Understanding large and unfamiliar codebases
Mike Shah & Chris Croft-White
It's your first day on the job as a new employee or intern. You setup your workstation and then download a repository of over 1,000,000 lines of code. Even more intimidating, the code has been around for 20 years and has parts of it in legacy C++ and also using tentative C++ 26 features from various libraries. You feel overwhelmed! Don't fret however! In this talk, I provide tools for helping junior engineer and pros
Mike Shah
Mike Shah is currently a teaching faculty at Yale University with primary teaching interests in computer systems, computer graphics, and game engines. Mike's research interests are related to performance engineering (dynamic analysis), software visualization, and computer graphics. Along with teaching and research work, Mike juggles occasional consulting work as a 3D Senior Graphics Engineer in C++ and producing programming content at his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@MikeShah
Chris Croft-White
Chris Croft-White is a Pre-Sale Staff Solutions Architect. Armed with a Computer Science degree from the University of Cambridge, UK, he acquired experience as a Field Application Engineer, a Security Engineer, and a Sales Engineer at a range of technology firms. He is particularly adept at problem-solving and resolving customer issues by getting to the root cause of pesky bugs quickly.