Jeff Glass
Senior Engineer, Exhibit Development at Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Glass is a Senior Engineer specializing in exhibit development with 11 years of experience blending software, hardware, and theatrical craft to create immersive museum interactives. Based in Chicago, he architects and implements exhibit automation, custom control software, lighting and audio systems, CAD designs, and prototypes—translating creative concepts into robust, maintainable installations. A former PyScript maintainer and creator of pyscript.recipes, he brings front-end and WASM/Pyodide expertise to browser-based Python integrations, having contributed to core UI and build improvements for a high-profile open-source project. His background in theatre lighting and production gives him a rare practical fluency in live systems and real-time troubleshooting, enabling solutions that balance elegance, reliability, and audience experience.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Theatre, Mathematics, BA, Theatre, Mathematics at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
event-handling10
python10
front-end-development10
codemirror9
html9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
wasm-pack8
rust-wasm8
build-process7
python-modules6
pyodide6
streamlit6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pyscript/pyscript
May 2022 - Jan 2023
An open source platform for Python in the browser. https://pyscript.net Docs: https://docs.pyscript.net/ Try it: https://pyscript.com/ Community: https://discord.gg/HxvBtukrg2
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:178 reviews, 24 commits, 114 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily contributed to the front-end and core functionality of the PyScript platform, making significant changes to the JavaScript components and Python integration. Their work involved debugging, refactoring, and enhancing the user interface, including the py-repl component. The user also focused on event handling and the implementation of features related to the `output` and `stderr` attributes of the py-script tag. Additionally, the user made improvements to the project's build process and dependency management.
pythonjavascriptwasm
JeffersGlass/JDMX
Nov 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 9 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
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