Alex Wende
Firmware Engineer at The Toro Company
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Wende is a firmware engineer with a decade of experience designing embedded systems and electronics for manufacturing and consumer products, currently developing firmware at The Toro Company in the Los Angeles area. He combines hands-on C++ and MATLAB skills with PCB design and prototyping expertise honed at SparkFun, where he also authored documentation and educational kits to make hardware approachable for beginners. Earlier work at Xerox involved precision sensor test systems and electrostatic printing solutions, reflecting a knack for solving high-accuracy hardware and firmware challenges. Known for bridging hardware and software, he focuses on design-for-manufacturing improvements and clear customer-facing technical communication.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at State University of New York at Buffalo
Github Skills (41)
bootloader10
samd2110
boards-manager10
ide10
sparkfun10
temperature-sensor10
breakout10
atmega10
esp3210
arm10
arduino-ide10
arduino10
eagle10
platformio9
esp82669
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sparkfun/Arduino_Boards
Feb 2017 - Aug 2021
Board definitions for SparkFun-manufactured AVR, ARM, and ESP-based Arduino boards.
Contributions:17 commits, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 4 years 6 months
avrboards-managerarduinoarduino-ideesp
awende/Cherry_MX_Keyboard
Jun 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
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