Alex Thielk
Software Engineer 3 at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAlex Thielk is a Software Engineer 3 based in San Diego with a decade of hands-on experience and a Computer Science degree from UC Santa Barbara, specializing in C++, C, Java, and Python. He has a strong track record delivering mission-critical systems for unmanned aerial vehicles, from rescuing crashed codebases during a 20-year modernization to developing real-time terrain-avoidance and condition-based maintenance modules that prevented multi-million-dollar losses. Alex pairs algorithm development and object detection expertise with practical engineering practices—establishing unit testing, CI, and a shared Common library that now supports multiple teams. He also improves team performance through onboarding guides, coding assessments, and regular code reviews, and has moved legacy functionality forward by creatively integrating Python/Cython with C++ to avoid costly platform dependencies. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges research and production, able to translate scientific findings into automated, scalable workflows used in both defense and biotech contexts.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, Santa BarbaraProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
UCSB-CS56-Projects/cs56-games-beetle
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
athielk/F16-lab04
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:13 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.