Alex Kuc
Product Engineer at Dorman Products
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Kuc is a product engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience designing and improving mechanical systems, currently based in Chicago and pursuing a BS in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue. He has progressed through roles in automotive and industrial firms—most recently at Dorman Products after product and process engineering positions at GATX and General Motors—bringing practical expertise in eMotor fabrication, assembly processes, and product development. Alex pairs shop-floor experience and quality engineering roots with a knack for software-driven tooling, evidenced by meaningful contributions to the healpy Python library where he enhanced coordinate-transform functionality and test coverage. Outside of corporate roles he has run an automotive restoration business, reflecting entrepreneurial drive and direct vehicle systems know-how. He seeks roles that blend vehicle and energy-focused mechanical design with data-informed product decisions, and brings an unusual cross-disciplinary perspective from near-field cosmology interests to applied engineering problems.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University
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Github Skills (12)
python10
numpy10
unit-testing9
data-analysis8
computer-engineering8
pip6
firefox6
indexing6
colors6
matplotlib6
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
healpy/healpy
Jan 2014 - Jul 2020
Python healpix maps tools
Role in this project:
Data Scientist / Software Engineer
Data Scientist / Software EngineerContributions:1 review, 17 commits, 4 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to enhancing the `healpy` library by adding functionality and improving existing features. Their work included adding and refining the `lonlat` argument across multiple functions (`ang2pix`, `pix2ang`, `ang2vec`, `get_interp_val`, `get_interp_weights`, and `get_all_neighbours`), facilitating the transformation between coordinate systems. They also added tests for these new features. Additionally, the user fixed a casting issue and improved code performance within the `read_map` function.
python
kadrlica/skymap
Mar 2017 - Mar 2021
Python skymaps based on basemap
Contributions:2 releases, 139 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years
python
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