Alex Schlegel
Technical Lead at Intrinsic
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Schlegel is a technical lead based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building perception-driven robotic systems for real-world automation. He currently leads a team developing a distributed cloud and on-premises platform that enables global users to create, share, and deploy robotics capabilities at scale. With a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, his work uniquely bridges mechanistic insights about distributed neural representations of visual imagery with practical engineering of on-robot vision, calibration, and real-time inference. At Vicarious and now Intrinsic he translated embodied cognition research into production-grade perception stacks and software architecture for intelligent behavior. His multidisciplinary background—spanning physics, math, chemistry, and even sculpture—informs a pragmatic yet creative approach to system design and human-centered automation. Colleagues rely on him for combining deep scientific intuition with hands-on leadership to ship robust, integrative robotics solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Sculpture, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Sculpture at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at North Carolina State UniversityPhD Cognitive Neuroscience, PhD Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College
Indonesian, Spanish
Github Skills (2)
alex10
matlab8
Github contributions (5)
alexschlegel/matlab_lib
Sep 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:183 commits, 1 PR, 165 pushes in 2 years 2 months
matlabalex
alexschlegel/mentalrotation
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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