Paul Stansifer
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Stansifer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Boston with 18 years of experience building high-performance, language-level systems and tools. Currently at Google, he brings deep expertise in metaprogramming—having designed and implemented Rust’s macro system during research internships at Mozilla—and a strong background in performance-sensitive C++ systems from his time at Endeca. He holds a BA in Computer Science and Philosophy from Williams and pursued doctoral studies in Computer Science at Northeastern, reflecting a blend of rigorous theory and practical engineering. Known for thinking several layers up (programmer, metaprogrammer, occasional metametaprogrammer), he excels at shaping language features and developer-facing infrastructure that enable safer, more expressive code. Colleagues value him for tackling subtle correctness and tooling challenges that others often overlook.
18 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Philosophy at Williams College
Github Skills (55)
rust-lang10
garbage-collection10
dsl10
macros10
standard-library10
markup-language10
lexical-analysis10
crate10
compiler10
abstract10
rust10
allocator10
rfc10
rust-language10
programming-language9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
paulstansifer/end-of-september
May 2008 - May 2009
Contributions:100 commits in 1 year
the-good-news-that-mark-said/the-good-news-that-mark-said.github.io
Nov 2018 - May 2023
Contributions:30 pushes in 4 years 6 months
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