Conor Garrett

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience migrating a robotics project from ARM to AMD by building a Dockerized environment with PyTorch/CUDA dependencies, improving data processing and battery efficiency. Has integrated ROS 2 nodes for a Time-of-Flight camera and debugged motion-planning issues (tight-turn stopping) using data collection and iterative tuning; also built custom robots in Webots for sensor/actuator-driven behaviors.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building a distributed ticketing system on AWS (Terraform, Go, MySQL) focused on high-concurrency reliability (locks/queues to prevent duplicate ticket confirmations) and load-tested performance. Also independently owned and shipped an Airflow automation script to stop/restart workflows during deployments with email notifications, reducing manual operational effort.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds production FastAPI microservices and AWS serverless/Glue pipelines for SMS analytics and marketing segmentation. Led a legacy batch modernization into modular services (FastAPI + Glue/Athena + ClickHouse) using shadow-mode parity checks, feature flags, and incremental rollout. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (12s to sub-second SQL; ~40% CPU reduction) and strong incident ownership with proactive schema-drift prevention.”

“Built and launched a verified listings system for Burrow (student subleasing) after interviewing ~50 students about scam/fake listing concerns; chose a lightweight .edu-based verification approach to ship fast and then iterated with badges and clearer details, reducing churn from 15% to 7%. Also ran an LLM A/B test for auto-generating listing descriptions and improved trust/accuracy by updating prompts to prevent hallucinated details.”