James Guillochon
Principal Data Scientist
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Guillochon is a Principal Data Scientist in San Diego with a decade of experience bridging high-performance computational physics and production data science. He holds a PhD in astrophysics and built industry-grade tooling—from massively parallel hydrodynamics simulations and Bayesian inference engines (MOSFiT) to robotics controllers and GIS-focused ML—bringing rare domain expertise in physics to commercial problems. James has led large international coding projects, authored dozens of scientific papers, and given hundreds of public talks, and his open-source work includes back-end contributions to the notable Endless Sky game. Comfortable in compiled and interpreted languages, he turns complex simulations and time-series analyses into deployable, user-facing systems and has repeatedly moved research prototypes into production.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
cpp10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
gameplay10
game-dev10
videogames10
opengl9
2d-game9
ui-design8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
endless-sky/endless-sky
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Space exploration, trading, and combat game.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 36 PRs, 140 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:James primarily focused on improving the game's core mechanics and user experience. They implemented new features related to landing on planets and interacting with objects, including generating appropriate nouns for different celestial bodies. The user also made significant changes to the UI, focusing on the display of hotkeys and their related functionalities. Their work demonstrates a solid understanding of the game's underlying logic and UI rendering.
gamerpgc-plus-plustop-down2d-game
astrocatalogs/sne-external-spectra
Jan 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:577 commits, 37 PRs, 548 pushes in 6 years 3 months
supernovaastronomyspectralcatalogspectral-data
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