Summary
Rebecca Reid is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience specializing in full-stack and compiler development, particularly C++ and Java, and currently advancing static analysis frontends at Synopsys. She has designed and emulated multiple C/C++/Objective-C/CUDA compiler frontends to support Coverity, giving her deep domain expertise in toolchains and compiler compatibility. Rebecca balances hands-on engineering with community leadership as President of the Calgary UNIX Users' Group, reflecting a commitment to collaborative knowledge sharing. Her background includes building production features used by 10,000+ users during a financial-services internship and practical systems work across telecom and engineering records, demonstrating versatility across domains. Based in Calgary with a BS in Computer Software Engineering from the University of Calgary, she brings rigorous engineering practices and a knack for translating complex language semantics into reliable analysis tooling. An interesting detail: alongside professional roles she still teaches and mentors in the community, from swim instruction to coding mentorship, showing an ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Software Engineering at University of Calgary
English, French