Ashton Wiersdorf
PhD Student Research Assistant at University of Utah College of Engineering
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolAshton Wiersdorf is a PhD student and research assistant at the University of Utah specializing in programming languages, with 13 years of software experience and a strong background in functional and metaprogramming techniques. He has driven production improvements and research-led implementations—most notably improving an interpreter at Spiff through experimental proofs-of-concept that became core to the product. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, he has built metacircular interpreters in Elixir/Erlang, introduced modern tooling at BYU, and continues to seek research-heavy roles in language design and implementation. Based in Salt Lake City, he balances rigorous technical work with life outside the lab as a contrabass-playing, chocolate-loving hiker and devoted father. An Emacs power-user and self-described metaprogramming “sorcerer,” he prefers focused collaborations and asks cold contacts to demonstrate they’ve read his bio.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Brigham Young University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
hugo-theme10
hugo10
mojolicious10
perl10
shortcode10
melpa10
emacs-lsp10
emacs-lisp10
latex10
emacs10
elisp10
scalable10
documentation-theme10
opentype10
fonts10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ashton314/.dotfiles
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
My most important configuration files
Contributions:5 reviews, 689 commits, 4 PRs in 3 years 3 months
configurationconfiguration-filesconfigdotfilesimportant
ashton314/lambda-x86
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
Lambda Calculus compiler targeting x86, written in Racket
Contributions:73 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 2 months
aplcalculuslambda-calculuscompilerx86
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