Alexander Hamilton

Robotics Engineer @ UC Santa Cruz

Selected work

01 / 03 case studies
CAD render of Terry shooting a game piece toward the 2024 FRC speaker
Robotics · FRC2024

Terry: 2024 FRC Competition Robot ~ Patribots 4738

A 2024 FRC robot with swerve drive, a pivoting shooter, vision-assisted aiming, reusable autonomous routines, and a simulator used during development. Terry was built to pick up and shoot orange donuts called notes in the 2024 FRC game, Crescendo.

Fully synchronized digital twindual-purpose runtime for simulation or real deployment
±3 cm precisionrequired for precise autonomous navigation
JavaWPILibSwerveAutonomyCAD
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Robot archive

02 / Interactive CAD
2024 · Crescendo
Render of Terry
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Robot 01FRC 4738

Terry

  • Swerve
  • Vision-aware shooting
  • Reusable autos
  • Simulation
Fully synchronized digital twindual-purpose runtime for simulation or real deployment
±3 cm precisionrequired for precise autonomous navigation
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2023 · Charged Up
Jerome with its two-link arm raised
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Robot 02FRC 4738

Jerome

  • Two-link arm
  • Cones + cubes
  • Manipulation
  • Autonomy
Ranked 54th of 3,700+ teams worldwideStatbotics result after world championship
0.67s placement timeimproved from 1.5s in offseason
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Experience timeline

03 / present → 2022
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  1. iD Tech · Stanford

    Assistant Director

    Second promotion

    Promoted a second time to direct operations for a 300-student/week camp with authority over 45+ staff, serving as the primary escalation point for parent and student incidents. Closely mentored a rotating team of 5 instructors through feedback and conflict resolution, and co-developed a Node.js/WebSocket automation across 60 computers for synced scheduling and transitions.

    Site leadershipAutomationSystems operations

  2. iD Tech · Stanford

    Lead Instructor

    First promotion

    Came back to Stanford for my first promotion, running daily staff check-ins and classroom coordination for a 60-student site. Took direct responsibility for scheduling, feedback, and conflict resolution across a 5-instructor team.

    Staff mentorshipProgram logisticsStudent support

  3. UC Santa Cruz

    Student Researcher

    Starting research

    Working on LLM-guided robotics in Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab, using PiCarX sensors and actions to test how language models plan robot behavior. Building simulated experiments to evaluate agent performance and real-time adaptation.

    Embodied AIIsaac LabRobotics research

  4. iD Tech · Stanford

    Instructor

    Summer instructor

    Taught week-long Unity, Roblox Studio, and VR courses for 12 students ages 9–17. I also handled the network and hardware problems for 3 classes throughout the summer.

    Technical educationUnity + VROperations

  5. X Academy · Santa Cruz

    Student Intern

    Underwater robotics

    Supported a cohort building underwater ROVs, working closely with Watsonville High School's 10-student team. Taught them to wire Raspberry Pi driver inputs to the robot, stream a Pi camera to the driver computer for assisted driving, and apply solid software architecture practices. The team went from nothing to a working ROV in two months and competed in their first competition that season.

    MentorshipROSPython controls

  6. Patrick Henry High School

    Volunteer Robotics Teacher

    Teaching robotics

    Taught 15 students through a full ten-week design, build, and test cycle. The students carried the work forward by founding rookie FRC team 9452 and winning their very first competition.

    CommunityRobotics educationEngineering process

  7. Patribots 4738

    Lead Programmer

    First robotics competitions

    Grew the software subteam from 3 to 20 members by establishing git workflows so people could actually build together. We went from 92 commits and zero pull requests in 2022 to over 1,700 commits and 130+ PRs in 2024, qualifying for the FIRST Championship three seasons in a row.

    FRCMotion controlTeam leadership

04 / Education

UC Santa Cruz

DegreeRobotics Engineering B.S.
GraduationExpected June 2028
Current workEmbodied AI research
Alexander Hamilton

05 / About

Alexander Hamilton

I like building robots and software that still work when things get messy. Team projects, teaching, hackathons, and research have made me care as much about clear communication and careful testing as the code itself.

JavaPythonC / C++JavaScriptReactNode.jsROS 2NVIDIA Isaac Sim / LabThree.jsAWSGit

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