Summary
Alex Fosdick is an embedded software engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading firmware teams and shaping platform-level firmware strategy at Fluke Corporation. He manages cross-disciplinary engineering across drivers, OS, and system software while overseeing CI/CD, cloud-based automation, and sustainment of production products. His background spans hands-on firmware design for ARM/TI microcontrollers, real-time OSes, and hardware-software integration from roles at Tesla, Boosted, and ZOLA Electric to academic teaching and curriculum development at CU Boulder. Alex combines technical leadership with teaching chops—he launched a popular Coursera embedded systems course and designed multiple university-level courses and learning platforms. Based in Langley, WA, he pairs pragmatic delivery and capacity planning with a knack for translating complex hardware constraints into maintainable firmware architectures. Outside work, he’s notably fond of corgis, hinting at an approachable team culture.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado at Boulder