Hwei-shin Harriman
Software Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarHwei-shin Harriman is a software engineer and Ph.D. student in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University with eight years of hands-on development experience. Based in Pittsburgh, she blends full-stack expertise with research-driven rigor, contributing significant features to the popular open-source Penrose project—improving the synthesizer, cascading delete behavior, and SVG geometry handling. Her work shows attention to both user-facing diagram quality and internal system correctness, refactoring interfaces to make extensions cleaner and safer. Comfortable operating across frontend and backend boundaries, she turns complex notation-and-geometry problems into reliable, maintainable implementations.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
visualizations9
math9
visualization9
mathematics9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
react8
data-structure8
architectures7
architecture7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
penrose/penrose
Jun 2021 - Feb 2022
Create beautiful diagrams just by typing notation in plain text.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:21 reviews, 11 commits, 14 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Hwei-shin primarily contributed to the implementation of the Penrose synthesizer, adding new features and addressing existing issues. Their work included renaming and type change functionality, specifically modifying the SubstanceAnalysis and Synthesizer components. They were also responsible for the cascading delete feature, improving the system's efficiency by removing references to deleted statements. In addition, the user refactored the SVG path interface and added features for the geometry domain.
diagramssvgeulermathematicsjavascript
hsharriman/hsharriman.github.io
Jan 2019 - Dec 2024
My personal website! Made with React and Tailwind
Contributions:3 PRs, 90 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years
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