Paul Chiusano
Founder at Unison Computing
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Chiusano is a founder and systems-oriented software engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable, purely functional systems and programming languages. As co-creator of the Unison distributed-systems programming language and founder of Unison Computing, he blends language design, compiler/parser work, and developer tooling to make software creation more delightful. His background includes leading technical teams at S&P Capital IQ and founding a Scala/FP consultancy, with deep contributions to prominent open-source projects like Scalaz and FS2 that improved core abstractions and performance of streaming and typeclass libraries. Based in New Orleans, he brings a research-minded approach rooted in earlier work on swarm-inspired distributed algorithms, and he routinely tackles low-level invariants—error handling, type inference, and efficient core data structures—that most engineers avoid.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Science, BSE Computer Science at University of MichiganMA Computer Science, MA Computer Science at Brandeis University
Stackoverflow
775reputation
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Github Skills (24)
typeclass10
scala10
monads10
parsing10
traverse10
stream-processing10
functional-programming10
text-parsing10
unison10
refactor9
exception-handling9
applicative9
error-handling9
apply9
refactoring9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
unisonweb/unison
Sep 2013 - Jan 2023
A friendly programming language from the future
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Core Contributor
Back-end Developer & Core ContributorContributions:3 releases, 850 reviews, 3923 commits in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Paul made several contributions to the Unison codebase, including improvements to the parser and pretty-printing of documentation, as well as adjustments to the codebase's internals, such as how constructors were handled. Furthermore, the user worked on enhancing the codebase's error handling and integration with external tools, such as fixing issues related to the rendering of bytes literals and type checking. Their work also included improvements to the underlying text representation and core structure of the codebase, suggesting a focus on core backend functionality.
haskellcompilerdistributed-systemsunisonunison-language
fpinscala/fpinscala
Feb 2012 - Mar 2015
Code, exercises, answers, and hints to go along with the book "Functional Programming in Scala"
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:159 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on refactoring and extending the parsing logic within the project. Their contributions involved modifying the `Master.scala` file to include blank line handling, qualified exercise names, and trim whitespace. The user also made changes to the error handling, laziness, and state implementations in Scala, indicating a focus on the core functionality of the functional programming concepts. Furthermore, the user fixed several issues with parser implementations.
ziofunctional-programmingcode-exercisesscalajshints
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