Elliott Hauser
Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolElliott Hauser is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin and a founder-CEO with 13 years of experience at the intersection of information, computation, and agency. His work blends academic research on how information shapes human and nonhuman actors with hands-on software engineering — contributing to widely used open-source projects like the py4e textbook site and the Skulpt JavaScript Python implementation. He has deep experience building and testing back-end and full-stack systems, from decoding byte streams and build scripts to implementing core runtime functions and unit tests. As CEO of Trinket he has translated research insights into product and platform design, while mentoring students and developers. His background spans academia, consulting, and startups, supported by a PhD and MSIS from UNC Chapel Hill and a BA from Duke. He combines rigorous scholarly inquiry with practical engineering chops, often focusing on making educational and computational tools more robust and accessible.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
B.A., B.A. at Duke UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Norfolk AcademyMSIS, MSIS at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
beautifulsoup10
python10
skulpt10
unit-testing9
randomization9
highlighter8
syntax-highlighter8
test-automation8
syntax-highlighting8
webscraping7
markdown7
markdown-it7
od6
courses-resource5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
skulpt/skulpt
May 2015 - Oct 2018
Skulpt is a Javascript implementation of the Python programming language
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 95 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Elliott implemented the `random.uniform` function in JavaScript, adding core functionality to the Skulpt Python environment. Further commits involved refining the implementation by casting the return value to a Skulpt float. The user also contributed by creating and modifying unit tests for the `random` module, enhancing the reliability and testing coverage of the library. This work contributed to expanding the functionality and improving the testing of the Skulpt project.
javascriptprogramming-languagepythonskulpt
csev/py4e
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Web site for www.py4e.com and source to the Python 3.0 textbook
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 16 PRs, 5 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Elliott appears to be contributing to the Python 3.0 textbook repository by fixing bugs, adding functionality, and improving code quality. Their commits involve tasks like decoding bytes, fixing spider scripts, adding code highlighting, and modifying build scripts. A significant portion of the work involves adapting existing code and integrating external libraries such as Beautiful Soup.
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