# Gavin Groode

> Software Engineer at Opaque Systems

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gavingroode

Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead at Opaque Systems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Opaque Systems
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Research Intern @ Berkeley SETI Research Center
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States
Berkeley SETI is part of a wider organization working to find evidence of Intelligent Extraterrestrial life.
- Helping create new Breakthrough Listen website in Django & Wagtail; Refactoring Open Data Archive into Django & Angular from previous implementation in Javascript & Flask for future sustainability and integration into new site
- Implemented a series of additional filtering options and cadence search to both the frontend and backend of the public data archive using Python and SQL; Optimized cadence search runtime by ~1200x
- Integrated Redis data into the Open Data Archive (http://seti.berkeley.edu/opendata) to grade file “quality”

### CS61b (Data Structures) Course Tutor @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California
- Conducted 2 small group tutoring sections each week
- Hosted office hours, designed supplemental course material, and graded homework and exams for 1000+ students

### Research Apprentice @ Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at UC Berkeley
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California, United States
This project was aiming to understand how spatial memory and recall is handled in the hippocampus, via mice on a VR track.
- Designed and created a program that parses, summarizes, and displays all information output from the virtual reality system in a Human Readable format.

### Data Science Intern @ Internet Brands
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | El Segundo, California
- Implemented a searchable database with data visualizations via AWS and Tableau by extracting data from an online forum; Led this project initiative by iterating with the business team to ensure requirements were satisfied
- Demonstrated proficiency with a selection of machine learning algorithms and techniques (neural networks, NLTK, principal component analysis, random forests, etc.) as part of the onboarding process

### Junior Mentor - CS61A (The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) @ Computer Science Mentors
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California
- Taught a supplemental section to a group of 3-4 students each week; Created a guide to Scheme macros

### Academic Intern - CS61A (The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California
- Guided students in weekly 30-person instructional labs as a floating assistant
- Held weekly office hours to answer further questions students had

### Ulab Research Mentee @ Undergraduate Lab @ Berkeley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California
- Developed a research proposal and optimized error minimization for exoplanet transit photography through convolutional neural networks and other machine learning techniques
- Strengthened python skills for use in exoplanet data analysis. Research and develop project ideas related to the topic of planet characterization and habitability.
- Designed organizational tool to sort planetary information.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Physics and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### High School Diploma
Van Nuys Senior High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ggroode

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Last updated: 2026-03-29