Grant Nestor
Founder at Hammies Shorts
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolGrant Nestor is a founder and software consultant with 11 years of experience blending business, design, and front-end development, based in Santa Barbara. A former Project Jupyter core developer and co-lead for the Notebook and JupyterLab teams, he has shipped UI and data-rendering improvements across widely used projects like JupyterLab, IPython, and nteract. He specializes in front-end engineering and build/tooling work—ranging from CSS theming and virtualized grids to integrating JavaScript, Java, and Python build systems in projects like BeakerX. Beyond open source, Grant has founded multiple startups and runs Hammies Shorts, a retro apparel brand that reflects his knack for niche product storytelling. Known for moving between business development, UX, and code, he brings a rare combination of community leadership and hands-on implementation to developer-facing software.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Santa Barbara HighBA Entrepreneurial Studies, BA Entrepreneurial Studies at USC Marshall School of Business
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Github Skills (55)
data-visualizations10
json10
notebook10
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
mobile-development10
package-management10
python10
google-analytics10
jupyter10
sphinx10
css10
ipython10
data-visualisation10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jupyter/notebook
Aug 2016 - May 2020
Jupyter Interactive Notebook
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 247 commits, 174 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Grant primarily contributed to the Jupyter Notebook's user interface, focusing on the display of notifications, the addition of MathML support, and enhancements to the file browser. Their commits included modifying Javascript files to implement and style notification widgets related to notebook trust and kernel status. Additionally, the user worked on improving the overall layout and visual appearance of the notebook interface, by modifying less files and adding CSS.
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jupyterlab/jupyterlab
Oct 2016 - Jun 2019
JupyterLab computational environment.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:162 commits, 51 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Grant focused on enhancing the user interface of the JupyterLab environment. Their commits included implementing CSS variables for theming, highlighting table rows on hover, and adding JSON and VDOM extensions, demonstrating a focus on improving data rendering and user interaction. They also addressed minor issues such as fixing TSLint errors and adding support for event handlers in the VDOM extension, contributing to the overall quality of the project.
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