Alexander Curtiss
Embedded Systems, Co-Owner at Northwestern University
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Curtiss is an embedded systems engineer and co-owner at Winnemac Labs with 11 years of experience designing custom firmware and hardware across industrial, consumer, and biomedical domains. He combines hands-on product development—schematics and PCB layout in Altium, firmware in C/C++ and Python—with project-facing responsibilities like cost estimation and client-facing proposals. As a PhD researcher at Northwestern, he focuses on low-power embedded computing for biomedical applications, bridging rigorous academic research with practical prototypes. His background spans startup prototyping to manufacturing-aware engineering, with early work developing control systems, optical instrumentation, and biomedical devices. Based in Somerville, MA, he brings entrepreneurial instincts (co-founding a dorm-room coffee business) and a playful, security-minded persona reflected in his GitHub tagline, "A use-after-free spirit."
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northwestern UniversityBachelor's of Science, Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor's of Science, Biomedical Engineering at Tufts UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Commonwealth School
Github Skills (29)
python10
supervisord10
protect10
programming-language9
data-loss-prevention9
security9
raii9
solaris9
forwarding9
cli9
cpp8
readable8
linux8
gitleaks8
windows8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
lalaithion/yourcuinfo
Sep 2016 - Jan 2020
This is a tool for viewing MyCUInfo data in a more readable format.
Contributions:194 commits, 90 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 3 months
readable
aowsenek/diplomacyBot
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:31 commits in 6 days
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