Athan Reines
Software Engineer at stdlib-js quansight data-apis
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarAthan Reines is a software engineer and engineering manager in San Francisco with 13 years of experience and a PhD in Physics from the University of Oxford. He blends deep technical rigor with practical engineering, contributing across full-stack and back-end work—particularly in Node.js and JavaScript—while focusing on scientific and numerical computing. As a core developer on stdlib, he has helped extend JavaScript’s capabilities for numerical workflows, and his open-source contributions to JupyterLab (including the popular Table of Contents and Git extensions) show attention to UX details like collapsible headers and polished UI styling. He’s comfortable shipping features that bridge research tooling and production—adding WebAssembly support, doctest improvements, and Binder demos to make reproducible notebooks more usable. Colleagues describe him as someone who applies research-grade problem solving to developer-facing products, quietly improving developer experience in widely used scientific tools.
13 years of coding experience
julia, r, git, awk, python, c/c++, css, html, go, matlab, javascript, English
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
table-of-contents10
jupyter10
typescript10
jupyterlab10
jupyterlab-extension10
typescript-types10
error-handling10
webassembly10
typescripts10
react10
multidimensional-arrays9
testing9
data-structure9
markdown9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jupyterlab/jupyterlab-toc
Oct 2019 - May 2020
Table of Contents extension for JupyterLab
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 4 PRs, 104 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Athan primarily contributed to the JupyterLab Table of Contents extension, focusing on adding features related to the collapsible headers. They implemented the functionality to collapse and expand notebook cells based on heading levels, including the addition of a twist button for interacting with the collapsible sections. Furthermore, the user updated the demo notebook to include programmatically generated Markdown to showcase the extension's capabilities and address potential issues with hierarchical display outputs.
jupyterlab-extensiontable-of-contentsjupyterlabjupytercontents
jupyterlab/jupyterlab-git
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
A Git extension for JupyterLab
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:258 commits, 23 PRs, 7 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Athan primarily contributed to the Git extension for JupyterLab by modifying the UI components and related styling. Their work focused on improving the user experience by adjusting the refresh interval, incorporating file change events, and refining the visual presentation of the UI elements. Key changes included adjusting icon spacing, branch dropdown alignment, and updating styles for elements like the commit box and branch menu.
git-extensionversion-controljupyterlab-extensionjupyterlabjupyter
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