Alnis Smidchens
Senior Innovation Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlnis Smidchens is a Senior Innovation Engineer at PTC and a physicist who blends software, design, and robotics to turn cutting-edge technologies into practical tools for hardware engineers. With 10 years of hands-on experience, he has led large interdisciplinary student teams to build CubeSats, competitive underwater ROVs, and curriculum-grade real-time physics simulations used across the University of Washington. He brings full-stack product delivery experience from customer research and UX to deployed Progressive Web Apps, and has interned at Onshape where he prototyped future engineering workflows. His academic work—an honors BS in Applied Physics—focused on electromagnetism and electronics, and culminated in an educational electrostatics applet adopted in UW courses. Known for organizing communities (Game Dev Club president) and shipping reliable hardware-software systems, he’s equally comfortable in avionics schematics, browser DevOps, and game-like physics engines. Contactable at contact@alnis.dev, he maintains an active portfolio of code and projects at alnis.dev and GitHub.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Physics, 3.92/4.00 (unweighted), Bachelor of Science - BS, Applied Physics, 3.92/4.00 (unweighted) at University of Washington4.00/4.00 (unweighted), 4.00/4.00 (unweighted) at Garfield High School
Latvian, English, Japanese
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Github Skills (32)
google-workspace10
apps-script10
google-apps-script10
game-engine10
open-source10
game-development10
oauth10
godot9
french9
css9
google-apps9
web-development8
html8
documentation8
api8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
UWCubeSat/hsl-website
Sep 2022 - Jun 2024
Website hosted at huskysat.org
Contributions:19 reviews, 18 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year 9 months
hosted
AlnisS/spookart
Nov 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:45 commits, 11 pushes in 5 months
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