Alex Wallace
Department Head Experiment Control System Platform Development At LCLS
San Carlos, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Wallace is a control systems leader with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and operating mission-critical instrumentation for the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC. As Department Head for Experiment Control System Platform Development, he architects end-to-end controls for beamline systems, PLCs, vacuum, mechatronics and high-level automation, bridging Beckhoff/ADS, EPICS, and Python-based ophyd abstractions. He led the LCLS-II controls and beam protection architectures and built system-wide logging and diagnostics that keep complex experiments running reliably. Comfortable from firmware and PLC logic to distributed software stacks, Alex combines experimental operations know-how with R&D in sample delivery, timing tools, and diagnostics. Based in San Carlos, he pairs applied physics and mechatronics training with a knack for treating control systems like the “galaxy-class starship” they resemble—robust, observable, and built for continuous evolution.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Applied Physics, BS Applied Physics at California State University, Chico
Japanese
Stackoverflow
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9questions
android-studio
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Github Skills (61)
python10
mqtt10
iot10
automation10
privacy10
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
garden9
asyncio9
internet-of-things9
android-studio9
documentation9
jekyll9
wifi8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
omegacore/env
Mar 2018 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 11 months
slacAWallace/xtiTranslator
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 21 days
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