Emil Hofstetter
SDE Intern at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmil Hofstetter is an SDE intern and rising software engineer with four years of hands-on experience building scalable backend services and infrastructure, currently working at AWS. He has a track record of delivering automation that measurably reduces engineering and DevOps effort—features he shipped cut ticket creation time from 10 to 2 minutes and reduced manual hours by up to 90%. Emil contributes low-level performance optimizations in open-source Rust projects (notably improving an LRU cache by removing unsafe blocks and introducing benchmarks) and has rewritten cloud Lambdas in Rust to boost efficiency. Comfortable across ExpressJS APIs, Python backends, and React front-ends, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a focus on performance and developer experience. Based in Virginia and studying Computer Science at James Madison University, he brings both production internship experience and a curious, collaborative mindset to engineering teams.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, ENGINEERING, High School Diploma, ENGINEERING at Robinson SecondaryBachelor's degree, Engineering, Undergrad, Bachelor's degree, Engineering, Undergrad at James Madison University
German, French
Github Skills (10)
algorithm10
data-structures10
memory-management10
algorithms10
caching10
rust10
performance-optimization10
data-structure10
unsafe9
benchmark9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
jeromefroe/lru-rs
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
An implementation of a LRU cache
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Emil's contributions center around optimizing the performance and efficiency of an LRU cache implementation. They removed unnecessary unsafe blocks, changed the data structure to use pointers instead of owned entries, and introduced a benchmark function to evaluate performance. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to change some mutable borrows to mutable pointers. These changes indicate a focus on low-level optimizations.
lrucachelru-cache
emilHof/sling
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:4 reviews, 57 commits, 1 PR in 24 days
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