Matt Davis
Software Engineer at Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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RockstarMatt Davis is a software engineer and Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University with four years of hands-on development experience and a focus on full-stack engineering. Based in Pittsburgh, he contributes to notable open-source projects like Penrose, where he has improved rendering, trigonometric calculations, and styling—demonstrating attention to numerical correctness and visual fidelity. He pairs academic rigor with practical bug-fixing and example-driven improvements, making complex diagramming tools more reliable and user-friendly. Matt's background suggests a strong equilibrium between research-oriented thinking and pragmatic implementation, with a knack for improving cross-cutting functionality across codebases.
4 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
diagram10
javascript10
typescripts10
svg10
render10
typescript-types10
rendering10
visualizations9
visualization9
mathematics8
math8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
penrose/penrose
Oct 2021 - Jun 2022
Create beautiful diagrams just by typing notation in plain text.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 31 commits, 60 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Matt primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Penrose diagramming system. They addressed issues related to incorrect calculations in trigonometric functions, styling of elements (e.g., fill and stroke), and issues within the rendering process. Moreover, the user updated existing example files. Their work involved code changes across multiple files, including core rendering, utilities, and style examples.
diagramssvgeulermathematicsjavascript
nanofuzz/nanofuzz
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
NaNofuzz is a fast and easy-to-use automatic test suite generator for TypeScript that runs inside VS Code
Contributions:17 releases, 31 reviews, 33 commits in 5 months
testingvscodevscode-extensionrunsvs-code
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