Emma Turetsky
Research Software Engineer at Morgridge Institute for Research
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolEmma Turetsky is a Research Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and research-driven tooling, currently developing Golang-based open data hosting and transfer platforms at the Morgridge Institute for Research. She has a strong research software background from UW–Madison, where she contributed to program analysis tools and published work involving Newton’s method and novel automata/BDD structures. At GrammaTech she translated cutting-edge static analysis research into production-ready systems, implementing machine learning and RNN-based solutions in Python for program understanding and decompilation tasks. Comfortable across languages and stages of development, she’s shipped REST APIs, custom servers, and batch testing infrastructures for government research projects. Based in Madison, WI, Emma blends academic rigor with practical engineering—an unusual mix that lets her move theoretical algorithms into reliable, auditable software.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Arts - BA Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Mathematics and Computer Science at Carleton College
Github Skills (20)
forge10
weighted9
aix9
storage9
dfa9
tarball8
conda8
dependency-analysis7
conda-forge7
automaton7
pelican7
distributed-file-system7
source-code-analysis6
abstract-interpretation6
program-analysis5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
turetske/pelicanfs
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
An ffspec implementation that uses the pelican client
Contributions:70 pushes, 23 branches in 11 months
turetske/etpelican
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
The Pelican command line tool
Contributions:2 PRs, 346 pushes, 129 branches in 1 year 6 months
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