Brent Pappas
Graduate Teaching Associate
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.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
I graduated from Cooper City ranked 15 out of 497 students, placing me in the top 5% of my class with an academic core GPA of 4.3725. Additionally, while in high school I took on 12 advanced placement courses and passed all of them. Throughout all of high school I had to balance my participation in sports with my studies, and in my last two years of high school I did all of this in addition to working part-time as a busboy at the Club Nineteen restaurant.
Highest SAT scores:
- Reading and Writing: 790
- Math: 670
Highest ACT score: 29, I graduated from Cooper City ranked 15 out of 497 students, placing me in the top 5% of my class with an academic core GPA of 4.3725. Additionally, while in high school I took on 12 advanced placement courses and passed all of them. Throughout all of high school I had to balance my participation in sports with my studies, and in my last two years of high school I did all of this in addition to working part-time as a busboy at the Club Nineteen restaurant.
Highest SAT scores:
- Reading and Writing: 790
- Math: 670
Highest ACT score: 29 at Cooper City High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
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Github Skills (86)
appwrite10
c-preprocessor10
vim10
lua10
nvim10
clang10
markdown10
javascript10
dsa-algorithm10
api10
text-editor10
extensibility10
neovim10
octave9
program-analysis9
Programming languages (16)
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
trailofbits/macroni
May 2023 - Aug 2024
C and C++ compiler frontend using PASTA to parse code, and VAST to represent the code as MLIR.
Contributions:33 reviews, 49 PRs, 126 pushes in 1 year 3 months
compilercppfrontend
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