Summary
Nathaniel Gallagher is a laboratory technician and multidisciplinary engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience marrying field science and embedded/software development. Trained in oceanography, he supports research labs while designing and building scientific instruments—ranging from AVR- and Arduino-based motor controllers to shipboard sensor diagnostics—and has logged 1000+ hours on research vessels. He codes in C, Python, JavaScript and Fortran, has built Django web projects and time-lapse motion controllers (Charlotte), and handles Linux admin, data workflows and lab molecular techniques like PCR and SDS-PAGE. Comfortable at the intersection of wet lab, electronics, and software, he excels at turning research needs into robust, testable tools and operational procedures.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sci., Oceanography, B.Sci., Oceanography at Humboldt State University
German, Hebrew, Spanish, Japanese, French