Alex Ross
Senior Firmware Developer at Kraken Robotics
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolAlex Ross is an electrical engineer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia with six years of hands-on experience building embedded systems that bridge firmware, hardware, and cloud software. He has led cross-functional teams to deliver low-power acoustic communication stacks, BLE-enabled products, and AWS-backed backend services, while driving hardware design, field testing, and customer-facing integrations. His background spans automotive-grade embedded firmware, secure-boot research, and production productization—demonstrating both low-level MCU expertise and full-stack system thinking. Notably, he engineered an MFSK communication solution that achieved multi-month battery life and built test frameworks and tooling (C#, Python) to validate complex integrations. Alex combines practical prototyping and soldering experience with strategic product leadership, making him adept at turning ambiguous requirements into reliable, testable systems.
6 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering at University of New Brunswick
English, French
Github Skills (3)
security9
toolchain9
jupyter-notebook5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
newaetech/newae-mcuboot-demo
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:49 commits in 2 months
newaetech/chipwhisperer
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
ChipWhisperer - the complete open-source toolchain for side-channel power analysis and glitching attacks
Contributions:22 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
toolchainsecurityside-channelchipwhisperer
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