Alex Place
PLC Engineer at Apperture Solutions
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Place is a controls engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience in industrial automation and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from RIT, focused on robotics. He has led controls design and PLC programming efforts—primarily using Allen-Bradley—and created electrical schematics and HMIs for complex machine builds in collaboration with mechanical teams. Comfortable both in the shop and onsite at plants, Alex pairs practical assembly and commissioning experience with software skills in C++, Python, and ROS from his robotics projects. He enjoys bringing robots to life and has a track record of turning customer requirements into reliable, production-ready systems. Now based in Brockport, NY, he’s actively pivoting toward more robotics-centric roles where his blend of controls engineering and embedded software can drive autonomous or semi-autonomous solutions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (18)
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github-api5
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
alex-place/lantern-os
May 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:61 PRs, 1119 pushes, 638 branches in 1 month
alex-place/Orion
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:53 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
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