Alexander West
Lead Ground Software Engineer at York Space Systems
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander West is a Lead Ground Software Engineer with nine years of experience building mission-critical ground systems and telecom software, currently leading ground software at York Space Systems out of Denver. He progressed from intern to senior roles at Adtran before transitioning to space systems, bringing deep hands-on experience in Python, C/C++, shell scripting, and full-stack platform work (Angular/Scala) across embedded, cloud, and CI/CD environments. A Tennessee Tech CS alumnus and Georgia Tech MS student, he pairs academic rigor with practical co-op and government internship experience at US Strategic Command. Known for wide-ranging personal projects in diverse languages, he thrives on learning new tools and adapting solutions across domains—a trait that fuels his shift from telecom infrastructure to spacecraft ground operations.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Tennessee Technological UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (20)
chatroom10
bots10
sasl10
twisted10
irc10
python9
golang9
directive8
scroll7
utility5
angular-directives5
angular-library4
infinite-scroll4
angular3
stock3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
AFTERWAKE/IRCBots
Jul 2017 - Feb 2020
Bots for our fun lil IRC chatroom
Contributions:117 commits, 5 PRs, 103 pushes in 2 years 7 months
golangpythonbotsaslbots
alecwest/wumpus-kotlin
Jul 2018 - Sep 2018
Redoing an AI project in kotlin
Contributions:4 PRs, 294 pushes, 7 branches in 2 months
kotlinjava
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