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.
12 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 (101)
bluetooth10
embedded10
hardware10
git-repository9
wireless9
scalable9
feature-extraction9
microcontroller9
ipv69
iot9
thread9
nlp8
computer-vision8
nest8
organize8
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
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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