Gareth Shikles
Pahoa, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolGareth Shikles is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience building and optimizing real-time multimedia and computer vision systems across desktop, mobile, embedded, and automotive platforms. He brings deep low-level expertise in Assembler, C/C++, CUDA and platform toolkits like Qt, OpenGL and OpenCV, coupled with a strong track record of performance tuning that has produced order-of-magnitude speedups. His work spans secretive automotive computer vision and robotics projects, cross-platform mobile and remote-desktop acceleration, proprietary media codecs and embedded sensor/automation systems for IoT. Comfortable from kernel and SIMD optimizations to UI/UX and platform integration, he also blends unusual influences—applying concepts from music theory and cetacean sonar—to novel sensing and segmentation approaches. Based in Pahoa, Hawaii, Gareth pairs systems-level rigor with creative problem solving and a history of independently shipping complex, multidisciplinary products.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Science and Mathematics major, Astronomy and Music minor, Associate's degree, Computer Science and Mathematics major, Astronomy and Music minor at Park University
German, Spanish, Italian, French
Github Skills (12)
realm10
realtime10
database10
nosql-database9
swift9
ios9
objective-c9
sqlite9
cpp8
realtime-database8
mobile8
reactive8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
realm/realm-swift
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Realm is a mobile database: a replacement for Core Data & SQLite
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 13 days
objective-crealtimethreadsafesynccore-data
realm/realm-core
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Core database component for the Realm Mobile Database SDKs
Contributions:6 commits in 18 days
cpprealm-mobile-databasenosql-databasemobile-databasec-plus-plus
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