Brent Pappas
Graduate Research Assistant
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolBrent Pappas is a graduate teaching associate and PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Central Florida with roughly a decade of hands-on experience spanning research, QA automation, and instructional roles. He teaches programming courses with publicly available lecture series and focuses his research on using static analysis to enhance the security of languages like C. Proficient in Python, Brent has automated testing pipelines in industry and applied agile QA practices to mobile and web applications. He pairs classroom teaching and peer tutoring experience with research rigor, bringing a practitioner’s perspective to secure software tooling. Outside of tech he’s an avid learner with eclectic hobbies — from unicycling and juggling to ukulele — a trait that fuels curiosity-driven problem solving. Based in Orlando, he maintains a personal website that showcases his teaching and projects.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Cooper City High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Stackoverflow
402reputation
7kreached
18answers
2questions
Github Skills (103)
appwrite10
xor10
converting10
c-preprocessor10
vim-plugin10
vim10
lua10
representations10
nvim10
vast10
markdown10
javascript10
dsa-algorithm10
api10
irs10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
PappasBrent/vgm_downloader
Sep 2018 - May 2021
A simple and convenient way to download VGM with Python
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
vgmpython
appleseedlab/cpp2c
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Program for converting C preprocessor usage to C constructs
Contributions:3 reviews, 1038 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year
c-preprocessorcppconvertingpreprocessorpe-analyzer
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