Brenton Horne
Mathematics Tutor
Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBrenton Horne is a mathematically rigorous researcher and tutor with 11 years of experience tutoring over 100 students and advanced training in mathematics, statistics and computational science. He progressed rapidly from high-school-level research—coauthoring work with an associate professor and self-teaching tensor calculus and quantum mechanics—to a Master of Research and current PhD candidate in health, applied statistics and data science at UniSQ. Proficient in Python, Julia, R, MATLAB, JavaScript and shell scripting, he has applied high-performance numerical methods to celestial dynamics research and contributed front-end improvements to the popular file-icons Atom repo. A long-time Linux power user (Arch Linux primary since 2018), he favors LaTeX for reproducible technical writing and plans a thesis by publication linking parental factors to childhood obesity risk. His profile blends deep theoretical grounding with practical computational fluency and a track record of exceeding research expectations.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Health, applied statistics and data science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Health, applied statistics and data science at University of Southern Queensland
Github Skills (6)
atom-editor10
css10
lessc10
glyph-icons10
file-icons10
iconsets10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
file-icons/atom
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Atom file-specific icons for improved visual grepping.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 23 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Brenton primarily contributed to enhancing the file icon set for the Atom editor. Their commits focused on adding new file extensions and their corresponding icons within the `file-icons.less` stylesheet. The user made multiple updates, including fixing issues reported in pull requests, adding icons for new file types, and maintaining existing configurations. This work reflects a specialization in front-end development and the visual aspects of the Atom editor.
octiconsimprovedatomgreppingicons
fusion809/fusion809.github.io
Jun 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:568 pushes, 2 branches, 5 comments in 4 years 8 months
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