Kasra Ferdowsi
Teaching Assistant at UC San Diego
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolKasra Ferdowsi is a Computer Science PhD candidate and teaching assistant at UC San Diego with a decade of software engineering experience bridging programming languages research and practical tooling. His work focuses on making programming more joyful by combining Program Synthesis, HCI, and the usability of complex static semantics—particularly Rust’s ownership model—while regularly writing Rust in research and industry settings. He has research internships at Microsoft and a strong teaching record across core PL courses, pairing rigorous academic credentials (PhD work at UCSD, BS from Berkeley) with hands-on engineering experience from firms like Tom Sawyer and Cubist. Notably, he studies how AI and PL techniques can accelerate developer productivity, bringing an unusual blend of formal rigor, usability sensitivity, and production-grade coding to language tooling.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 4.00, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 4.00 at UC Berkeley College of EngineeringComputer Science, 4.00, Computer Science, 4.00 at Diablo Valley College
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Github Skills (40)
command-line-tool10
cli10
bootstrap9
javascript9
command-line-interface9
binaries9
css9
sass9
homebrew9
macos9
html9
administration9
command-line8
responsive8
rust7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UCSD-PL/vscode
Jun 2020 - Jan 2024
Visual Studio Code
Contributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 3 PRs in 3 years 8 months
visual-studio-codevscodevscode-extensiontypescriptvisual-studio
KasraF/SnippySynthesizer
Feb 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 release, 246 commits, 103 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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