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 (38)
bootloader10
boards-manager10
ide10
sparkfun10
temperature-sensor10
breakout10
arduino-library10
arm10
arduino-ide10
arduino10
lipo9
battery-level9
power-management9
motor-driver9
avr9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sparkfun/SparkFun_TMP102_Arduino_Library
Aug 2016 - Sep 2020
Arduino library for the TMP102 digital temperature sensor
Contributions:5 releases, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 1 month
arduino-librarytemperature-sensor
awende/Cherry_MX_Keyboard
Jun 2017 - Jul 2020
A custom 4x4 keyboard plus two rotary encoders
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
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