Garrett Bates

ABOUT ME

Software engineer with a passion for helping people learn

Greetings!

My experiences are mostly centered around Linux systems; but I do have some experience with writing programs for Windows as well. I consider myself to be capable in the following languages:

C
C++
C#
Python (3.x)
Assembly (x86, x86-64)

Additionally, I have experience with:

ATMEL microcontrollers

I have a B.Sc. in Computer Science, and will be furthering my studies in the near future. During the day I work at IRIS/Passcal as a Software Engineer, working to maintain and develop software for seismological research; in the evenings, I am currently working as an indie game developer, designing and constructing a custom runtime asset pipeline for MEK Engine, a Mech Warrior 2 reimplementation, using the Unity game engine.

English

Mountain Time (US & Canada) (-07:00)

Joined March 2020

EXPERTISE

7 years experience

I have used C as a hobbyist developer for approximately ten years. I have used this language in hobbyist robotics projects, developing pr...

I have used C as a hobbyist developer for approximately ten years. I have used this language in hobbyist robotics projects, developing programmable software renderers, game development, and more.

Python 3

6 years experience

Previously, I have developed software suites using Python for web scraping and data aggregation from various sources on the internet. Cur...

Previously, I have developed software suites using Python for web scraping and data aggregation from various sources on the internet. Currently, much of my daily work-related tasks revolve around the development and maintenance of platform agnostic Python software for analysis of seismological data.

C++

4 years experience

OpenGL

4 years experience

For the last two years I have developed small personal projects using Unity 3D. Currently, I am working as the backend software developer...

For the last two years I have developed small personal projects using Unity 3D. Currently, I am working as the backend software developer for a runtime asset pipeline. The project consists of a small group of three people, working to release a reimplementation of Mech Warrior 2 for modern hardware, with modern graphical features and dynamic animation.

Assembly

4 years experience

I have worked with Assembly for a number of projects, both personal in nature, and school related. These projects have ranged from revers...

I have worked with Assembly for a number of projects, both personal in nature, and school related. These projects have ranged from reverse engineering and exploitation of vulnerable binary files, to programming robots using Arduino boards, and the underlying ATMEL microcontrollers.

Linux Arduino Microcontroller

OpenGL

3 years experience

I have worked with OpenGL in hobbyist game projects, as well as smaller scale renderers that I have developed to display model and textur...

I have worked with OpenGL in hobbyist game projects, as well as smaller scale renderers that I have developed to display model and texture data from games that I am currently focusing on reverse engineering.

C C++

Matplotlib

3 years experience

I have worked with matplotlib to plot data collected from spiking neural networks, in my day-to-day work to plot data collected from the ...

I have worked with matplotlib to plot data collected from spiking neural networks, in my day-to-day work to plot data collected from the field, and in hobby projects to assist in my reverse engineering related activities.

Python 3

SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

spikey-boi

Project created for CSE 389 (Computational Neuroscience) to demonstrate Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity in a spiking neural network

Python

spiking-python

An implementation of Eugene M. Izhikevich's simple spiking model, written in Python 3.

Python

Community Posts

Adding objectives to Quake 3-based games

Modifying Quake 3-based engines to add dedicated support for mission objectives in singleplayer mods / standalone games.

Polymorphism in C

A brief exploration of the use of virtual-method tables / dynamic dispatch tables in C programs to alleviate ugly, tedious, or repetitive code.

General Tips for Reverse Engineering Files

A list of general tips for reverse engineering files, based on the overall process that I go through when reverse engineering files from old video games that I used to enjoy growing up.

EMPLOYMENTS

Software Engineer

Indica Labs

2023-03-01-Present

Working with a team of engineers on development of an AI powered platform for analyzing tissue sample slides for use in the field of path...

Working with a team of engineers on development of an AI powered platform for analyzing tissue sample slides for use in the field of pathology, in both a research and clinical capacity.

C++

Machine learning

C++

Machine learning

DevExpress

Python 3

Windows Development

Artificial Neural Networks

Windows Application

Staff Scientist / Software Engineer

IRIS Passcal

2020-08-01-2023-03-01

Worked with a small group of software engineers to develop and maintain software used within the seismological research community, as wel...

Worked with a small group of software engineers to develop and maintain software used within the seismological research community, as well as software used in-house to manage a sizeable inventory of scientific equipment to be shipped and received around the world.

MySQL

Linux

MySQL

Linux

Bash

NumPy

GitHub

Matplotlib

Scipy

GitLab

Python 3

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

2018-08-01-2020-05-01

Bridged the gap between students and instructors by assisting in holding lab exercises, tutoring and occasionally covering lectures for p...

Bridged the gap between students and instructors by assisting in holding lab exercises, tutoring and occasionally covering lectures for professors; additionally assisting in grading, and other duties at the request of professors.

Java

C++

Java

C++

Python 3

PROJECTS

Spikey Boi

2019

Spikey Boi was a research project for a Computational Neuroscience class. The goal was to train a small spiking neural network to control...

Spikey Boi was a research project for a Computational Neuroscience class. The goal was to train a small spiking neural network to control a virtual robot (referred to as the agent), and seek a target on the screen. The project had a fair degree of difficulty to it, as we chose specifically to work with a recurrent spiking neural network. This made training the network and eliciting the desired behaviours from the agent far more difficult than had we chosen a feedforward architecture. The network ended up being segmented into three parts, in order to more accurately model the real-world features of biological nervous systems: A feedforward input layer (akin to extero-/interoceptor neurons); a recurrent inner layer (akin to a central nervous system); and a feedforward output layer (akin to motor neurons or muscles); and was composed of both excitatory and inhibitory neurons. All neurons were modeled using Izhikevich's spiking model for cortical neurons.

Python 3

Reconnaissance Toolkit

RiskSense, Inc.

2017

Reconnaissance Toolkit was a closed source project developed as part of an internship in order to automate the collection and parsing of ...

Reconnaissance Toolkit was a closed source project developed as part of an internship in order to automate the collection and parsing of data for passive network reconnaissance. This was developed during an internship before I formally began my undergraduate degree in computer science.

Python 3