Robby Findler
Professor at PLT
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolRobby Findler is a Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern with 30 years of experience bridging programming language research and practical tooling. A core developer and long-time contributor to the Racket ecosystem, he focuses on making language features more usable through clear documentation and extensible tools like Redex. His career spans academia and software practice—including faculty roles at University of Chicago and a programmer role at PLT—reflecting a blend of rigorous research and hands-on engineering. He holds a PhD from Rice and a BS from Carnegie Mellon, grounding his work in strong formal foundations. Beyond papers and teaching, he invests in developer-facing clarity, turning complex contract and language semantics into approachable examples and docs. Based in the Chicago area, he combines deep theoretical insight with a sustained commitment to open-source language design.
29 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Rice UniversityThe Maret SchoolBS, Math/Computer Science, BS, Math/Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (9)
scribble10
documentation10
racket9
redex9
scheme6
struct6
reflection6
eiffel6
design-by-contract6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
racket/racket
Sep 2000 - Oct 2022
The Racket repository
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:36 reviews, 5751 commits, 83 PRs in 22 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Robby's commits focus on documenting and extending the functionality of the Racket language, particularly within the context of the Redex tool. The contributions involve creating and revising documentation for various forms and operations within the contract system and illustrating these concepts with examples. The user appears to be focused on enhancing the clarity and usability of the documentation for new or changed features of the language.
code-golfschemepolyglotlanguage-designprogramming-languages
rfindler/esterel
Feb 2023 - Jan 2025
Esterel in Racket
Contributions:5 reviews, 3 PRs, 168 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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