Evan Gates is an accomplished embedded software engineer with extensive experience in designing, implementing, and testing embedded software, developing low-level software, and bringing up boards. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Evan has a strong passion for simplicity and a profound love of C and the Unix philosophy. He enjoys writing compact, orthogonal tools, and combining them in powerful ways, gluing tools together with a shell script. Evan's experience extends to probing lines with an oscilloscope or protocol analyzer during board bring-up, making architectural decisions, and refining requirements with product management.

As a Lead Embedded Software Engineer at GNARBOX, Evan leads the development of embedded software applications and builds software stacks for GNARBOX's portable backup, editing and sharing systems that work with cameras and mobile devices. Prior to that, Evan worked as a Senior Software Consultant at Red Embedded and a Software Engineer II at Ixia specializing in developing protocol test tools for the networking industry. He also interned for several companies, including Xirrus and Green Hills Software, where he honed his research and development, product design, and testing skills.

In summary, Evan Gates is an embedded software engineer extraordinaire with expertise in writing compact, orthogonal tools, developing low-level software, and making larger architectural decisions. His experience ranges from board bring-up and testing to product design and management.