Izaak Walton
Software Engineer - Quantum Programming at Neighborhood Music Stapleton
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolIzaak Walton is a compiler engineer in Los Angeles with five years of hands-on experience building language tooling that connects developer workflows and runtime systems. Trained as a professional violinist with advanced music degrees, he brings a musician’s discipline and pattern-recognition skills to designing compilers and language infrastructure. Comfortable bridging creative and technical domains, he pairs Lisp-friendly thinking with practical engineering to simplify complex tooling problems. Though early in his engineering career, his background suggests unusual strengths in attention to detail, iterative refinement, and thinking about systems composition from both algorithmic and human-centered perspectives.
5 years of coding experience
Master’s of Music, Violin Performance, Master’s of Music, Violin Performance at University of DenverBachelor’s of Music, Violin Performance, English Minor, Music Performance, General, Bachelor’s of Music, Violin Performance, English Minor, Music Performance, General at University of Georgia - Franklin College of Arts and SciencesPaideia School
English, Russian, French
Github Skills (41)
lambda-calculus10
type-safety10
lenses10
common-lisp10
functional-programming10
functional-programming-language10
lisp10
programming-language9
interpreter9
formulas9
compiler9
simulator7
sd-card7
nim-lang7
fsm-library7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Izaakwltn/scaleyourviolin
Jan 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:35 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
Izaakwltn/vibratsia
Oct 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:38 commits, 15 pushes in 7 months
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