Alex Mueller

Software, R&D and Customer Engineer | Master of Sciene in Mechanical Engineering, ETH Zurich

Basel, Basel, Switzerland

About

Ever since I was a little kid, I was always curious about how things work. Once my attention was caught by some machine or difficult problem, I couldn't stop thinking about it until I understood it. Along with this I also enjoyed creating all kinds of things, be it a treehouse, some furniture with special functions or later some electrical applications and programs. Due to my passion, I decided to study Mechanical Engineering where I could raise my creativity and knowledge to a higher level. I got to learn a lot about mechanics, mathematics and programming. In the latter I got even more passionate after finishing university, doing personal projects like building a homepage that combines database, webscraping and multiple programming languages, or building an IOT application with an Arduino to remotely unlock my door from my phone. This passion still remains with me and I like being challenged at work, taking responsibility and working in teams. There are still many things I want to learn, many problems to solve and many things to build.

Experience

  • Wingflow AG (Basel, Switzerland · Hybrid)
    • Head of Software and Automation
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

    • Software Engineer and Project Management in Automation
      Feb 2022 - Dec 2022 · 11 mos

  • Nittoku Engineering Co., Ltd. (Fukushima, Fukushima, Japan)
    • Customer Engineer
      Oct 2020 - Jun 2021 · 9 mos

      Supporting a project for a European customer who bought a fully automated machine from Nittoku: Ensuring productive communication between the German customer and the Japanese engineers, helping with the assembly of the machine, troubleshooting and adjusting unexpected issues and requests of the customer.

    • R&D and Controls Engineer
      Jul 2019 - Jun 2021 · 2 yrs

      Developing of a new and more modern Human-Machine-Interface. Researching about IoT solutions for factory automation. Programming of PLC's, as well as designing parts and control boxes for winding machines. Leading and Supporting of Factory and Site Acceptance Testing.

  • Building Physics Internship Trainee at Geberit
    May 2018 - Aug 2018 · 4 mos

    Implementing of a reception plate test facility in the acoustic laboratory of Geberit, measuring and analyzing of airborne and structure-born noise. Writing a program in MATLAB for the processing of the data.

  • Summer Intern at The University of Tokyo
    Jul 2016 - Sep 2016 · 3 mos

    The task for the internship was the implementation and analysis of the diffusion, when mixing two or more fluids in a stirring tank, using the Koshizuka-Shibata Laboratory's own moving particle simulation method. This required mainly programming in C and C++, as well as researching about Fluid Dynamics for mixing fluids with both laminar and turbulent flows.

  • ETH Zürich, Tutor at ETH Zurich
    Sep 2015 - Dec 2015 · 4 mos

    Teaching and tutoring freshmen in technical drawing and CAD, using Siemens NX, as well as supporting and executing the 3D printing of parts designed by the freshmen.