Alex Petkovic
Senior Firmware Engineer at Tesla
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Petkovic is a Senior Firmware Engineer with a decade of cross-disciplinary experience building embedded control software and electrical hardware for automotive, robotics, wearables, and IoT products. Based in San Francisco, he has progressed from internships to senior roles at Tesla, applying hands-on firmware, electrical design, and systems integration to solve challenging real-world problems. He combines mechatronics training from the University of Waterloo with practical leadership—having led a university firmware team and mentored peers across multiple internships. Known for tackling full-stack embedded challenges, Alex pairs low-level MCU firmware expertise with circuit-level debugging and automated test experience. He also brings a freelancer’s mindset for delivering pragmatic solutions to private clients, giving him uncommon breadth across software, electrical, and mechanical domains.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (20)
firmware9
job-queue9
task-queue8
rq8
rover8
async8
redis8
redis-streams7
python7
udev6
docker6
pyserial6
ubuntu6
kicad5
autopilot3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uwrobotics/MarsRover2019-firmware
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
Firmware for UWRT Mars Rover 2019
Contributions:144 commits, 43 PRs, 139 pushes in 5 months
mars-roverrovermarsfirmware
jetkov/nixscripts
May 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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