Pat Laster
Full Stack Developer at Trend Communications, Inc.
Scott, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPat Laster is a Full Stack Developer with 11 years in technology and four years of professional Java experience, currently building web solutions at Trend Communications. He blends server- and client-side development with Agile practices and Git-based workflows, and brings hands-on game-engine expertise from three years working with Unreal Engine 4 and Blueprint visual scripting. An open-source contributor, Pat has made pragmatic backend fixes to the popular uutils/coreutils Rust project—improving utilities like seq and adding b2sum/b3sum support—demonstrating attention to portability and correctness. A University of Louisiana at Lafayette CS graduate based in Scott, LA, he pairs practical systems-level thinking with a knack for making complex behaviors more reliable and readable.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.1, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.1 at University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Github Skills (5)
command-line-tool10
rust10
gnu-coreutils10
coreutils9
cross-platform9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
uutils/coreutils
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 37 commits, 8 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Pat contributed to the `coreutils` project by addressing specific code issues and enhancing functionality. They eliminated special handling of negative zero within the `seq` utility, improving the program's behavior. The user added entries for `b2sum` and `b3sum` utilities and implemented critical fixes, adding more readable unix write permissions. These changes collectively enhance the utility and the stability of the project.
command-line-toolrustlinuxgnucoreutils
palaster/Get-A-Job
Nov 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 87 pushes, 9 branches in 6 years 4 months
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