Alex Berndt

Software And Data Engineer at Overstory

Alex Berndt's work experience is as follows:

- Overstory (2022 - Present): Data and Software Engineer, leading the Data Platform team. Responsible for geospatial data engineering and full-stack software engineering, focusing on automating ingestion and processing of satellite imagery, infrastructure for large-scale labeling processes, and tooling for satellite imagery inventory.

- Dashmote (2021 - 2022): Machine Learning Engineer, leading a team of five data scientists and data engineers. Developed and validated ML-based components for the company's Data Product. Made notable contributions including designing and testing a production-level ML pipeline for entity matching and an ML algorithm for context-extraction NLP tasks.

- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2020 - 2021): Doctoral Student, specializing in data-driven set estimation and set-based filtering techniques using zonotopes. Supervised a Bachelor thesis project in computer science and completed coursework in optimal filtering and advanced reinforcement learning techniques.

- Bosch (2019 - 2020): Master Thesis Project, focusing on a specific research project as part of the master's degree.

- Technische Universiteit Delft (2019): Graduate Teaching Assistant, assisting in teaching the Networked and Distributed Control graduate course.

- TOPdesk (2018): Software Engineer Intern, worked on a full-stack web app project and participated in workshops on Agile methodologies, software development cycle, and web security.

- UP Vehicle Dynamics Group (2017): Research Engineer, involved in research projects related to vehicle dynamics.

- Specialist Condition Monitoring (SCM) (2015): Software Engineer Intern, contributed to research and development of NDT robots for turbine blade and pipe inspections, gaining experience in embedded systems technology.

- MIT School of Engineering (2015): Undergraduate Researcher, participated in research projects at the School of Engineering.

Alex Berndt completed a Master of Science (MS) degree in Systems & Control from Delft University of Technology from 2017-2020. Prior to that, they obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria from 2013-2016. In 2015, they briefly studied Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Software And Data Engineer

    February, 2022 - present