Welcome!

I develop effective solutions for complex challenges by troubleshooting and resolving issues with precision

- which is a fancy way of saying I make stuff work and fix stuff that doesn't work :)

About me

I'm Constantin Mussaeus, a third year bachelors student studying Computer Science at ETH Zürich. Recently, I was participating in an exchange program with the University of Washington in Seattle.

In my freetime I love to tackle programming challenges like those on codeforces.com. One challenge I enjoy every single time is Advent of Code. It is an algorithmic contest held in December where I compete against hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world. Last year I even managed to get into the top 100 global leaderboard for one of the days!

Since spring 2023 I also work on the startup easy-case.de together with some friends. In august 2023 we officially founded our company so technically I am one of the managing directors of EasyCase :)

Furthermore, I am a big fan of Hackathons. Even though I have only been to three so far I plan on going to more in the future. They are always a great way to learn a new language or framework and to improve your coding and team working skills.

Another hobby I recently discovered are ergonomic mechanical keyboards. I like them and therefore, I even build my own split keyboard with only 34 keys. Learning a new keyboard layout and trying to get faster at typing has become a regular activity of mine by now.

Projects

NEATeRS

This projects is a library for training a genetic neural net through reinforcement learning in Rust.

Rust

Machine Learning

EaFIS

EaFIS is an easy to use and fast instruction set design with a corresponding virtual machine, all written in Rust.

Rust

Assembly

low-level

cp-rs

This is a library for competitive programming in Rust. It handles the IO functionality and also has some geometry helper functions.

Rust

Competitive Programming

Tools

As most computer scientists I have some favorite frameworks and languages I like working with. Here I've listed the ones I feel comfortable working with.

Languages:

My favorite language by far is Rust. I seem to bring it up so much that my friends are often annoyed and tell me: "We know that you love Rust, just shut up". But besides the friendly banter I think that this language will be extremly important in the future, especially because of its ecosystem, peformance and safety.

Because Rust is one of the worst languages for quickly getting something done, I've recently started exploring Go. It just works which is awesome!

Some other languages I consider myself capable of working with are Typescript / Javascript, Python, C, C++ and Haskell.

Frameworks:

My most favorite web framework (which I also used to build this page) is SvelteKit. It makes building websites so much more enjoyable! You can use abstraction with the components, have a nice way of combining Typescript and HTML and it is still blazingly fast.

The framework I used before Svelte was Vue, its also a great tool for creating homepages and more but I quickly jumped to SvelteKit as I often had hydration issues with NuxtJS.

Other tools:

Because I am not a big fan of CSS I always use TailwindCSS and DaisyUI to style by websites. They work great and make life much easier!

As an editor I mostly use Helix nowadays but beforehand I used NVim and Vim a lot. Of course VSCode is always a viable option and my first choice if I need to use a weird language which is not supported on my other editors.