Gabriel Britain
Software Engineer at Drillbit (YC S24)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Britain is a software engineer who blends human-computer interaction with wearable AR and mixed reality to redefine everyday computing. He is currently a Software Engineer at Drillbit (YC S24), with prior roles at Stripe and Microsoft where he helped implement the Mixed Reality Design Language across Microsoft Mesh. Based in Austin, Texas, he holds an MS in Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech and a BS in Computer Science from Texas A&M, bringing nine years of experience across startups and tech giants. As Tech Lead for TAMUhack, he architected and launched an open-source event registration system and landing-page platform used by thousands of users, and his early work at Google and Google Health focused on real-time data pipelines and UI enhancements. He also mentors students as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and contributes to the broader developer community, pairing hands-on engineering with design thinking to turn complex requirements into practical, user-centered solutions.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Human-Computer Interaction, 4.0, Master's degree, Human-Computer Interaction, 4.0 at Georgia Tech, MS in Human-Computer Interaction (MS-HCI)Master's degree, Human Computer Interaction, 4.0, Master's degree, Human Computer Interaction, 4.0 at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.72, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.72 at Texas A&M University
Spanish, English
Github Skills (130)
material-ui10
representations10
django10
map-generation10
elasticsearch-client10
reactjs10
nodejs10
procedural-generation10
react10
aggregator9
react-components9
javascript9
client-library9
cartography9
rest9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
SaltyQuetzals/TAMU-Howdy-Data
Mar 2020 - Jun 2022
JSON representations of Texas A&M University data, updated monthly.
Contributions:8 releases, 4 PRs, 17 pushes in 2 years 4 months
texasupdatedjsonrepresentations
SaltyQuetzals/CSCE-315-Team-3
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Implementation of https://ecologylab.net/courses/studio/assignments/team1.html
Contributions:51 PRs, 72 pushes, 53 branches in 17 days
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