Brandon Garate is a Research Assistant at San Diego State University Research Foundation - Interwork Institute, inferred to be located in San Diego, California. He is also associated with San Diego State University, where his field of study is Computer Science. Brandon has approximately 3 years of experience and is currently open to work. His technical work includes LTE IoT performance research, firmware-level power optimization for embedded devices, AWS IoT pipelines, and ML/LLM prototypes. He is also involved with CoTeX.md and a SIGCSE TS’25 paper on integrating 3D printing into elementary curriculum. He is interested in technical architecture and developer marketing.

LTE IoT performance research and firmware-level power optimization for embedded devices using ESP-IDF, LTE modules, TLS, and secure boot. AWS IoT pipelines using AWS IoT Core, Lambda, and DynamoDB. CoTeX.md, an Electron/React desktop app with a Go/Supabase backend. ML/LLM prototypes including Fullstack-RAG using FAISS and SentenceTransformers, and YOLO-Object-Tracking utilizing YOLOv8. A SIGCSE TS’25 paper on integrating 3D printing into elementary curriculum.