Carl Quinn
Software Engineer at Zoox
Portola Valley, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorCarl Quinn is a versatile software engineer and architect based in Portola Valley, California, with 14 years of experience turning ambiguous ideas into production-ready systems and teams. He thrives in loosely structured environments, favoring pragmatic automation and sound engineering that avoids rework. Skilled across languages, frameworks, graphics/multimedia, cryptography, and UI, he brings strong object-oriented design and framework-building experience. An active open-source contributor, he made substantive back-end and cross-platform runtime contributions to the Pony language compiler and tooling, including Windows process manager support. Comfortable adopting unfamiliar technologies, he excels at synthesizing complex problems into clear, implementable solutions. Colleagues rely on him to move quickly from prototype to robust product while keeping engineering quality front and center.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
31reputation
405reached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (16)
process-management10
pony10
actor-model10
cli10
testing10
ws-api9
winapi9
wp-api9
compiler-design9
sh6
bash-shell6
shell6
script6
bash6
ant6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ponylang/ponyc
Jan 2016 - Feb 2019
Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 14 PRs, 107 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Carl primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Pony compiler and its related tools, specifically the CLI package. Their work includes implementing the initial CLI package, adding features like string sequences, command fullnames, and error handling. The user also focused on fixing bugs related to the runtime and compiler, such as printing empty strings and handling triple-quote comments. Furthermore, the user implemented a Windows implementation of the process manager, including the pipe and process features, with the goal of expanding the range of supported platforms.
securehorseponyponycpony-source
Netflix-Skunkworks/post2crucible
Apr 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:27 commits in 10 months
uploadercruciblereview
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