Summary
John Alabi is a software engineer with 14 years of embedded-systems experience across consumer electronics, automotive, and medical devices, currently building firmware at Google in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in low-level C and device programming, writing drivers for UART, SPI, I2C, CAN, Bluetooth and integrating diverse sensors, ICs, and actuators into robust platforms. His interdisciplinary background in mechatronics, mechanical engineering and bioengineering informs hands-on skills in circuit design, PCB layout and mechanical design—he enjoys debugging hardware with oscilloscopes, DMMs and logic analyzers. Past roles include shipping wearable firmware at Misfit and Fossil and a VW-ERL co-sponsored project where he designed a low-cost IMU with GPS and CAN integration. He blends product-minded engineering with practical prototyping, frequently taking concepts from schematic to realized device. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions at the intersection of hardware, firmware and systems engineering.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, B.S., and B.A., Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering, M.S, B.S., and B.A., Mechatronics, Mechanical Engineering, Bioengineering at Stanford University