Chris Colbert
Staff Engineer at OpenTeams
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Colbert is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 16+ years of experience building high-performance UIs and data-driven applications across finance and scientific computing. He is the co-creator and lead architect of JupyterLab and the creator of the underlying PhosphorJS toolkit, work that has materially shaped the modern interactive computing ecosystem. Comfortable across Typescript, Javascript, Python, C and C++, he has a track record of moving complex UI architectures from research prototypes to production-grade platforms. As a serial founder and executive, he pairs hands-on engineering with product leadership at companies he founded and led, and previously drove UI and language work on Enaml/Atom/Kiwi that advanced declarative interfaces in Python. Based in Austin, he brings a practical systems mindset informed by both academic training in mechanical engineering and real-world experience at firms like Bloomberg and J.P. Morgan.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science Mechanical Engineering at University of South Florida
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (28)
uitest10
opencv10
javascript10
python10
jupyter10
image-processing10
css10
jupyterlab10
codegen10
numpy10
compiler-design10
bytecode10
cython10
gui-testing10
ui-testing10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nucleic/enaml
Mar 2013 - Jul 2019
Declarative User Interfaces for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 1742 commits, 25 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily worked on improving the Enaml framework by introducing new language features for templates. Their commits focused on refactoring the compiler, implementing code generation for new language features such as static attributes and making improvements to handle the new features. They also worked on implementing various enhancements, including the addition of "default" flag for dialog buttons and support for changing button style in the tool bar.
pythonenaml
jupyterlab/jupyterlab
Jan 2016 - Oct 2019
JupyterLab computational environment.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:126 commits, 80 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the user interface and styling aspects of JupyterLab. Their work focused on theming, including setting the application background color, updating sidebar and tab bar styles, and normalizing property naming conventions. They also modified CSS for the file browser, command palette, and help interface, as well as the addition of shortcuts. The commits indicate a focus on improving the visual appearance and usability of the JupyterLab environment.
jupyterlabjupyter
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