Engineer · Innovator · Builder

Alexander Ås

I am an all-rounder engineer, working across the full technical spectrum - designing PCBs, writing low-level firmware, and building the software and intelligent AI systems that tie it all together.

Skills

Across the Stack

Primary Discipline
Hardware Engineering
From Schematic to Silicon

End-to-end hardware development - concept, schematic, multi-layer PCB layout, testing and production. Designing boards that work first time is the goal, knowing precisely why they don't is the craft.

  • PCB Design
  • Multi-layer Routing
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Altium Designer
  • KiCAD
  • Oscilloscope
  • Logic Analyzer
  • Signal Integrity
Primary Discipline
CAD Design
From 3D Model to Reality

From concept sketch and parametric 3D model to physical prototype. Getting a part right first print is the goal, understanding why the fit was off by 0.2 mm is the craft.

  • Autodesk Fusion
  • 3D-Modelling
  • 3D-Printing
  • CAD
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Technical Drawings
Primary Discipline
Firmware Development
Close to the Metal

Writing firmware that runs reliably in resource-constrained environments. Real-time scheduling, peripheral drivers, communication stacks, and power management - all the way down to the register level.

  • ARM Cortex-M
  • STM32 series
  • AVR / ATmega
  • C / C++
  • USB
  • SPI / I2C / UART / RS485
  • Bluetooth
  • CAN
  • JTAG / SWD Debug
  • Assembly
  • Power Management
  • ESP32
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Intelligent Automation and Pattern Detection

Designing multi-agent pipelines, LLM integrations, computer vision systems and machine learning models.

  • OpenCV
  • Tensorflow
  • PyTorch
  • RAG
  • Computer Vision
  • LLM Integration
  • Agentic Pipelines
  • scikit learn
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • CNNs
  • MCP
Software Engineering
Full Stack

Building and deploying APIs, web-applications and backends.

  • FastAPI
  • Python
  • C#
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • PostgreSQL
  • Relational Databases
  • Vector Databases
  • REST
  • Git
  • Kotlin

Projects

Selected Work

Acoustic Underwater Receiver
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Hardware + Firmware

Acoustic Underwater Receiver

Thelma Biotel

Next-level, multi-frequency acoustic receiver. I was responsible for the prototype PCB design and firmware development.

PCB DesignAltium DesignerCSTM32SPI / I2CMulti-layer PCB

Education

Academic Background

MSc
Computer Science
Master of Science
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Artificial Intelligence and Embedded Systems
BSc
Computer Science
Bachelor of Science
University of Hamburg
Artificial Intelligence and Embedded Systems
BSc
Economics
Bachelor of Science
University of Bremen
International Management