Cassandra Recher
Independent Software Developer at Game Development
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolCassandra Recher is an independent software developer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building production software across consumer, developer, and tooling domains. She spent nearly a decade at Google in engineering and developer programs roles, followed by a senior engineering stint at Atlassian, and now develops an indie game end-to-end as an independent creator. Cassandra has strong back-end and language tooling expertise—her open-source contributions include a Swift lexer for Google's popular code-prettify and Markdown-to-Codelab parsing work for Google Codelabs. She moves comfortably between systems-level parsing, developer UX, and application development, with early experience in full-stack web and desktop apps using C#, JavaScript, and SQL. Known for shipping thoughtful parsing and formatting improvements, she brings a pragmatic focus on developer-facing features that scale. Her background in computer science from Arizona State and hands-on product work make her equally effective prototyping new ideas and hardening them for production.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Arizona State University, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
English
Stackoverflow
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2kreached
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Github Skills (18)
markdown10
lexer10
syntax-highlighter10
regular-expression10
highlighter10
go10
markdown-it10
parsing10
html-parsing10
parse10
swift10
lex10
syntax-highlighting10
text-processing9
software-design8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
googlecodelabs/tools
Feb 2016 - Oct 2022
Codelabs management & hosting tools
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 82 reviews, 428 commits in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Cassandra implemented Markdown to Codelab parsing functionality within the repository, focusing on the `claat/parser/md/parse.go` file. The commits demonstrate a deep understanding of Markdown processing, specifically within the context of converting Markdown to HTML, and integrating this with the Codelab's parsing process. Additionally, the user fixed comments on code review and added autospacing around italics in the Markdown rendering logic.
hostingcodelabs
googlearchive/code-prettify
Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
An embeddable script that makes source-code snippets in HTML prettier.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 5 PRs, 3 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Cassandra primarily contributed to the development of a Swift language handler within the code-prettify repository. They focused on implementing the lexer for the Swift language. Their contributions included adding support for whitespace, comments, keywords, string literals, integer literals, floating point literals, punctuation, and types. These changes enhanced the ability of the script to correctly parse and highlight Swift code snippets.
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