Alexandre Kaspar
Lead Engineer at Topologic
Everett, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlexandre Kaspar is a Lead Engineer with 13 years of experience who recently completed a PhD at MIT CSAIL focusing on digital tools for manufacturing, personal fabrication, and the arts. He blends deep research knowledge in computer graphics and digital fabrication with hands-on product engineering, currently building software for on-demand textile manufacturing and weft knitting machines. His career spans industry and academia—from internships and teaching assistantships at EPFL and NEC to engineering leadership roles at Kniterate and Topologic—demonstrating an ability to translate experimental prototypes into production-ready systems. Based in Everett, Washington, he is particularly adept at bridging complex hardware-software integration challenges and designing workflows that make automated fabrication accessible to designers and makers. An uncommon strength is his dual fluency in formal research methods and pragmatic engineering, enabling rapid iteration on novel manufacturing technologies.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), EECS, CSAIL, Computer Graphics, Digital Fabrication, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), EECS, CSAIL, Computer Graphics, Digital Fabrication at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor, Informatique, Systèmes de communication, Bachelor, Informatique, Systèmes de communication at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneBachelor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
French, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
inverse10
wrapper10
addon10
caffe9
python9
bash9
machine-learning9
opencv9
sketch9
deep-learning9
openframeworks9
computer-vision9
validation8
schema8
javascript7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xionluhnis/knitsketching
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Knit Sketching's open source implementation
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
javascriptcsscppwasmknitting
xionluhnis/node-svd
Dec 2012 - Nov 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 11 months
node-jsjs-modulenodejs
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