Alex Kolstad
Software Engineer at Apple
Los Altos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kolstad is a software engineer with eight years of industry experience and a strong focus on building robust backend architectures for IoT networks. He moves quickly from proof-of-concept to production, having designed Django and AWS IoT Wireless backends for LoRa deployments and tooling to flash, configure, and test hardware at scale. Alex pairs backend engineering with practical embedded and field-operations experience—debugging deployed Linux devices, creating manufacturing test flows, and automating updates with Ansible. Based in Los Altos, he emphasizes low-latency, cost-conscious solutions driven by close collaboration with customers, manufacturing, and embedded teams. Notably, he has repeatedly bridged gaps between cloud services and hardware, delivering high-availability ingest pipelines and tools that streamline mass production and field diagnostics.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Oregon State UniversityLos Altos High School
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Github Skills (16)
sensor9
java7
codec7
paramiko6
assembly6
python6
irvine326
swiftui6
ssh6
x866
wine6
masm6
metal5
macos4
lorawan4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ajkolstad/fivenightsatfreddysjava
Nov 2018 - Nov 2019
A clone of Five Nights at Freddy's in java
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year
gamenightsfreddyfivejava
ajkolstad/ajkolstad.github.io
Jun 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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