This is a “now page” which itemizes professional, personal work and other priorities that I’m concentrating on right now.

What I’m currently Working On

• Leveraging Scala programming language to build robust and maintainable code
• Ammonite for scripting and REPL-ish driven development in Scala
• Dashboard tooling using Panel
• Deeper dive into Advanced design patterns in Akka
• Exploring different workflow technologies (e.g., apache-airflow, prefect) for scientific computing and data analysis
• R for data exploration and visualization utilizing the most excellent dplyr and ggplot2
• Exploring Python PEPs >= 3.8 to better understand the direction and future iterations of the Python Programming Language

I studied Chemistry and Physics as an undergraduate and got my Ph.D. in Material Science specializing in the Electronic Structure of Lithium Transition Metal Oxides for lithium-ion batteries. Following graduation, I did a post-doc at Lawrenece Berkeley National Lab and was a core member of the original Materials Project team from 2009-2012. In April of 2012, I joined Pacific Biosciences to work in the Secondary Analysis Team in the R&D division. In late October of 2018, I decided to take some time off to travel and work on a few side projects.

A few languages, libs and tools I Enjoy: Scala, Akka, Python, R, Postgres, Javascript/Typescript, React.

Series

• Functional Programming Techniques (FPT) in Python

OSS Projects

A few open source projects that I have contributed to. Several Most of these libs/tools are currently used in production code.

Test Post

A simple test post of adding code and gist snippets.

Hexo CheatSheet

Example of directly embedding code

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case class Person(name: String, age: Int)

object Example {
  def myFunc(n: Int) = n * n
}

Add a gist

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def f(x):
   return x * x
   
def g(x):
    return 2 * x

# example usage
h = compose(f, g)

iPython Notebook Snippet from a Gist