Griffin Hale

• Repair ultrasound boards and keep the parts flow moving for the shop; took on newer, more complex machines with little oversight after being hired for a narrower repair lane.
• Worked out how to load software and install firmware on locked-down boards, partly through static analysis of manufacturer binaries, then wrote Python and Rust tools to make testing and repair steps repeatable.
• Built the shop’s missing automation layer around its API-less legacy systems: browser tooling for inventory and order-entry workflows plus a Dockerized label-printing service, all in daily shop-wide use, with rollout and support for non-technical coworkers.

• Seven years in restaurant kitchens and front-of-house, where I learned to stay reliable and work well with a team under pressure.

• Designed and implemented the project-owned C++ integration layer (~4,250 lines) between Rust and Qt/MapLibre Native: custom tile/basemap/glyph file sources, render and event-loop lifecycle handling, teardown fixes, and pixel/counter-based native render validation.

• Built and physically validated an allocation-free C simulation for RP2040 keyboard firmware: versioned CRC protocols, sanitizer-backed native tests, golden framebuffer checks, flash/RAM budget gates, rollback artifacts, and hardware acceptance at v0.4.

• Shipped a playable v0.95 public beta of a deterministic city-management game built on ArcGIS Pro, with a unit-testable pure-Python rules layer (313 passing tests), architecture docs, a changelog, and public MIT-licensed source.

• Built a playable Godot incremental game driving its economy from a 2048-style merge board, with automation, prestige, data-driven achievements, and a headless test suite behind the major systems.

Coursework: computer science, networking, geography.