Alex Thornton
Executive Director at Bodhi®
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Thornton is an executive leader in climate tech with 11 years of hands-on engineering and management experience, currently serving as Executive Director at LF Energy in San Francisco. He has scaled engineering and data science organizations across renewable energy and food systems, including CTO roles at Cleartrace and Imperfect Foods and senior leadership at Sunrun and Locus Energy. Trained as an electrical engineer with a multidisciplinary master's focused on environment and energy from KTH, Ecole des Mines de Nantes and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, he blends technical rigor with domain expertise in clean energy systems. Alex is comfortable shifting between strategy, product and implementation—building data-driven platforms that translate complex energy and emissions signals into operational decisions. He also advises climate startups as a board advisor, suggesting a knack for translating early-stage innovation into enterprise impact. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic systems thinker who pairs deep technical fluency with an ability to mobilize cross-functional teams toward decarbonization goals.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy, Master of Science Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy at Ecole des Mines de NantesMaster of Science Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy, Master of Science Management and Engineering of Environment and Energy at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering at Penn State UniversityMaster of Science Management and Engineering of the Environment and Energy, Master of Science Management and Engineering of the Environment and Energy at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
English, Spanish, French, American Sign Language
Github Skills (39)
vote9
api-platform9
postman9
docker8
google-play8
rest-api8
api8
itunes8
rest8
golang8
lifecycle8
ember-addon8
nodejs7
twitter7
landscape7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LocusEnergy/api-docs
Dec 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:76 commits, 7 PRs, 18 pushes in 2 years 3 months
apiopenapimarkdown
alexthornton/bigparty
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:23 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
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