Arthur Sugden
Founder And CEO at Allref
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArthur Sugden is a founder and CEO with nine years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, biology, and rapid prototyping of behavioral testing tools. He combines academic pedigree—a PhD in neuroscience from Brown and postdoctoral work at Harvard—with industry roles building ML systems at Govini and as CTO at Behaivior. Based in Pittsburgh, he teaches and consults across institutions including Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne while leading Allref, translating research-grade methods into product-ready solutions. An active open-source contributor, Arthur has improved typings and features for the widely used discord.js library and contributed game-mod back-end and UI work, showing a knack for both infrastructure and user-facing code. He brings a pragmatic, experimental approach to problems, often blending neuroscience insight with full-stack engineering to deliver rapid prototypes that scale. Colleagues describe him as unusually curious and unafraid to ship imperfect ideas to learn quickly.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Physics Astronomy, Bachelor's degree Physics Astronomy at Wesleyan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Molecular Biology Cellular Biology and Biochemistry (Neuroscience), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Molecular Biology Cellular Biology and Biochemistry (Neuroscience) at Brown University
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
discord-js10
discord10
bots10
typescript10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
googlebot10
amo10
nodejs10
typescripts10
game-development10
csharp10
unity3d10
api-design9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
slushiegoose/Town-Of-Us
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
An Among Us mod containing a bunch of roles
Role in this project:
Back-end & UI Developer
Back-end & UI DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 43 commits, 31 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Arthur primarily focused on modifying and updating the Among Us mod, implementing new features, and refining existing ones. Their work included removing unused assets, updating colors, improving kill range logic, and handling disconnected players within the game. The user also modified several UI elements, integrating with the existing game code.
modamong-usamong
discordjs/discord.js
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
A powerful JavaScript library for interacting with the Discord API
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:556 reviews, 73 commits, 73 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Arthur contributed to the typings and documentation for the discord.js library, adding and improving the type definitions for various classes and methods. They implemented new features like the `fetchBan` method, adding error handling and functionality for retrieving ban information. Additionally, the user refactored and improved the code, fixing bugs related to guild and client properties, and adding missing events for invites.
apidiscord-jsjavascript-librarydiscorddiscordjs
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