Andrew Dawes
Senior Staff Engineer at Synopsys Inc
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Dawes is a Senior Staff Engineer and physicist with 14 years of multidisciplinary experience building practical solutions across software, optics, automation, instrumentation, and electronics. He holds a PhD from Duke and has transitioned academic rigor into industry impact at Synopsys, driving lithography simulation, resist modeling, and advanced patterning workflows while engaging directly with customers. A prolific educator and communicator, he has authored 58 publications, delivered over 5,000 hours of instruction, and secured substantial NSF funding while mentoring dozens of student projects. Technically fluent in Python and C++ with hands-on hardware skills (Arduino, CNC, 3D printing, RF), he also contributes to prominent open-source projects like IPython/Jupyter enhancing front-end usability. Based in Portland, OR, he combines deep experimental optics knowledge—atom trapping, vacuum systems, and free-space/fiber optics—with a practical maker’s instinct for prototyping and automation.
14 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Duke UniversityBA, Physics, BA, Physics at Whitman College
Github Skills (8)
html10
notebook10
jupyter-notebook10
javascript10
ipython10
front-end-development10
jupyter10
css7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ipython/ipython
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Andrew focused on enhancing the user interface of the IPython Notebook, specifically the quick help section related to keyboard shortcuts. Their contributions involved adding, formatting, and organizing modifier key information within the quickhelp.js file. The changes included refactoring the code with a new function and restructuring the display of keyboard shortcuts.
ipythonjupyterdata-sciencenotebookpython
jupyter/notebook
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Jupyter Interactive Notebook
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the Jupyter Notebook application. Their contributions involved modifying the `quickhelp.js` file to incorporate new features, specifically focusing on key modifier information for macOS. The user introduced a new function to automate the building of key names, and cleaned up the function, including layout and styling. The user's changes involved modifications to HTML templates and JavaScript code within the repository.
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