Cassandra Laffan
Rust Developer at Toronto Metropolitan University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCassandra Laffan is a backend Rust developer and PhD candidate in computer science based in Toronto with nine years of hands-on experience spanning low-level systems (C/C++) to high-level stacks (Python/TypeScript). She combines research in haptics and robotics with practical engineering, currently building production Rust services at Vaultie while teaching and mentoring university students. Formerly a technical team lead at the Canadian Department of National Defence, she has led small teams to modernize and cloud-enable legacy processes using Azure, Kubernetes, React and PostgreSQL. Cassandra’s background in hardware-interfacing projects gives her a rare cross-disciplinary perspective that informs safer, more performant systems. She publishes and teaches code openly on GitHub, pairing academic rigor with pragmatic delivery.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Computer Science at Toronto Metropolitan UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Software Engineering at York UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Toronto Metropolitan University
English
Github Skills (6)
minecraft7
placement7
np-complete5
pathfinding4
astar4
python3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cassLaffan/Minecraft_Pathfinding
Jun 2021 - Jun 2022
A public repo for pathfinding algorithms in Minecraft
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 63 commits in 1 year
minecraftpublic-repoplacementpathfinding-algorithmsastar
cassLaffan/IPC144
Jul 2022 - Mar 2023
Example Code for IPC144 Summer 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 8 months
summer
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