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Meet the contributors

⭐️Reshama Shaikh

  • About:
    • Statistician, Data Scientist, MBA
    • Organizer of Women in Machine Learning & Data Science
  • Have I contributed to open source:
    • YES! Created a repository for Python fastai library beginner tools. It is here
  • My Skills to Share:
    • Have organized an open source sprint for the Python library scikit-learn: https://github.com/WiMLDS/scikit-sprint
    • Can create a Git tutorial since that skill is required for contributing to many open source projects
    • Markdown, Git
  • Contact:

⭐️Esther Kundin

  • About:
    • Senior Software Engineer
    • BA in Computer Science and Mathematics from NYU and MS in Computer Science from Columbia University
    • Co-Chair of Bloomberg Women in Tech group
  • Have I contributed to open source:
  • My Skills to Share:
    • C++, python, hadoop, hbase, spark
    • Git
    • Organizing diversity events
  • My Story: I have been a software engineer for many years, but shied away from contributing to Open Source. I didn't know where to start and was nervous about putting myself in a position where others would criticize my work. However, for a project at work, I needed to put in a patch to an Apache project. I found the work interesting, learned a lot in terms of the documentation and testing requirements, and found the community supportive and nice to work with! I have worked on some other small projects at Hackathons and look forward to working on more projects as part of Sprints and Hackathons.

⭐️James Horine

  • About:
    • Senior Data Scientist / M.S. Statistics
    • LGBTQIA Activist in STEM
  • Have I contributed to open source:
    • Not yet
  • My Skills to Share:
    • Organizes internal company documentation for beginning users of Git/Shell
    • Understanding and use cases for Unit testing from the data science perspective
      • Why it's important
      • Why it's a PITA for data scientists to learn
    • R, Python, Git, Shell for data science
  • My Story I have been a statistician and data scientist for several years in the corporate world. With zero exposure to the contribution process with Open Source tools; the very thought terrifies me. Moreover, the software engineering process itself is a new-to-me monster, filled with challenges in toolset, thinking, and understanding. The Open Source guide as created in collaboration with my colleagues through DISC marks my first effort in open source contributions.

⭐️Leah Guthrie

  • About:
    • Computational biologist, PhD candidate
    • Focused on quantitative approaches to understand the influence of the gut microbiome on drug metabolism
  • Have I contributed to open source:
  • My Skills to Share:
    • I create tutorials on using python and R for data analysis and visualization
    • I have a tutorial introducing network analysis https://github.com/ltcguthrie/Pygotham_2017
    • I develop STEM curriculum material geared towards high school students
  • My Story: I have been using open source (OS) tools for my thesis work for the past 4 years. Three years in, I made my first OS contribution. In the Spring of 2017, I participated in a Scikit-learn Sprint organized by the NYC WiMLDS meetup group. It was a friendly introduction to the process of choosing a project, identifying an issue and submitting a pull request.

⭐️Mayur Gilani

  • About:
    • Quantitative Finance, Data Science Enthusiast
  • Have I contributed to open source:
    • Short answer: No
    • Except for asking questions on Stack Overflow
    • And promote Open Source on any medium I get.
  • My Skills to Share:
    • Python, R, Git

⭐️Julia Meinwald

  • About:
    • Composer (musical theatre) by night, open source coordinator/fledgling community manager at Two Sigma by day!
  • Have I contributed to open source:
    • Short answer: no
    • I've hosted some open source related events (meetups and hackathons) and posted a few simple open source answers on Stack Overflow
  • My Skills to Share:
    • Writing (just in English, but could help on simple documentation, FAQs, blog posts, etc)
  • My Story: I studied music composition in undergrad, then earned an MFA in musical theatre writing (did you know you can even earn a terminal degree in musical theatre writing?) I started woking at Two Sigma in 2010, and worked there first as a receptionist, then on the Learning and Development team, and now in a role that was new to me and new to the company: I became Two Sigma's first Open Source Coordinator. I'm still learning all I can about the open source world -- everyone I've encountered has been really friendly about answering questions. I even tried to combine my two worlds, writing the music for a song in one of my new musicals using the open source music tool SonicPi. I'm so excited to consider myself part of this awesome open source community.

⭐️April Webster

  • About:
    • Software engineer, statistics consultant in a previous life, MSc Computer Science
  • Have I contributed to open source:
    • Not yet, but I'm excited to get started!
  • My Skills to Share:
    • Python, Javascript, Java

⭐️Anderson Frailey

  • About:
  • Have I contributed to open source:
  • My Skills to Share:
    • Python, markdown
  • My Story: After studying economics in undergrad, I began working at a think tank in Washington, DC on an open source tax model. This was my first step into both open source and software development/data science. I had no idea what I was doing initially (my first pull requests reflect this), but after some time I became more comfortable putting code out there for others to review and use. Since then I have been involved in Code for DC and gotten into the habit of posting most of the code I write on GitHUb. Getting involved in open source has improved my development skills dramtically as I have been able to see other's code and have my own reviewed and corrected.

⭐️Prince Wilson

  • About:
    • Software Enthusiast during the day, Corgi Fanatic all the time
    • Diversity & Inclusion with a focus in POC and LGBTQIA
  • Have I contributed to open source:
  • My Skills to Share:
    • Python, Ruby, Elixir, Accessibility
    • Focus on writing effective documentation for people to read, digest, and understand

⭐️Chaya Stern

  • About:
    • Computational chemist, PhD Candidate, Weill Cornell
    • My research is focused on improving computational models of molecules that are used in drug discovery.
  • Have I contributed to open source:
    • Yes! Most of the code generated for my thesis is open source.
  • My Skills to Share:
    • Python, markdown, Git

⭐️Tania Allard

  • About:
    • Research Software Engineering, PhD in Computational modelling, Open source, diversity, inclusion and data nerd
    • I am massively interested in promoting and facilitating reproducible and replicable science, analysis workflows, and helping to maximize the research impact by developing robust, sustainable, and open software. I am also passionate about data readiness, accessibility, and curation.
    • I love mentoring, teaching and build supportive and welcoming communities ✨
  • Have I contributed to open source? Yes! During my PhD I became massively aware of the importance of open source projects as well as the lack (at that time) of robust open software for the area I was working on.

The very vast majority of my work is completely open source these days (except for some sensitive research... you know how it works). I also am the founder/maintainer of Coding Foundation an open source project aimed to increase the representation of women and members of the LGBT community in Computer Science and tech related areas (data science included). Also, I actively contribute to a number of open source projects which are part of larger organizations and initiatives.

  • My skills to share:
    • Python, R, MATLAB, Fortran, C/C++, data visualization, data analysis / science, version control, web development (full stack), API design, HPC, cloud computing
    • Teaching, mentoring, public speaking, outreach and dissemination, community building