Brooks Rady
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBrooks Rady is an inquisitive software engineer and MSc biotechnology student based in Sheffield with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging molecular biology and systems programming. He’s an active open-source contributor known for backend work that extends terminal tooling and WebAssembly runtimes—contributions to projects like Zellij, Bandwhich, and Wasmer showcase practical WASM integration and performance-focused refactors. Equally comfortable authoring exercise scaffolding and documentation, Brooks has helped build learning tracks for Exercism while exploring functional languages such as Rust, Racket, Haskell, and Julia. His profile blends lab-driven curiosity with low-level systems craftsmanship, and he’s currently hunting for projects in emerging languages like Zig, Gleam, and Unison.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MBiolSci, Biotechnology, Master of Science - MBiolSci, Biotechnology at The University of Sheffield
Github Skills (20)
develop10
wasi10
templater10
template-engine10
networking10
common-lisp10
blazor-webassembly10
developper10
rust10
webassembly10
cli10
testing9
plugin9
dashboard9
git9
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
zellij-org/zellij
Nov 2020 - Apr 2022
A terminal workspace with batteries included
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 340 commits, 67 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Brooks made several commits focused on integrating WebAssembly (WASM) modules into the terminal workspace application. These commits included renaming code elements and modifying the main application file to load and execute WASM modules, particularly for tile functionality. They also addressed compilation issues and incorporated a build system script to optimize the WASM files. The overall goal appears to be extending the terminal capabilities with WASM-based plugins.
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exercism/v3
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
The work-in-progress project for developing v3 tracks
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 61 commits, 65 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Brooks contributed significantly to the development of the Common Lisp track, implementing and refining various concept exercises. Their work included creating new exercises, modifying existing ones, and generating scaffolding for new exercises. Furthermore, they were responsible for fixing bugs, updating configuration files, and ensuring proper formatting and documentation within the repository.
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