Alex Bucknall
Staff Developer Experience Engineer at Blues
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Bucknall is a Staff Developer Experience Engineer with 11 years’ experience building developer tooling and embedded systems across IoT, edge computing, and FPGA SoCs. With a PhD in Electronic Engineering, he has designed runtime and reconfiguration toolchains for partially reconfigurable FPGA SoCs and led Hardware-in-Loop and manufacturing CI automation to shrink delivery timelines from months to minutes. He combines hands-on firmware and systems work (C/C++, Zephyr RTOS, MicroPython, Golang) with product-focused developer experience—creating libraries, drivers and headless build pipelines that enable rapid device deployment. A technical storyteller and public speaker, Alex translates complex hardware/software co-design into accessible talks and open-source projects used in conservation and industrial settings. Currently at Blues, he’s simplifying connectivity for intelligent devices and has previously driven ML-enabled acoustic/visual platforms for marine bycatch mitigation, an uncommon blend of conservation tech and embedded systems expertise.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering, BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering at University of Warwick
Github Skills (200)
firmata10
pycom10
yocto10
bluetooth10
embedded10
resin10
git-repository10
scalable10
flashing10
lcd10
microcontroller10
i2c10
iot10
owncloud10
docker10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
Bucknalla/attendee-tool-mlh
Sep 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 7 months
Bucknalla/sigfox-hidnseek-tutorial
Jul 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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