Daroc Alden
Editor at Linux Weekly News
Montpelier, Vermont, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaroc Alden is a software engineer and editor based in Montpelier, Vermont, with 11 years of experience building systems at the intersection of security, networking, and programming languages. His master's thesis applied goal-directed search to automatically identify ROP exploits in compiled binaries, reflecting a strong background in applied security research. Professionally he has shipped work across high-performance networked storage, networked audio testing, and internal DSLs for data analytics at organizations ranging from UNH IOL to NetApp and Bridgewater. As a founding engineer at a startup and now an editor at Linux Weekly News, he blends hands-on implementation with clear technical communication. He contributes algorithmic implementations in Haskell to large community datasets (notably the OpenGenus cosmos repo), signaling a taste for elegant, language-oriented solutions. Outside work he invents both spoken and programming languages, a creative habit that informs his approach to DSLs and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Lebanon High SchoolMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
data-structures10
algorithms10
data-structure10
haskell10
sorting-algorithms10
greedy-algorithms9
dynamic-programming8
quest7
topological-sort7
question-answering7
que7
c-library6
common-library6
standard-library6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
OpenGenus/cosmos
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
World's largest Contributor driven code dataset | Used in Quark Search Engine, @OpenGenus IQ, OpenGenus Visual Project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 7 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Daroc contributed several Haskell implementations of algorithms and data structures to the Cosmos repository, including radix sort, the Sieve of Eratosthenes, topological sort, edit distance calculation, and the largest contiguous sum in an array. They also provided an implementation of minimum coins using a greedy approach. These additions enhance the repository's collection of algorithmic solutions.
datastructuresinternshipcontributordatasetopengenus
setupminimal/PyJulia
Oct 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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