Brian Skinn
Research Engineer at LaunchDev
Dayton, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Skinn is a research engineer and MIT ChemE PhD with 11 years of experience translating electrochemical and chemical engineering research into practical tools and products. He blends deep domain expertise in heat/mass transfer, reaction kinetics, and pulse electrochemical processing with strong software skills—Python, scientific libraries, DevOps, and VBA—focused on automation, data analysis, and GUI tooling. At Faraday he led SBIR/STTR proposal efforts and built numerous Python and Office-based tools; more recently he contributes to open-source projects like the popular xonsh shell, improving prompt and virtual environment handling. Now based in Dayton, he supports OpenTeams’ consulting network with technical marketing, community building, and AI/ML-focused scientific Python work, while producing webinars and growing an open source architect community. Colleagues know him for turning complex experimental workflows into reliable, user-friendly automation and for a knack of connecting lab-scale science with developer ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Chemical Engineering, PhD Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS Chemical Engineering, BS Chemical Engineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityFairborn High School (OH)
Japanese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
11reputation
304reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (14)
xonsh10
shell10
pytest10
python10
testing10
command-line9
environment-variables9
cli8
documentation8
devops7
nltk6
named-entity-recognition6
entity-relationship6
regex6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
xonsh/xonsh
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
🐚 Python-powered shell. Full-featured, cross-platform and AI-friendly.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Brian focused on enhancing the xonsh shell's prompt management functionality. They implemented features for handling virtual environment prompts, including the ability to disable or customize the display using environment variables. They also added tests to ensure the prompt behaved correctly under various conditions, including when no environment is active, and when environment variables are set. Furthermore, they added documentation and news entries to inform users about the new environment variable features.
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bskinn/outlook-vba-atchmgr
Jun 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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