Gem Newman
Executive Producer at Life, the Universe & Everything Else Podcast
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Top SchoolGem Newman is an Executive Producer and senior developer with 13 years of experience building full-stack systems and contributing to robust open-source tooling, particularly in Julia. Based in Winnipeg, they blend hands-on engineering (Python, C#, React) with architecture and project leadership, having improved CSV handling in JuliaData/CSV.jl to make data ingestion more reliable across tricky stream scenarios. Gem leads the long-running Life, the Universe & Everything Else podcast and has steered non-profits focused on scientific skepticism, reflecting a commitment to clear thinking and community impact. A habitual tinkerer, they publish small terminal and web utilities (tread, imgii, an expense tracker) and maintain a public portfolio and codebase that reveal both curiosity and practical polish.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Medicine - MD, Doctor of Medicine - MD at University of Manitoba
English, French
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Github Skills (10)
file-processing10
file-handling10
data-structures10
csv10
file-access10
fileio10
data-structure10
julia10
testing9
data-analysis8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaData/CSV.jl
Mar 2017 - Jan 2018
Utility library for working with CSV and other delimited files in the Julia programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 12 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Gem primarily focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the `csv.jl` library. Their contributions addressed critical bug fixes related to reading CSV files, particularly those with empty content, streams, or header and transform configurations. They also worked on improving the handling of non-rereadable and seekable streams. Their work significantly enhances the robustness of the library for a variety of data input scenarios.
csvcsv-readerdataframesdelimited-filesdelimited
spurll/vote
Mar 2015 - Feb 2023
A web service that allows people to vote on things using a variety of voting methods.
Contributions:57 commits, 9 PRs, 51 pushes in 7 years 11 months
djangovoting-methodsvotingvotevariety
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