Pierce Darragh
Graduate Teaching Assistant
College Park, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolPierce Darragh is a programming languages researcher and graduate teaching assistant with 12 years of engineering and research experience, currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Maryland. He focuses on types, parsing, syntax design, and developer-facing tooling to make code easier to read, write, and debug, with practical work including an x86 interpreter and course improvements for compilers and PL theory. His background spans academic research groups at Utah and Maryland, industry security tooling at Apple, and building language-focused tools like Xsmith and SweetPea. Pierce combines hands-on system and language implementation experience with teaching—he has designed and led a new undergraduate PL theory course—bringing both rigorous research and a knack for turning complex language concepts into usable educational and developer tools.
12 years of coding experience
The University of UtahDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of MarylandInternational Baccalaureate Diploma and Utah Advanced Honors Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma and Utah Advanced Honors Diploma at Hillcrest High School
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
2,112reputation
252kreached
37answers
7questions
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Github Skills (73)
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location10
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pyobjc10
display-manager10
orientation10
simplify9
variadic9
python9
sudoers9
swiftui9
while-loop9
s-expressions9
currying9
ocaml9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pdarragh/parsing-with-zippers-paper-artifact
May 2020 - Jul 2020
The artifact associated with "Parsing with Zippers (Functional Pearl)" (Darragh and Adams) to appear in ICFP 2020.
Contributions:3 releases, 85 commits, 25 pushes in 1 month
pdarragh/Spritening
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:57 PRs, 77 pushes, 28 branches in 1 month
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