Alex Henning
Software Development Manager For Dash Cart at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Henning is a software development leader and robotics engineer with 15 years of experience building production robotics and embedded systems, currently managing the Dash Cart engineering team at Amazon Web Services. He blends systems-level robotics expertise—from motor controller driver development in WPILib to Gazebo simulation integration—with product delivery at scale across startups and enterprise teams. Alex has a long history supporting the FIRST robotics community, contributing core WPILib device drivers and simulation tooling that help thousands of high school teams run the same code in simulation and on real robots. His background spans principal engineering roles at robotics companies and hands-on work porting real-time robot libraries, giving him a rare mix of low-level firmware, middleware, and cloud-connected product experience. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs academic training (MS/BS in Robotics Engineering from WPI) with practical open-source contributions that improve developer tooling and device interoperability.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Robotics Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wpilibsuite/allwpilib
May 2014 - Jan 2015
Official Repository of WPILibJ and WPILibC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex made several commits focused on updating and merging code related to the CANJaguar motor controller. These changes included modifications to the C++ and Java implementations, along with updates to the header files. The commits show the user focused on improving the functionality and integration of motor controllers, specifically in the context of the RoboRIO. The user appears to be updating device drivers within the official WPILibJ and WPILibC repositories.
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alexhenning/networktables
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:58 commits in 5 days
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