Elena Ackley
Senior Computer Programmer at ackleyshack LLC
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolElena Ackley is a seasoned senior computer programmer with over three decades of hands-on experience designing and delivering robust, well-tested systems across research, finance, and academia. Now retired and based in Albuquerque, she maintains and advances 'ulam', an open-source compiler and language for active media grounded in living-systems principles (announced at ECAL 2015), with version 5 released in 2022. Her career blends low-level assembly work for large-scale transaction processing with research software for real-time MRI and novel prototypes like a Negative Database, reflecting a rare mix of systems, algorithmic, and research-driven thinking. She founded and runs ackleyshack LLC, approaching projects as personal commitments and prioritizing usability, documentation, and testing. Elena holds an MS in Computer Science and an MBA, and her ongoing open-source stewardship shows a sustained curiosity about computation as a medium for living, artistic systems.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
4.167, 4.167 at Northeast HSMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at The University of New MexicoMaster of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Pepperdine University, The George L. Graziadio School of Business and ManagementBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at University of Florida
Github Skills (13)
compiler-optimization10
compiler10
reference-implementation10
programming-language10
cobol10
mercury10
feast10
perl10
simulator10
movable10
octave10
compiler-design9
cpp9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
elenasa/MFM
Nov 2015 - Jun 2024
Movable Feast Machine C++ reference implementation and simulator
Contributions:101 PRs, 177 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years 8 months
movablecppc-plus-plussimulatorfeast
elenasa/ULAM
Aug 2014 - Jan 2023
Compiler for MFM programming language
Contributions:2799 commits, 162 PRs, 1258 pushes in 8 years 6 months
compilersmfmmercurycobolcompiler
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