Artem Pelenitsyn
Postdoctoral Researcher at Purdue University
Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolArtem Pelenitsyn is a Postdoctoral Researcher and compiler engineer with 14 years of experience specializing in programming languages, functional programming, and high-performance computing. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern University and has a strong academic track record across institutions in the US and Europe. Artem is an active contributor to flagship Haskell projects—having implemented core GHC compiler refactorings, fixed floating-point precision issues, and helped shape proposals to make the threaded runtime the default. He combines deep theory with practical systems work, improving dependency management and QA for Cabal while tightening base library reliability. Based in Lafayette, Indiana, he blends academic rigor with hands-on open-source stewardship, maintaining a rare mix of typechecker-aware compiler internals and real-world build/tooling fixes. Colleagues describe him as a “fictional” Haskell cabal maintainer with a real impact on GHC’s correctness and usability.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityMaster's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University)
Русский, Английский
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Github Skills (22)
dependency-management10
package-management10
multithreading10
compiler-development10
testing10
compiler-design10
thread10
hyper-threading10
ghc10
cabal10
threaded10
haskell10
documentation10
float329
floating-point9
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
haskell/cabal
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:3 releases, 1185 reviews, 64 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Artem primarily contributed to the Cabal project by addressing issues related to dependency management, specifically around setup dependencies. They implemented checks for upper bounds on dependencies, added and fixed tests to ensure the correctness of these checks. Furthermore, the user improved error messages for invalid arguments. Also, they fixed documentation typos and improved wording in the documentation.
hackagecabalhaskellupstream
ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals
Mar 2019 - Jul 2019
Proposed compiler and language changes for GHC and GHC/Haskell
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 19 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Artem primarily contributed to a proposal for the GHC compiler, focusing on making the threaded runtime the default. Their work involved drafting the proposal, refining its specifications, and addressing concerns about potential performance impacts and interactions with existing features. They also updated the proposal based on discussions and added links to relevant resources.
language-changesghchaskellcabalcompiler
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