Alex Hagen
Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
La Mesa, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Hagen is a Senior Staff Engineer and former astrophysicist with 13 years of experience bridging software engineering, data science, and machine learning to deliver production-grade analytics and models. He has led and scaled data science teams and programs—growing a team by 300% and instituting internship pipelines—while driving product-focused R&D in geospatial, time series, and mobile data. His career spans startups and enterprise finance, where he built serverless data pipelines, unit-tested R packages, and entropy-based research for multi-asset strategies. An active open-source contributor to the astronomy library astropy, he implemented and hardened CCD signal-to-noise and statistical tools used by the community. Based in La Mesa, CA, Alex combines hands-on engineering at Qualcomm with a PhD-trained scientific rigor, often turning telescope-grade signal processing techniques into robust ML and data-engineering solutions. He is known for mentoring engineers and translating complex research into scalable products.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at Harvey Mudd College
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Github Skills (8)
python10
astrophysics10
astronomy10
numpy10
data-analysis10
testing9
bootstrap9
bootstra9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
astropy/astropy
Mar 2013 - Nov 2014
Astronomy and astrophysics core library
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 24 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the `astropy/astropy` repository by developing and refining a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) function for CCD observations. This involved initial implementation, refactoring, and bug fixes, demonstrating a focus on astronomical data analysis and modeling. The user also added tests for the SNR function and included a bootstrap function in the stats module to improve data analysis capabilities. Additionally, the user made several improvements to tests and documentation.
astrologypythonscienceastrophysicsastrodynamics
astronomeralex/filtercurves
Mar 2014 - Jul 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 3 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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