Summary
Garrett Sickles is a Software Development Engineer II with 13 years of experience building systems that span embedded software, routing and navigation, and distributed cloud services. He has progressed through roles at Churchill Navigation, Verizon, and multiple teams within Amazon and AWS, shipping production features in mapping, FinTech, and Scout. With a BS in Geophysical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, Garrett applies geophysical intuition and optimization expertise to routing and mapping problems, and enjoys deep dives into modern cryptography and algorithms in his spare time. Comfortable across the stack from low-level embedded work to large-scale distributed architectures, he blends practical engineering with a research-minded curiosity inspired by Knuth and the Earth Gravity Model.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Geophysical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Geophysical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines