Bennett Gilligwrites cool code sometimesCollege junior who's interested in writing high-performance code, open source software and rhythm games. Read more on my personal website: andorlando.github.io.
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Education
University of Massachusetts Amherst09/2022-05/2026
GPA3.94 (Honors College, Dean's List)
MajorsComputer Science, Computer Engineering
Coursework(2024) Hardware Organization and Design, Operating Systems, Introduction to Algorithms, Introduction to Software Engineering, (2023) Introduction to Computation, Computer Systems Principles, Programming Methodology, Differential Equations, (2022) Calculus III, Data Structures
Experience
System Level Debug Engineer Intern for Intel05/2024-08/2024
  • Created an internal tool to keep track of state across test systems, host systems and a wiki for SLD and Lab Techs
  • Created a debug tool that hooks into a seperate debug tool to test plugins. Works for both client and DCAI plugins
  • Created a tool to standardize, locate and categorize entries into a bug-tracking database for future debugging efforts
  • Ramped up on Intel Xeon Architecture and IPs and learned basic fuse debug
Lab Leader for Digital Ready06/2023-09/2023
  • Supervised and mentored high-school students for through a Roxbury Community College course
  • Oversaw deliverables such as a Python card game project, portfolio website and Google certificates in IT and UI/UX
  • Authored and delivered lectures, labs and activities
Tutoring/Teaching2021-present
  • 2x Undergraduate Course Assistant for Computer Systems Principles
  • Undergraduate Course Assistant for Introduction to Computation
  • Volunteered as tutor for Cambridge School Volunteers
  • Volunteered as Teaching Assistant for AP Computer Science A
Project Lead for BUILD UMass pro bono09/2022-present
  • Prototyped and implemented blog website for IUCG using the MERN stack and AWS S3 cloud object storage
  • Collaborated with client iteratively throughout development
  • Oversaw a team of 6 software developers and 2 project managers
Projects
Hackathon Wins2023-2024
  • RISC-V.js won Best Software and Best Security out of 64 projects in HackUMassXI. Emulated a RISC-V processor (rv32ima) in the browser and could run (almost) any arbitrary binary compiled for its instruction set
  • Bad Apple in Google Calendar won Cutest Hack out of 36 projects in HackHer413. Used ffmpeg to turn a video into frames, in house javascript code to turn frames into scaled pixel matrices and then into more optimized calendar events, then the Google Calendar API in order to upload them to a calendar
Rubato2020-2022
  • Inbetweening library for awesomeWM written in Lua
  • Animates positions by calculating a numeric integral of a velocity graph for the animation, resulting in a continuous velocity graph. This allows me to chain animations together mathematically perfectly, resulting in clean interruptions
  • ~1900 peak biweekly downloads and ~240 stars on GitHub, is the premier animation library for awesomeWM
save-manager2023
  • Cross-platform version control for files at arbitrary locations written in Rust
  • Fully fleshed out command line interface including subcommands and flags using clap
  • CLI inspired by git branches in order to allow saving and loading with no other arguments
Skills
languages
JavaScript
TypeScript
C
C++
Rust
R
Java
Kotlin
Python
SQL
Assembly
Matlab
frameworks/libraries
Express
React
NumPy
Tkinter
Sqlite
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Docker
other skills
Git
Regex
MatLab
Linux
NixOS
Google Cloud
AWS
Operating Systems
REST Apis