Ray Toal
Professor at Undivided
Glendale, California, United States
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Top SchoolRay Toal is a veteran computer scientist and professor with over 39 years in academia and nearly three decades of industry software development and architecture experience. He teaches a wide span of CS topics—from introductory programming to compilers, distributed programming, and secure software development—while supervising numerous independent studies and master's theses. In industry he has designed and built backend platforms, APIs, analytics tools, and infrastructure using languages and systems including Python, Java, JavaScript/Node, SQL and NoSQL databases, and distributed processing stacks. His work bridges programming language theory and practical systems engineering, applying formal semantics and compiler insight to real-world API and data-processing architectures. Based in Glendale, CA, he continues to consult for startups and enterprises, combining hands-on implementation with mentoring and curriculum-driven rigor. An enduring thread across his career is translating deep theoretical knowledge into pragmatic, maintainable software and developer education.
20 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los AngelesMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University
English, Spanish, Russian
Stackoverflow
87,248reputation
11.3mreached
1,241answers
91questions
encoding
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package
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regex
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hadoop
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ruby
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recursion
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Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
parser10
python10
loops10
ruby10
concurrency10
javascript10
java-io10
peg10
grammars10
ohm10
byte10
hash10
stack-based10
erlang10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
rtoal/carlos-compiler
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:322 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
rtoal/diagrams
May 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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