Caspian Baska
Senior Software Engineer at Decolonial Hacker
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolCaspian Baska is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with eight years of experience building systems-focused web and IoT applications, currently developing a solar design platform to boost installer productivity. A passionate advocate for strongly typed functional languages, he is an active contributor to the Crystal programming language—having modified core features, refined data structures like Deque, and added Enumerable#tally_by—bringing compiler-level experience to application engineering. He blends systems engineering, automation and decentralised-technology thinking with hands-on full-stack delivery from previous roles as Lead Platform Engineer and technical lead across research and cultural projects. Caspian also collaborates with media artists as a technical consultant and co-creator, and pursues sustainable and renewable tech opportunities that align with his values. An unusual strength is his comfort operating across both low-level language internals and higher-level product delivery, making him effective at bridging developer tooling and user-facing systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
UNSW Sydney
English, Chinese, Norwegian
Github Skills (8)
enumerable10
programming-language10
language-design10
crystal-lang10
refactoring9
compiler-compiler9
compiler9
testing7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
crystal-lang/crystal
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
The Crystal Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 37 commits, 56 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Caspian contributed to the Crystal programming language repository by modifying core language features and standard library components. Their work included refactoring code related to the `Deque` data structure, improving hash-related functionalities, and updating the logging context. They also addressed deprecated features and improved code consistency within the language's source code. Further contributions included supporting the `Path` type in `Process` methods and implementing the `Enumerable#tally_by` method.
esoteric-languagecrystallanguage-designcompilerprogramming-language
spider-gazelle/rethinkdb-orm
Jan 2019 - Jul 2022
RethinkDB ORM for Crystal lang
Contributions:20 releases, 7 reviews, 232 commits in 3 years 5 months
crystal-langcrystalsqlrethinkdblang
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