cryos / qmicroscope

You probably don't want to use this yet...

I recently joined Voltron Data. I am an open source software developer. I was a group leader for the Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization group at NSLS-II which is part of Brookhaven National Laboratory and before that I was a Technical Lead at Kitware working on a number of open source scientific software projects including Tomviz, Avogadro, Open Chemistry, VTK, ParaView, CMake and others.

I am a physicist by training, completing a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in physics focusing on nanomaterial engineering. I used lots of materials characterization techniques including transmission electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, X-ray and neutron techniques (mainly diffraction and reflectometry) as an experimentalist before making the leap to software. I did a postdoc in chemistry, spent over a decade developing primarily C++ applications before moving to the lab.

I love science and software, living in the space the two occupy. I blog, have largely abandoned social media, and love living close to the beach. I once gave a TEDx talk 'Open Up or Perish' shortly after my daughter was born that sums up my hopes for how we move science forward. Started out as a Google Summer of Code student, and am now mentor/org admin.

I am passionate about writing portable, highly performant software that can run on Linux, macOS, Windows, and on the web. I have deep experience in C++, Qt, CMake and am pretty familiar with Python, TypeScript, React and related technologies. I was once a Gentoo developer, run Arch as my preferred desktop/laptop and love keeping up with new developments in the technology world.

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