Nate Damen
Research Engineer at ATLTVHEAD
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNate Damen is a research engineer based in Atlanta with eight years of experience building robotic systems, wearables, and data-driven ML prototypes. At Georgia Tech Research Institute he applies robotics and sensor data expertise, while his long-running ATLTVHEAD project blends interactive art, live-stream instance segmentation, gesture-recognition wearables, and custom data collection pipelines. He has led cross-cultural engineering teams and system deployments, driven dramatic hardware longevity gains in robotics, and holds patents pending on soft-robotic grippers. Nate pairs a Mechanical Engineering honors degree from Georgia Tech with a current MS in Computer Science, uniquely bridging hands-on hardware design (ROS, PLC, EOAT) and applied ML (TensorFlow, OpenCV, NLP). Comfortable shipping end-to-end—from embedded firmware to live-stream visuals and Twitch integrations—he brings a creative, experimental streak to production-grade engineering.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Honors, Bachelor's Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Honors at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (25)
teensy9
esp328
fastled8
arduino8
reddit8
pytorch8
realtime8
animation7
pycoral7
checker7
embedded7
instance-segmentation6
stock6
twitch5
cheerio5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ATLTVHEAD/yolact
Aug 2020 - Jan 2026
A simple, fully convolutional model for real-time instance segmentation.
Contributions:7 pushes in 5 years 5 months
pytorchsegmentationdeep-learningconvolutionalinstance-segmentation
ATLTVHEAD/Atltvhead-Gesture-Recognition-Bracer
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:35 commits, 127 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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