Carson
Cummins
What's up! I'm
Carson Cummins.
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Stuff I've made
AURA is the easiest way to find research opportunities at universities across the country.
Application Spark
A grant focused tool for managing high volume application processes.
jpg stack rewrite
A paper I wrote for a visual computing class in college on reducing the size of jpg images using an autoencoding neural network integrated into my own rewrite of the jpeg compression stack
containerfactory.xyz
A nocode dockerfile generation tool that simplifies getting started with docker.
College application
My undergrad's application process allowed for the submission of something unique to show off, so I wrote this website that uses a genetic algorithm to decide on the school over a few simulated generations.
Hilbert curves
This goes over some of my thought process while making a Java library for generating Hilbert Curves, a method for neatly filling 2d space with a 1d object.
Jobs I've had
Software Developer
Working on data platform engineering team for Quip / Slack Canvas.
Software Developer
Worked across the full stack for LLM startup Quizard.ai
Data platform software engineering intern
Worked on the data platform team, focusing on pipeline heatlh and EKM features.
Security software engineering intern
Worked on IAM team, specifically focused on role request automation.
Software engineering intern
Worked on device testing team, focused on containerizing the testing pipeline.
readme
👋 I'm Carson, a seattle based software engineer who works on the data platform @ Slack. I'm really interested in solving hard, high impact problems that improve people's lives. Throughout college, I built AURA, which has helped connect hundreds of different students with research, and is still helping out students today. Right now, I'm working on related , a DSL for API creation built to be written by LLMs.
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