Emma Turetsky
Research Software Engineer at Morgridge Institute for Research
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolEmma Turetsky is a Research Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and research-driven tooling, currently developing Golang-based open data hosting and transfer platforms at the Morgridge Institute for Research. She has a strong research software background from UW–Madison, where she contributed to program analysis tools and published work involving Newton’s method and novel automata/BDD structures. At GrammaTech she translated cutting-edge static analysis research into production-ready systems, implementing machine learning and RNN-based solutions in Python for program understanding and decompilation tasks. Comfortable across languages and stages of development, she’s shipped REST APIs, custom servers, and batch testing infrastructures for government research projects. Based in Madison, WI, Emma blends academic rigor with practical engineering—an unusual mix that lets her move theoretical algorithms into reliable, auditable software.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science at Carleton College
Github Skills (22)
fsspec10
weighted9
aix9
scientific-computing9
tarball9
js8
pelican8
conda8
storage8
javascript7
automaton7
html7
distributed-file-system6
http-server6
conda-forge6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PelicanPlatform/pelicanfs
Feb 2024 - Jun 2026
An fsspec implementation that uses the pelican client
Contributions:38 releases, 24 reviews, 101 PRs in 2 years 5 months
fsspecosdfpelican
turetske/etpelican
Sep 2023 - Jul 2026
The Pelican command line tool
Contributions:2 PRs, 405 pushes, 155 branches in 2 years 10 months
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