About
Hands-on first.
I’m Alex St. Louis, a mechatronics student at MTSU with more than a decade in industrial maintenance and plant engineering. I’ve spent my career keeping production lines running and fixing the ones that weren’t. Now I’m pairing that experience with theory, so I can go from maintaining automated systems to designing and building them from the ground up.
How I work
I dig into the root cause and see it through. I plan the work, own it, and don’t walk away until it runs. Some of my favorite projects are the ones that give other people their time back.
How I learn
By building and breaking things. I taught myself MIG and TIG welding, including stainless, and manual machining on a lathe and mill. My homelab is where I experiment, set up mostly from documentation and trial and error.
At home
I rebuilt the 350 small-block in my old C10 pickup, swapped in a 3-speed manual, and replaced the ignition key with an RFID relay circuit. That circuit was one of my first controls projects.
Outside the shop
Hiking, rock climbing, woodworking, FPV drones, amateur radio and cybersecurity. I speak English and Spanish.
Education
- BS in Mechatronics, MTSU (in progress)
- Associate’s Degree in Mechatronics
- Siemens Level II Certification