Elias Basler is a software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently building vehicle maintenance software and flight simulators at Boeing with a strong emphasis on large-scale C++ development. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, where he specialized in embedded systems and computer security and graduated with a 3.90 GPA. His background includes hands-on research demonstrating remote side-channel attacks on FPGA designs and teaching computer architecture, digital logic, and cryptography courses. Elias contributes to open-source testing efforts—helping improve SymPy’s test suite and matrix solver correctness—which complements his focus on reliability and QA in complex systems. Based in Chattanooga, he blends low-level embedded insight with practical production software skills, making him effective at bridging hardware-proximate security concerns and large enterprise codebases.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, B.S. in Computer Engineering, 3.90, Bachelor's degree, B.S. in Computer Engineering, 3.90 at Washington University in St. Louis
Contributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 4 comments in 26 days
Contributions summary:Elias primarily contributed to the testing suite of the sympy/sympy repository. Their commits focused on adding new tests for specific issues, including issues related to series and limits, and also to matrix solvers. The user's work involved modifying existing test files and adding new test cases to cover different scenarios within the symbolic mathematics library. They also corrected the placement of free variables in the gauss_jordan_solve function and added tests for this function.
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 9 months
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