems-level understanding of hardware-software integration. Notably, his trajectory shows a steady shift from co-op internships into sustained engineering ownership in autonomy and robotics.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
Github Skills (7)
dbus9
bus9
can-bus9
sym8
serial-port7
python7
rocket2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mendola/xArm-control
Oct 2018 - Dec 2021
Robotic Arm Control for Lewansoul xArm
Contributions:42 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 2 months
xarmroboticsarmrobotic-arm
mendola/dj-photon2
May 2020 - Apr 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 11 months
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