Russell Emerine
Computational Geometry Software Engineer
Marietta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolRussell Emerine is a computational geometry software engineer with six years of experience applying algorithmic problem solving, compiler design, game development, and NLP to practical systems. He holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and has combined academic research—modeling Nāhuatl grammar with finite-state transducers—with production engineering on backend systems like the NOVID contact-tracing app. Currently at Layup Parts, he focuses on geometry-driven software while also running a long-standing independent practice training students for math, programming, and linguistics competitions. Russell’s background spans deep theoretical foundations (complexity theory, PL theory, AI principles) and hands-on delivery, making him comfortable moving from formal models to deployable services. A detail that sets him apart is his experience manually curating linguistic corpora to bootstrap ML models, reflecting patience for meticulous data work as well as algorithmic insight.
6 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (24)
mathematical9
mathematics9
formal-methods9
theorem-proving9
pynini8
javascript8
math7
haskell6
recursion6
minimum6
python3
openfst2
overleaf2
pdf2
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
15466-magitech/magitech
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023
Base code for Game 6: http://graphics.cs.cmu.edu/courses/15-466-f23/game6.html
Contributions:31 PRs, 41 pushes, 15 branches in 1 month
RussellEmerine/aoc-2023
Dec 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:37 pushes in 25 days
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