Alex Diehl
Principal Engineer, R&D at Edwards Lifesciences
California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Diehl is a Principal R&D Engineer based in California with seven years of experience blending biomedical product development and backend/DevOps software contributions. He has led end-to-end medical device projects—taking concepts through prototyping, verification, and regulatory design controls—while mentoring junior engineers. On the software side Alex has contributed to high-profile open-source tooling such as the AWS SDK for Go, improving S3 presigned URL behavior and credentials providers, reflecting a knack for pragmatic API and infrastructure enhancements. His hybrid background in bioengineering (Johns Hopkins, UC Berkeley) and hands-on firmware/software work enables him to translate clinical needs into robust technical solutions. Colleagues rely on him for clear engineering documentation, risk-managed development, and quietly shipping cross-disciplinary features that bridge OR workflows and cloud services.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Translational Medicine, Bioengineering, Master of Translational Medicine, Bioengineering at University of California, BerkeleyJohns Hopkins UniversityTuscarora High School, Frederick, MD
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Github Skills (11)
aws-s310
go10
aws10
amazon-s310
s3-bucket10
aws-sdk10
api-design9
cloud-infrastructure8
devops7
documentation7
testing6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws/aws-sdk-go
Nov 2018 - Aug 2020
AWS SDK for the Go programming language (In Maintenance Mode, End-of-Life on 07/31/2025). The AWS SDK for Go v2 is available here: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:28 commits, 22 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions primarily involve enhancing the AWS SDK for Go, with a focus on improving the functionality and maintainability of the S3 service. They added features like the "X-Amz-Tagging" header to S3 presigned URLs and clarified return values for the Downloader methods. Further, the user also worked on documentation, API improvements, and integrating environment variables for proxy configurations. Additionally, they contributed to the EC2 metadata and static credentials provider, as well as assume role and web identity provider.
golangaws-sdksdkgoaws
diehlaws/aws-sdk-php
Apr 2019 - Aug 2020
Official repository of the AWS SDK for PHP (@awsforphp)
Contributions:28 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 3 months
phpaws-sdksdkamazon-web-servicesaws
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