James Bednar
Director Of Custom Services at Anaconda, Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJames Bednar is a Director of Custom Services at Anaconda with over a decade of experience bridging academic research and production-grade Python tooling for data science, machine learning, and visualization. A former Reader in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh, he has led large research programs and supervised dozens of Python-based theses, then translated that expertise into customer-focused engineering teams that extend open-source projects to meet real-world needs. He founded the HoloViz project and is an active contributor across the HoloViz ecosystem (Panel, HoloViews, Datashader, hvPlot) and Bokeh, combining full-stack development, data-scientific visualization, and technical writing to improve documentation and UX. Based in Austin, he excels at turning complex workflows into reusable open-source improvements and is known for pragmatic contributions like generalizing image panes and integrating async stream processing.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (32)
data-visualizations10
holoviews10
tab-panel10
bokeh10
python10
sphinx10
async10
data-visualisation10
user-guide10
control-panel10
panels10
datashader10
jupyter-notebook10
data-visualization10
windows-gui10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
holoviz/datashader
Jan 2016 - Apr 2022
Quickly and accurately render even the largest data.
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:22 releases, 120 reviews, 550 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the visualization aspect of the project, focusing on enhancing the presentation and understanding of data. They addressed exception handling, file renaming, and typo corrections within the code. Their major contributions involved improving the example notebooks related to the library, demonstrating their knowledge of visualizing data.
renderrasterizationdata-visualizationsdatashaderholoviz
holoviz/hvplot
Apr 2018 - Jul 2021
A high-level plotting API for pandas, dask, xarray, and networkx built on HoloViews
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:7 releases, 52 reviews, 20 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the project's documentation. They fixed typos, cleaned up existing documentation, and updated the user guide. They also addressed broken links and moved the Gitter site, ensuring the documentation was accurate and accessible. Their contributions improved the clarity and usability of the project's documentation.
apidata-analysispythonnetworkxdata-science
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