Garmin Epitaph

The following is my goodbye email to Garmin, with names censored.

I joined Garmin in 2017, during my junior year of college. Bright eyed and bushy tailed, I drove to Los Angeles for my first internship at the Los Angeles office. It was an awesome opportunity, and I can’t thank S.S. enough for it.

Shortly after, I joined the Rolla office under T.S. I got my first taste of aviation software, working on an uncertified tool for Interfaces. I learned a lot from my mentor, A.H., and just as much from an unofficial mentor, B.B. A year had passed, and I started full time; but T.S. stayed a mentor to me since.

I started on M.T.'s team in June of last year. My only hardware experience was making lights blink on a microcontroller from the 80s and wiring a 10U nano-satellite to be launched off the ISS, so there was a bit of a knowledge gap. But my awesome team took me in, showed me the ropes, and only made fun of me a little. I learned several ways to do many things, and many ways to not do several things.

All in all, Garmin has been an incredible journey.

I want to thank my awesome team, both hardware and software, for always being dependable and knowledgable. I want to thank V.R. for keeping the project on track. I want to thank R.S., for being such an ace officemate/mentor/friend, and being so incredibly resilient to strobe lights and loud EDM music. I want to thank M.T. and T.S., for taking me in and giving me this incredible opportunity.

And I want to thank you, for making Garmin so memorable. :)