Christopher Ostrouchov
Principal Software Engineer at Posit PBC
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Ostrouchov is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building cloud-native and on-prem platforms that power numerical and data science workflows. He architects and leads major open-source projects—most notably Nebari and Conda-Store—used by Top 500 companies to manage environments and deploy data science platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem clusters. His background blends computational materials research and high-performance computing with practical DevOps: he’s optimized distributed Spark and Dask workloads using Numba, Cython, and C++ and helped roll out conda-libmamba-solver to millions of users. At Quansight he built company-wide GitOps automation for multi-cloud account administration and now drives marketplace integrations for Posit Workbench and Package Manager. Colleagues rely on him for both deep technical design and hands-on delivery, and he often participates in sales and customer engagements as the DevOps subject-matter expert. Based in Knoxville, TN, he pairs academic rigor with a passion for open source and reproducible numerical computing.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics at Clemson UniversityMaster's degree, Computational Materials Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computational Materials Science and Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
English
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Github Skills (200)
solver10
duckdb10
operating-system10
broccoli10
task-scheduler10
bigquery10
data-science10
openid-connect10
nixpkgs10
jupyterlab-extension10
jupyterhub10
pyarrow10
math10
impala10
package-management10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
nix-community/nixpkgs-pytools
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
Tools for removing the tedious nature of creating nixpkgs derivations [maintainer=@costrouc]
Contributions:1 release, 43 commits, 3 PRs in 10 months
nixpkgspythonnix
costrouc/pysrim
Feb 2016 - Jul 2019
Automation, Analysis, and Plotting of SRIM Calculations
Contributions:1 release, 169 commits, 20 pushes in 3 years 6 months
automationsrimnumpysimulationion-cascades
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