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Alex Stout
Staff Engineer · Hardware-software systems
I build the connective tissue between physical products and the cloud — firmware, embedded telemetry, event-driven AWS infrastructure, and the applied-AI tooling that makes engineering teams faster. Currently leading applied AI across Goal Zero and BioLite.
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Engineer with a soldering iron and a Lambda console open at the same time.
13+ years building cloud-native systems, most of them at Goal Zero — first as a firmware engineer on lithium and lead-acid power stations, then leading the team that took the connected portable-power line to event-driven AWS infrastructure handling millions of device events.
Now I lead applied AI for the combined Goal Zero / BioLite engineering org: shipping LLM-powered internal tools, RAG knowledge bases over engineering docs and runbooks, and AI-driven synthesis pipelines that turn unstructured signal — telemetry, GitHub activity, support tickets — into actionable summaries for engineering leadership.
Salt Lake City, UT. CS at the University of Utah. Outside work: solar projects on the Navajo Nation through Goal Zero's give-back program, a home lab built on Raspberry Pi + ESP32 + Home Assistant, and a backyard that doubles as a firmware test bench.
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Recent work
BioLite
2025 — PresentSoftware Engineering Manager — Applied AI & Cloud
Leading applied-AI adoption across the combined Goal Zero / BioLite engineering org post-acquisition.
Goal Zero
2013 — 2025Engineering Manager → Sr. Software/Firmware (IoT)
Architected event-driven IoT infrastructure handling millions of device events; led the team behind the connected portable-power product line.
SilverVue
2016 — 2018Full-Stack & DevOps Engineer
Modernized a healthcare services portal and led the migration off MeteorJS to a React / Node / AWS Lambda stack.
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Latest writing
// Devlog launching soon. In the meantime — follow /blog.
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Working on something at the intersection of hardware, cloud, and AI?
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