Garrett Wells
Embedded Firmware Engineer at Scanivalve
Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarrett Wells is an embedded firmware engineer and graduate computer science student with a decade of hands-on experience building robotics, automation, and low-power IoT systems. He has led multidisciplinary teams to integrate ML, PLC control, high-voltage electrical subsystems, and navigation for an autonomous weed removal robot, and designed an open-source ESP32 platform that doubled field device battery life while maintaining 99% uptime. Currently at Scanivalve, he focuses on firmware that bridges hardware constraints with scalable software practices like OTA updates and PlatformIO-based build automation. Garrett blends academic rigor (4.0 MS) with practical engineering—from NASA flight sensors to PLC Modbus drivers—and often prototypes custom EOAT and 3D-printed hardware. Outside work he keeps sharpening skills by tinkering with embedded systems and climbing, which fuels his iterative, hands-on problem-solving approach.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Master's degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of Idaho
Github Skills (16)
arduino-ide9
flash9
sparkfun8
prototyping7
arduino7
continuous-integration7
platformio7
esp327
firmware7
esp82666
continuous-deployment6
iot5
crawler5
gps5
espressif5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
countryBumpkin/Projects
Apr 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:207 commits, 235 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
grwells/UofI_AdvRobotics
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:23 commits, 72 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
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