Alex Precosky
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Precosky is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with 18 years of experience designing electromechanical and embedded systems for industrial automation, currently building robots at Amazon Robotics in Seattle. He combines mechanical and electronic engineering expertise to deliver firmware, hardware, machine vision, and IoT solutions across the product lifecycle, from PCB and digital logic to cloud-connected data pipelines. His background includes innovation roles at FPInnovations and hands-on embedded hardware design for automated inspection systems, giving him a practical grasp of both prototyping and scalable production. Comfortable in cross-disciplinary teams, he blends real-time computing and mechatronics with data science to squeeze extra value from sensing and control systems. Not obviously visible from job titles, he transitioned from independent embedded consulting into large-scale robotics, bringing an entrepreneurial mindset to complex, safety-critical automation projects.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, B.A.Sc., Mechanical Engineering at The University of British Columbia
English, French
Github Skills (22)
hardware10
camera-api9
sdk9
computer-vision9
realsense8
robotics5
mysql-database5
circuit4
python4
deserialization3
cpp3
swift3
typescript3
serialization3
golang2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alex-precosky/mqtt_sql_gateway_osgi
Oct 2017 - Jan 2020
Kura module for putting MQTT values into a MySQL database
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
mqttmysql-database
alex-precosky/emacsd
Apr 2017 - Feb 2026
Contributions:94 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 11 months
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