Alex Campbell
Engineering at Applied Intuition
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Campbell is a versatile engineering leader with a decade of hands-on software and program management experience driving AI, autonomy, and rapid acquisition across the Navy and Defense Innovation Unit. He has led large, mission-critical portfolios—designing and fielding ML operations pipelines and unmanned maritime systems—while translating commercial tech into deployed DoD capability and synchronizing program budgets and congressional priorities. Alex pairs operational command experience (leading EOD and expeditionary forces) with engineering rigor—contributing to open-source test automation for NASA’s Core Flight System OSAL—bringing both fleet-tested practicality and software QA discipline. Known as a change agent, he consistently replaces unsustainable practices with scalable, repeatable processes that accelerate readiness and technology adoption. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends strategic program leadership, hands-on systems delivery, and an uncommon ability to unite stakeholders from warfighters to senior acquisition authorities.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE/LETTERS at United States Naval AcademyMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration, Management and Operations at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
functional-testing10
testing10
c119
c179
filesystem8
timer7
timers7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nasa/osal
Nov 2020 - May 2021
The Core Flight System (cFS) Operating System Abstraction Layer (OSAL)
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:43 reviews, 32 commits, 29 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the project by refactoring existing unit tests and adding new functional tests, focusing on the OSAL (Operating System Abstraction Layer). The commits demonstrate the user's effort in updating test functions, renaming variables, and adding functional tests for various OS functions like timers, file systems, and shell commands. These changes suggest a focus on improving test coverage and validating the OSAL's functionality.
operating-system
zanzaben/cFE
Oct 2020 - Aug 2021
The Core Flight System (cFS) Core Flight Executive (cFE)
Contributions:4 PRs, 195 pushes, 88 branches in 9 months
flightcfeexecutivecfs
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