Summary
Gabriel O'donnell is a Principal Research Programmer/Analyst with 12+ years building full-stack and embedded systems for research and public-facing projects at Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE Lab and earlier roles at Gigapan and the University of Pittsburgh. He specializes in solving large-scale, complex engineering problems that connect research, rich media, and education technology, shipping production code that advances outreach and learning. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and embedded domains, he has a track record of turning research concepts into resilient, user-facing systems. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs a linguistics BA with deep practical experience, bringing an uncommon mix of human-centered thinking and systems-level engineering to long-running research software efforts.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Pittsburgh