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(Griffin uses they/them pronouns.)

Griffin is hands-on, artistic, and user-focused. They’ve worked mostly in media, data dashes, and other visually-intensive applications, and their side projects tilt that way too, like an implementation of an early speech-synthesis device from 1930s Bell Labs. Here's their description of that project:

This isn't the prettiest code I've written, it's several years [old] at this point, but the project still has a deep appeal to me. It's an emulation of an early form of speech synthesis called the VODER, and the history behind it is fascinating. Created by Bell Labs in the 1930s, was fully operated by human hands and my project allows you try your hand at operating a simplified interface for it. For me it's the music/sound angle, plus history, and highlighting someone who isn't always recognized in the history of the device. Also the design is modeled after the posters Bell Labs was using to advertise the VODER at the New York World's Fair, and I'm proud of how that turned out. Definitely try it with a physical keyboard though, it supports touch but it's not ideal.

Griffin’s interview result tilted towards the practical: coding and system design went well, bordering on excellently, and theoretical sections (particularly CS theory) were weaker. They had no trouble writing code quickly and well, and they gave the impression of having solved exactly the kind of problems we ask about in system design.