Tech lead at IBM Quantum | Developer productivity & open source | Python, TypeScript, & Rust
Tech lead for IBM Quantum's documentation infrastructure, creating one cohesive experience by unifying 12 APIs, 5 internal teams, and 6 external companies.
Six-year background in developer productivity and focus on creating quality software.
Top maintainer of open source Pants build system. https://www.pantsbuild.org
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Added Pants's flagship feature: dependency inference, which reduces boilerplate by ~90% for using the tool and improves cache invalidation by ~30%.
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Implemented Pants's Target API after ~2 years of unresolved design talks, with a focus on a declarative, composable interface that leverages Python idioms.
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Stabilized remote cache client using gRPC and Remote Execution API, including using Grafana for monitoring.
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Migrated Pants's Python <-> Rust FFI to PyO3.
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Spoke at PyCon US 2021 about Python + Rust native extensions, Podcast.__init__ about Pants and developer productivity, Humans Of DevOps about "the curse of knowledge", Rustacean Station about Python + Rust, and InfoQ about inclusive open source communities.
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Wrote the majority of docs for Pants: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs.
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Jumpstarted internship program, including mentoring intern for 5 months with a focus on cultivating software engineering best practices.
Rewrote Pants open source project to use Python 3, resulting in increased developer productivity and 10-20% performance increase for most daily tasks run by Twitter engineers.
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Implemented remote build execution for Pants tests, resulting in 3x speedup of Pants' tests pipeline.
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Changed PEX open source project to make produced artifacts bit-for-bit reproducible.
