Trevor Gross
Student Technician at University of Michigan Information and Technology Services
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTrevor Gross is an electrical engineer and seasoned backend developer with a decade of hands-on experience blending systems work, CI/CD, and compiler-level contributions. Based in Chicago and studying Electrical & Electronics Engineering at the University of Michigan, he supports university IT as a Student Technician while contributing to high-profile Rust projects like rust-lang/rust, libc, and Clippy. His open-source work shows a focus on robustness and developer ergonomics—adding f16/f128 support, refining compiler diagnostics, and hardening build pipelines and CI. Trevor pairs low-level numeric and build-system expertise with practical operations skills from DevOps-style improvements, a combination that often surfaces in cross-cutting refactors rather than just feature work.
10 years of coding experience
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of MichiganInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at International Academy of Macomb
Github Skills (22)
cargo10
float3210
scripting10
compiler-development10
testing10
clippy10
cicd10
script10
build-automation10
sh10
floating-point10
linting10
rust10
shell10
refactoring8
Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/libc
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Raw bindings to platform APIs for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:454 reviews, 686 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Trevor primarily contributed to the build and CI/CD aspects of the `libc` project. They addressed build issues, such as disabling problematic targets for testing and ensuring semver files are sorted within the CI pipeline. Moreover, the user refactored and improved the build scripts, enhancing their uniformity and efficiency. They also focused on fixing build script related issues and simplifying RUSTC_WRAPPER checks.
rust
rust-lang/rust
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:898 reviews, 4 commits, 430 PRs in 17 days
Contributions summary:Trevor's contributions are focused on implementing features and making improvements to the Rust compiler. They added new library functions and constants related to `f16` and `f128` types, integrated tests for these types, and removed unused code paths and unnecessary conversions. Their work also included refactoring error messages and updating code to utilize features like `const` for better compile-time performance.
crategarbage-collectionrustreliablecompiler
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