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I'm a software engineer who works on developer tools. These days I build marimo, an open-source reactive notebook for Python with over 21k stars and more than 2 million downloads a month.
I have a strong software engineering background, and I focus on the things that make a tool dependable: thoughtful API design, performance, and the testing and tooling that keep a large open-source codebase healthy. I've developed and maintained open-source systems and libraries for years, including trrackjs and trrackvis, and I care a lot about the developer and analyst experience of the tools I work on.
The thread across my work is making interactive and computational work reproducible and reusable. I came at it first through research, using interaction provenance so analyses could be replayed, shared, and trusted, and now I build the tools that bake that in from the start.
I completed my PhD at the Kahlert School of Computing and the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah, supervised by Dr. Alexander Lex at the Visualization Design Lab. My research used interaction provenance to improve the reproducibility and reusability of interactive visual analysis.