Alex Broekhof
Software Engineer at Quilt
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Broekhof is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building embedded systems, robotics, and cloud-connected products across startups and Google moonshot projects. Currently at Quilt, he brings a strong robotics and embedded background from roles at Mineral.ai, X, and Google where he led embedded firmware for Nest Protect and implemented cloud-offloaded robotics perception and RANSAC-based localization. He combines PhD-level signal and control expertise from Cambridge with practical data-science and self-driving car training to bridge low-level hardware, real-time systems, and distributed cloud services. Alex has a history of shipping production-grade vision and object-recognition services and improving system-level reliability in safety-critical devices. Unusually for an engineer, he also trained in French cuisine and pastry, reflecting a detail-oriented, creative approach to problem solving. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he excels at turning academic methods into pragmatic, deployable systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of CambridgeNanodegree, Self-Driving Cars, Nanodegree, Self-Driving Cars at UdacityJohns Hopkins UniversityMaster's Degree, French Cuisine and Pastry, Master's Degree, French Cuisine and Pastry at Le Cordon Bleu Paris
English, French
Github Skills (72)
bluetooth10
bulma9
training-data9
wireless9
feature-extraction9
embedded9
hardware9
microcontroller9
ipv69
iot9
google9
nest8
diffusion-models8
recommendation-system8
dimensions8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
abroekhof/dotemacs
Mar 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:60 pushes in 7 years 2 months
abroekhof/waldbasketbag
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Pattern and instructions for a MYOG Wald 137 basket bag
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
myogsewingsewing-patterns
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