Brian Railing
Associate Teaching Professor
Greater Pittsburgh Region United States
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Top SchoolBrian Railing is an Associate Teaching Professor in Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science department with 12 years of experience bridging rigorous research and hands-on systems instruction. He co-instructs advanced systems courses alongside research faculty, translating cutting-edge topics in operating systems and computer architecture into effective classroom experiences. His background includes kernel performance analysis as a former Microsoft SDE and a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, giving him a rare combination of industrial-scale systems debugging and academic research expertise. Based in the Pittsburgh region, he mentors students through complex systems projects and has repeatedly served as instructor of record for advanced architecture and programming languages courses, highlighting a sustained commitment to teaching-intensive scholarship.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBS, Computer Science, Philosophy, Physics, BS, Computer Science, Philosophy, Physics at Carnegie Mellon University
French, English
Stackoverflow
2,753reputation
213kreached
57answers
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llvm
top-5%
windows
top-5%
Github Skills (18)
dataflow-programming10
instrumentation10
cilk10
openmp10
pthreads10
llvm9
parallel9
graph-algorithms9
windows9
graph9
flow-based-programming9
kernel6
llvm-ir6
graph-traversal6
cpu6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bprail/cadss_public
Mar 2023 - Nov 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
bprail/exam-time
Dec 2021 - Jun 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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