Alexander Booth
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at nteract.io
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Booth is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer based in Boulder with a decade of experience building ML systems and developer-facing tools. At GitHub he blends applied ML with a strong front-end instinct—continuing a long open-source streak from nteract and contributions to flagship projects like JupyterLab and nteract where he improved notebook UX and editor behavior. He holds advanced degrees in physics and analytics (plus undergrad training in math and mechanical engineering), giving him a rare mix of rigorous quantitative reasoning and practical software craftsmanship. Comfortable across the stack, he’s known for shipping UI-focused enhancements (React/Flow) that make complex computational workflows feel intuitive.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of MaineMaster’s Degree, Physics, Master’s Degree, Physics at University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
jupyter10
jupyterlab10
front-end-development10
react10
flow-control9
user-interface9
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
typescript9
work-flow9
typescript-types9
control-flow9
workflow-automation9
typescripts9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nteract/archived-desktop-app
Oct 2016 - Oct 2018
📘 The interactive computing suite for you! ✨
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:131 commits, 129 PRs, 82 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the frontend of the `nteract/nteract` repository. Their work focused on adding and modifying React components, specifically within the cell creation and editor areas. They also implemented features such as zoom reset functionality and example notebooks. The user's contributions involved both UI enhancements and improvements to the overall user experience, and also included code refactoring via the addition of Flow types.
nteractdesktop-applicationmonoreporeactpython
jupyterlab/jupyterlab
Nov 2016 - Feb 2018
JupyterLab computational environment.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 9 PRs, 28 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the JupyterLab frontend, implementing and modifying features related to notebook functionality and the user interface. They added a "close and shutdown" command, integrated dialog boxes for notebook closure, and modified the notebook context menu. Furthermore, the user made changes to the file browser, implementing renaming on the enter key for macOS and opening files on other platforms. The user also addressed issues with syntax highlighting in the code editor.
jupyterlabjupyter
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