I am currently attending the Recurse Center with an eye towards moving to industry software and data roles. I am working on a client for the Mercurial distributed version control system in the Rust programming language. I am doing this to learn advanced Rust concepts, how to scale Rust projects bigger than a single-line script, and also hopefully to write code that will be useful for the Mercurial project’s oxidation plans.
Before moving to Brooklyn for the summer I was a research scientist at the University of Illinois’ National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the Data Exploration Lab .
I have extensive experience in open source software as a former maintainer of The yt Project, a Python toolkit for working with 3D simulation data. I am a member of the yt steering committee and helped bring yt under the umbrella of NumFOCUS .