Luke Wagner
Teaching Assistant For Foundations Of Computer Security
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolLuke Wagner is a Master's student at MIT specializing in computer systems and security, with a Bachelor's in CS from MIT and 11 years of hands-on experience across research and industry. He balances academic roles—currently a TA for Foundations of Computer Security and a graduate researcher at the MIT Sports Lab—with practical engineering: summer software engineering stints at Dell where he helped build virtual infrastructure for ObjectScale and modernized testing for PowerStore. His work blends systems, security, and data science, including machine-learning projects for sports analytics and revenue modeling for the San Antonio Spurs. An active contributor to the WebAssembly ecosystem, he implemented testing assertions and helped define the Component Model's canonical ABI, demonstrating attention to correctness and low-level data handling. Based in Austin, he pairs competitive drive as a varsity basketball captain with a knack for pragmatic tooling—his freelance web-scraping and API projects show a pattern of shipping useful, data-driven utilities.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (17)
parser10
lexer10
python10
interpreter10
data-structure10
parsing10
parse10
data-structures10
webassembly10
lex10
testing9
algorithms9
serialization9
data-serialization9
deserialization9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
WebAssembly/component-model
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Repository for design and specification of the Component Model
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:437 reviews, 203 commits, 258 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the implementation of the Component Model's canonical ABI, focusing on defining the data structures and the serialization/deserialization logic within the `definitions.py` file. Their work involved adding alignment checks, implementing NaN canonicalization for floating-point types, and refactoring string handling. The user also addressed several issues related to resource management and ensured proper handling of multi-return values.
specificationreactmodel-componentdesign-system
WebAssembly/spec
Aug 2015 - Oct 2017
WebAssembly specification, reference interpreter, and test suite.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:87 commits, 59 PRs, 106 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Luke primarily contributed to the `webassembly/spec` repository by implementing features related to the WebAssembly specification, specifically around the testing of WebAssembly modules. Their work involved adding new commands like `asserteq` to the interpreter's script, modifying the parser and lexer to support the new commands, and updating the evaluation logic to handle the new assertions. They also addressed feedback and fixed mutability bugs.
rustspecificationwebassemblyinterpretersuite
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