Joe Politz
Associate Teaching Professor
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Politz is an Associate Teaching Professor of Computer Science at UC San Diego with 16 years of experience bridging research, teaching, and software engineering. He is a co-designer and steward of the Pyret programming language and its web environment, bringing practical language design experience to computer science education and web security research. His work spans course development and tooling—much of his GitHub activity supports instructional repositories and testing automation—and includes backend web server work in Java and program-analysis implementations. Joe holds a PhD from Brown and has industry internship experience at Google and Fujitsu, reflecting a blend of rigorous research training and production-focused engineering. Known for improving developer experience and test infrastructure, he combines classroom impact with open-source stewardship of educational programming tools.
16 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Brown UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (13)
webserver10
javas10
http10
junit10
java10
test-automation10
testing10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
markdown-it4
markdown4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ucsd-cse15l-w22/markdown-parse
Jan 2022 - Mar 2022
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:50 commits, 39 pushes, 7 branches in 1 month
Contributions summary:Joe primarily contributed to testing efforts within the repository, evident from their focus on test file updates and additions. Their commits demonstrate the creation and modification of test cases. The user's work involves writing assertions and verifying the expected outputs.
ucsd-cse15l-f22/wavelet
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 10 pushes in 8 days
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on building a simple web server in Java. Their contributions included refactoring the server's structure, improving error handling, and changing how the server handled requests by switching to the URI datatype. They also removed HTML markup and added logic to handle different request paths.
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