Timothy Truty
Research Computer Scientist at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
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Top SchoolTimothy Truty is a Research Computer Scientist with a decade of experience building embedded systems, cloud data pipelines, and research-grade applications for mobility and medical-device studies. He combines hands-on firmware (nRF52), mobile app (Ionic/Capacitor, Unity, AR), and cloud/SQL skills to deliver solutions that power prosthetics, wheelchair monitoring, VR/AR training, and phantom limb therapies. Comfortable across the stack, he translates clinical needs into secure, deployable prototypes and production tools while coordinating with ISSO and research teams. Known as a tinkerer who breaks things to understand them, he brings practical creativity to cross-disciplinary problems at the intersection of hardware, sensors, and human health. Based in Saint Paul, MN, he pairs an IT master’s with field experience in longitudinal clinical studies, making him adept at both device engineering and research data stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Psychology, minor: Gerontology, Bachelor's degree, Psychology, minor: Gerontology at Illinois State University
Github Skills (38)
git9
github9
patch8
subversion7
eeprom6
enclosure6
clause6
creative-commons5
open-hardware5
dac5
kicad5
gitbook5
commons4
firmware4
hardware4
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ttruty/object-detector
May 2018 - Apr 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
ttruty/GaitTestGui
Dec 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:1 release, 51 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
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