Cody Tapscott
Compiler Engineer at JuliaHub
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCody Tapscott is a compiler engineer and hybrid hardware/software developer based in New York with five years of experience building high-performance embedded systems and developer tools. He blends low-level C/C++, ARM assembly, and modern languages like Python and Julia to deliver optimized linear algebra, non-linear solvers, and compact data pipelines, and he has a strong academic bent toward enabling teams and customers. At Apple he cut debugging time dramatically by creating visualization and diagnostic tooling and championed infrastructure like CBOR and arena allocators to accelerate prototyping. Cody contributes to the Zig language core—improving features such as @bitCast and array initializer handling—bringing practical compiler improvements to a widely watched open-source toolchain. He holds an Electrical Engineering background from Rice and excels at turning mathematically informed algorithms (Kalman filtering, nonlinear least squares) into production-ready, resource-constrained implementations.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 4.073, Electrical Engineering, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 4.073 at Rice University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
bit10
bitwise10
compiler-design9
low-level-programming8
data-structures8
data-structure8
gnu-make6
makefile6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ziglang/zig
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:124 reviews, 163 commits, 64 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Cody's contributions focused on improving the Zig programming language, specifically enhancing the compilation and processing of code. They implemented and improved the `@bitCast` function, adding support for more types and improved handling of signs, also the handling of array initializer expressions. Furthermore, the user addressed compiler-rt issues.
purposecompilertoolchainzigprogramming-language
JuliaLang/AllocCheck.jl
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
AllocCheck
Contributions:2 releases, 13 reviews, 32 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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