Slava Pestov

Current

• Lead developer at Factor programming language

Past

• Teaching assistant at University of Ottawa
• Lead developer at jEdit programmer's text editor

Education

• University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa
• Victoria University of Wellington

Recommended

1 person has recommended Slava

Connections

60 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Slava Pestov’s Summary

I've been programming since 1995 or so. Starting off with HyperCard taught me to value interactive development and high-level languages. I switched to Java before the applet craze even started, running Java 1.0 on my 68k Mac. It was slow but I saw that object-oriented programming, garbage collection and complete standard libraries were a good thing. Wrote jEdit and oversaw a community of hundreds of developers and thousands of users before finishing high school. Did some Java and Objective-C contracting while at university. Started looking at other languages, particularly Common Lisp, after I realized that Java fell short in terms of productivity. Currently working with the Factor programming language.

Slava Pestov’s Specialties:

Compilers, garbage collection, language design, low-level I/O code.

Slava Pestov’s Experience

• Lead developer

  Factor programming language

  (Non-Profit; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  September 2003 — Present (5 years 11 months)

  Open source development.

• Teaching assistant

  University of Ottawa

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 2006 — December 2007 (2 years)

  Teaching and grading first and second year math courses.

• Lead developer

  jEdit programmer's text editor

  (Non-Profit; Myself Only; Computer Software industry)

  June 1998 — January 2006 (7 years 8 months)

  Open source software development.

Slava Pestov’s Education

• University of Ottawa / Université d'Ottawa

  MS , Mathematics , 2002 — 2007

• Victoria University of Wellington

Additional Information

Slava Pestov’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Slava Pestov’s Interests:

Compilers, language design, developer tools, math (Lie algebras, algebraic topology, symbolic algebra).

Slava Pestov’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
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