Alex Gardner
Senior Project Manager - Embedded Software at Cochlear
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Gardner is a senior project manager and embedded software leader with over two decades of product engineering experience and eight years in senior management roles, now heading embedded software projects at Cochlear from Sydney. He blends hands-on expertise in industrial design, electronic hardware and RTOS-based firmware with strategic skills in PCI/EMVCo payment platforms, IoT and smart city solutions. As former CTO of Duncan Solutions he led end-to-end product portfolios—hardware, cloud-hosted services, image recognition and BI—delivering highly reliable, solar-sustaining devices and tier-1 PCI infrastructure. Alex is comfortable navigating compliance-heavy payments and mission-critical embedded systems while fostering collaboration between engineering, IT and the business. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director at TORUS and has a track record of turning ambitious product concepts into production-grade, cost-optimised offerings. Notably, his background in industrial product design gives him a practical edge in marrying aesthetics and manufacturability with embedded systems reliability.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc Product Design & Manufacture, Bsc Product Design & Manufacture at Bournemouth University
Github Skills (42)
metallb10
terraform9
ansible9
helm9
k8s9
gitops9
argocd9
traefik8
pipeline8
infrastructure8
graph8
kubernetes8
devops7
continuous-deployment7
continuous-delivery7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
eyulf/homelab
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Homelab infrastructure definitions and configuration
Contributions:3 reviews, 258 commits, 89 PRs in 1 year
ansibledefinitionshomelabinfrastructureargocd
eyulf/terraform-module-website-aws-s3-cloudfront
Mar 2021 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 2 pushes, 3 tags in 1 year 10 months
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