Strager Strager
Chief Technology Officer at Traduality
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Summary
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RockstarStrager Strager is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO with 16 years of hands-on engineering experience spanning compilers, performance engineering, and developer tooling. He has shipped large-scale migrations and build-system optimizations at Facebook and led cross-platform compiler work earlier in his career, then translated that expertise into founding Traduality to improve multilingual customer experiences. A prolific open-source contributor, he’s made performance and correctness improvements to high-profile projects such as simdjson and practical tooling like quick-lint-js and hindent. Strager blends low-level systems skill (C/C++, assembly, Haskell) with practical devops and teaching chops—he’s taught programming to thousands online and mentored engineers and interns in production environments. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, he focuses on making complex systems fast, reliable, and accessible to non-English speakers.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (38)
algorithm10
markdown10
json10
code-optimization10
algorithms10
json-parser10
javascript10
c-language10
testing10
jsonp10
refactor10
markdown-it10
parsing10
performance-optimization10
optimisation10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
quick-lint/quick-lint-js
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 releases, 949 reviews, 4514 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Strager primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the code structure, as demonstrated by their commits focused on simplifying and streamlining the code through various refactoring operations. Their work included inlining helper functions and utilizing testing frameworks to simplify and refine tests. The user also made changes relating to improving the reliability and stability of the system.
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simdjson/simdjson
May 2021 - Jul 2022
Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second : used by Facebook/Meta Velox, the Node.js runtime, ClickHouse, WatermelonDB, Apache Doris, Milvus, StarRocks
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Strager primarily contributed to bug fixes and optimizations within the `simdjson` repository, focusing on improving the parsing of JSON data. They fixed a potential uninitialized memory issue when iterating over empty objects and reduced include bloat, improving build times. Furthermore, the user addressed documentation typos and refined code comments to improve clarity and readability, and improved build times for debug builds.
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