Gavin Stark
Senior Software Engineer at Garmin
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolGavin Stark is a senior software engineer with 11 years of professional experience and a decade-plus hobbyist background in programming and electronics, currently building systems at Garmin from his base in the Kansas City area. He began in C and evolved into a polyglot developer with deep interests in low-level systems, particularly the Linux kernel and graphics/compute APIs like Vulkan. Gavin has contributed to open source and routinely publishes personal projects on GitHub, showcasing a hands-on, experimental approach to systems programming. His career includes roles across Cerner, UMB Bank, and Garmin, where he blends embedded and systems expertise with production software delivery. Notably, his work often straddles electronics and software, reflecting a rare practical comfort with hardware-adjacent low-level code as well as higher-level engineering.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Github Skills (40)
kotlin10
java10
launcher10
tox9
android9
audio9
opengl-es8
file-transfer8
encryption8
voice8
voip8
astronomy8
messaging8
qt7
opengl7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gstark31897/octengine-vulkan
Mar 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:175 commits, 2 PRs, 157 pushes in 10 months
gstark667/www
Oct 2019 - Aug 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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