Alex Arslan
Manager, Data Science
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Arslan is a Manager of Data Science with 11 years of experience blending production data science, software engineering, and open-source systems work from Redmond, WA. He leads analytics teams at Beacon Biosignals while maintaining deep hands-on expertise in Julia—contributing to core projects like the Julia language, Pkg.jl, DataFrames.jl and the widely used Documenter.jl and BenchmarkTools.jl. His background spans clinical biostatistics and CI/CD/build engineering, giving him a rare combination of rigorous statistical practice and robust automation for reproducible research. Alex’s contributions include low-level numerical and array work in julia's core, cross-platform build automation in travis-build and packaging via Yggdrasil, showing comfort across language internals, tooling and deployment. He holds a Master’s in Applied Statistics from Penn State and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Washington, and is known for quietly improving developer UX—syntax highlighting, docs and tooling—that makes Julia easier to use.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at University of WashingtonMaster's degree, Applied Statistics, Master's degree, Applied Statistics at Penn State University
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Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaStats/StatsBase.jl
Jun 2016 - Aug 2022
Basic statistics for Julia
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 55 reviews, 44 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the `statsbase.jl` repository by implementing new features and refactoring existing code. The commits demonstrate a focus on expanding statistical functions, including adding new functions and improving existing ones. Furthermore, the user addressed code quality by removing dependencies and fixing type differences to improve code clarity and maintainability.
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JuliaLang/www.julialang.org
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Julia Project website
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 173 commits, 253 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alex's contributions primarily involve updating the JuliaLang website, specifically the downloads section. They made significant changes related to listing and linking to various Julia releases, including adding binaries for new versions (0.7.0, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4) and removing older releases, demonstrating a focus on managing and maintaining the website's content. This included modifying the HTML structure of the download pages and updating the links to the correct versions, improving the user experience by keeping the download information current.
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