Sasha Rush
Research Scientist at Cursor
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSasha Rush is a research scientist and academic leader with a Ph.D. from MIT and over a decade of experience bridging deep learning research and production systems for natural language understanding. He has held faculty positions at Harvard and Cornell Tech and researched at Hugging Face and Facebook FAIR, focusing on efficient inference and learning algorithms for tasks like parsing, coreference, and machine translation. Equally comfortable in code and theory, he contributes full-stack engineering work—recently migrating authentication and routing flows for the popular cal.com scheduling platform—reflecting his emphasis on simplicity and ergonomics. Based in New York, he specializes in systems that scale to web-scale corpora and combines machine learning, combinatorial optimization, and practical engineering to turn complex NLP models into usable tools.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Harvard University
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Github Skills (14)
typescript10
user-authentication10
authentication10
nextjs10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
next-auth10
react10
typescript-types10
backend9
back-end-development9
middleware9
tailwind8
tailwindcss8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
calcom/cal.com
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Sasha was involved in migrating pages to the app directory, specifically focusing on authentication-related flows like verify email, logout, signin, and SSO. They refactored existing pages and implemented new routes under the `/future` directory structure. Their work included updating middleware and server-side props, indicating involvement in both frontend and backend aspects of the application. This migration touched upon core functionalities of the application and its routing mechanism.
tailwindcssturborepotrpcprismascheduling
codemod-com/codemod
Feb 2024 - Sep 2024
The end-to-end platform for creating, sharing, and running codemods with engines like jscodeshift, ast-grep, ts-morph, and more. Automate code migrations, cleanups, and refactors for you, your team, and the community. AI-powered and CLI-first.
Contributions:205 reviews, 528 PRs, 870 pushes in 7 months
ast-grepcodemodjscodeshiftmigrationrefactoring
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