Cooper Ross
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CS student at the University of Waterloo. I've been programming for
nearly a decade, building compilers, chess engines,
and tools that make other programmers faster.
Representing Canada at WorldSkills 2025 in Shanghai for Web Technologies.
about
I'm Cooper - a builder who's been writing code since before high school. My happy place is low-level systems and the kind of problems where you get to invent your own rules: I've written a native compiler with LLVM IR generation, a lisp in under 300 lines, and more chess engines than is probably reasonable.
Outside the editor I'm into AI safety research (big thanks to Robert Miles), math puzzles (shout-out Daniel Litt), and playing chess, soccer, and hockey. I care about making software that's fast, free, and genuinely useful.