About Me

Highly experienced software developer, technical manager, and leader. Recently VP Product Engineering at Enthought, leading a startup-style team to build out our next-gen analysis platform. Currently working on my own projects, but open to the right opportunity.

I've had an interesting journey in the software industry. Originally trained as a physicist at UCLA, I began using Python just when the science community began discovering the power of modern software techniques to accelerate research. Over the next few years, I became increasingly involved in the software ecosystem, publishing a widely popular open-source project for managing numerical data. That led to an O'Reilly book on scientific data management, and later I founded a short-lived startup company, Heliosphere Research LLC.

In my most recent role as VP Product Engineering at Enthought, I managed a startup-style team building Enthought’s platform for scientific application development. That platform is now used by hundreds of Enthought and customer developers, thousands of end users, and supports millions of dollars worth of business across everything from biotech to materials science.

Recent Work

Enthought Edge

As Enthought Platform Director and later VP Product Engineering, I led the implementation of Edge, our cloud-native platform for scientists.

Edge was created to put scientists and engineers back in the driver's seat when it comes to R&D. Despite advancements in artificial intelligence and cloud computing, R&D scientists still have trouble unlocking the full potential of their institutional knowledge. Edge provides the tools needed to tackle hard science problems while still enabling proper corporate governance and cost control.

Edge is a Kubernetes-native service built using a variety of tools, everything from Python to Terraform and specialized React front-end components. It interfaces with Amazon Web Services, to allow science apps to run on dynamically provisioned EC2 machines.

For more information on Enthought Edge, check out our product page or the official documentation.

Education and Academics

I got my doctorate in Physics at UCLA, in 2010. My dissertation was on the physics of expanding laser-produced plasmas, conducted at the Basic Plasma Science Facility (a major DOE-funded center for basic plasma science).

After graduating, I was a postdoctoral researcher and later research scientist at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP). As part of that work I took a major role in constructing the 3MV hypervelocity dust accelerator at the IMPACT facility.

Other Projects

HDF5 for Python

 O'Reilly book
Unlocking Scientific Data 		Former startup product Advanced Plotting Toolkit