Andrew Gazelka

Andrew is a Software Engineer with eight years of backend development experience, along with a specialized focus over the past two years on firmware and embedded systems. He has contributed to numerous open-source initiatives in Rust, and has a proven track record in designing and implementing asynchronous, low-latency firmware solutions. Notably, he played a key role in a Series-A startup now valued at over $100M. His creation of a compile-time-checked, graphable state machine library earned him a spot in a featured presentation at RustConf. Andrew blogs about his work at andrew.tech.

\smallheader{Work Experience}
\workentry{Speechify}{[Rust, TypeScript, Kotlin, Python] Contractor, ML Team}{April 2023—September 2023}
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   \item Worked on ML-adjacent data collection, data enhancement
   \item Improved performance of audio manipulation by 4x
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\workentry{Parallel Systems}{[Rust, C, C++, Python] Full-time, Firmware Engineer}{Aug 2021—April 2023}
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   \item Creator of \texttt{no-std}, compile-time-checked, graphable state machine library presented at \textit{RustConf 2022}:
   \item Developed Rust firmware and created a real-time async runtime and primitives to enhance async development experience on STMH7xx chips in a bare-metal environment. Implemented telemetry systems and communication protocol over raw TCP and UDP sockets.
   \item Contributor to embedded-rust initiatives—i.e.,\faGithub \, 
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\workentry{ExperienceIT}{[TypeScript, Dart (Flutter)] Full Stack Developer}{Dec 2019—Aug 2021}
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   \item Multi-million dollar company contracts for United Health Group, Anthem, and Scholarship America
   \item Worked both alone and with teams. Developed Flutter apps, Angular frontends, and worked on backend systems in NestJS and Java.
   \item Organized development effort and contributed to hiring decisions of software developers.
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\workentry{OneShotMC}{[Python, Kotlin, Java] Founder, Full Stack Developer}{Mar 2015—Aug 2020}
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   \item In-game shared hosting platform for Minecraft earning \$45,000
   \item Managed by team of around ten
   \item Over 100,000 unique visits
   \item \faYoutubePlay \, 
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\smallheader{Education}
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   \textbf{Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, University of Minnesota}          & Sep 2019–May 2021 \\
   \textbf{University of Minnesota Talented Youth Program, University of Minnesota} & Sep 2013–Dec 2018
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