Alejandro Andrade Salazar

Embedded Software Engineer @ Amazon

About

Competent and passionate Software Engineer. I innovate and develop industry standard software solutions. My strongholds are computer security, networks and machine learning/AI. I have 5+ years of experience developing and leading small and big software engineering teams. I am working as an an embedded software engineer at Amazon. I was pursuing an MBA while I was working at Qualcomm building 5G C-V2x software solutions and managing several projects that involve cybersecurity, systems and networks. I was a Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant while doing my Masters of Science in Computer Science and Engineering. I am a retired Ecuadorian Team National and NCAA D. I collegiate Fencing athlete. I was a high-school and college tutor in math, physics, computer science and electrical engineering for more than 5 years.

Country

United States

City

Arlington

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Embedded Linux, Embedded C, Embedded Software, Embedded Systems, Business Administration, Project Management, Product Management, Program Management, Software Project Management, Artificial Intelligence (AI), C++, Java, Web Development, iOS Development, Strategic Planning, Athletic Training, Public Relations, Swift, Python, C

Experience

Embedded Software Engineer

Amazon

2024-6 - Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Arlington, Virginia, United States

Co-Founder

FenBox, FNBX Sports

2018-9 - Present · 8 yrs 1 mo

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Co-founder and 50% owner of FenBox LLC. In charge of the technical domain, prototyping and manufacturing of FenBox electronic devices. FenBox currently has 5 products on the market, 3 patents within China and the U.S. and 2 provisional patents.

Software Engineer

Qualcomm

2020-7 - 2023-12 · 3 yrs 6 mos

San Diego, California, United States

Software developer in 5G C-V2X telecommunications

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Penn State University

2019-1 - 2020-7 · 1 yr 7 mos

State College, Pennsylvania

Malware Analysis and Incident Response

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Penn State University

2018-8 - 2018-12 · 5 mos

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Application Design and Development Studio course for IST and SRA students.

Researcher

Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security (SIIS)

2018-8 - 2020-7 · 2 yrs

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Software Engineer Intern

Qualcomm

2019-5 - 2019-8 · 4 mos

Greater San Diego Area

Application Layer of CV2x (Cellular Vehicle to Everything) network, which is part of the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicles Systems. In C++: - Implemented multi-threaded Application that receives, transmits, encodes, and decodes Vehicle to Vehicle radio information conforming to IEEE and SAE network protocols. - Implemented multi-threaded specialized database (Local Dynamic Map a.k.a LDM) to serve safety applications with O(1) read and write and configurable garbage collection. - Implemented transmitting from recorded files as well as using TCP/IP and UDP/IP connections instead of the CV2x over the air radio for testing purposes. - Incorporated unit testing to all classes in order to guarantee a bug free system.

Co-Founder

GeoSesh LLC

2018-1 - 2018-11 · 11 mos

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Co-founded and owned 50% of GeoSesh LLC to develop iOS and Android application for sharing content and venues to practice extreme sports. - In charge of all the business, technical, and development aspects of the LLC. - Managed 2 interns working part time to develop Android application for 2 months. - Wrote more than 10000 lines of code in Swift and deployed iOS application in the Apple Market. Application was fully tested and ran in Beta mode for more than 2 months with more than 50 costumers using it and testing it. - Business partner was in charge of the marketing and advertisement side with the other 50% ownership of the LLC. Due to his own constraints to keep up with the workload, school and other responsibilities, we decided to close the LLC and take this whole process as a learning experience

Computer Science Tutor

Academic Excellence Center

2016-1 - 2018-5 · 2 yrs 5 mos

State College y alrededores, Pensilvania, Estados Unidos

• Assisted college students in introductory, and intermediate programming courses of C++. • Guided projects and teach concepts of syntax, best coding practices, functions, data structures, and OOP.