Tempe, Arizona, United States
• Top maintainer of open source Pants build system. https://www.pantsbuild.org
• Added Pants's flagship feature: dependency inference, which reduces boilerplate by ~90% for using the tool and improves cache invalidation by ~30%.
• Implemented Pants's Target API after ~2 years of unresolved design talks, with a focus on a declarative, composable interface that leverages Python idioms.
• Stabilized remote cache client using gRPC and Remote Execution API, including using Grafana for monitoring.
• Migrated Pants's Python <-> Rust FFI to PyO3.
• 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.
• Wrote the majority of docs for Pants: https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs.
• Jumpstarted internship program, including mentoring intern for 5 months with a focus on cultivating software engineering best practices.
