Jeff Reese is a retired technology leader with over four decades of hands-on experience in architecture, system development, and team management, most recently serving as Tech Lead at ADP. Based in Ann Arbor, he blends deep enterprise systems expertise with an academic streak—as an Assistant Professor of Statistics on GitHub—and has contributed full‑stack improvements to the well-regarded scvi-tools repository for single-cell and spatial omics. His background spans practical financial services roles at the University of Michigan to large-scale system stewardship, showing a rare continuity from cashiering and gift processing to leading technical teams. Known for pragmatic documentation and tooling contributions (including CI, linting, and CUDA-aware fixes), he brings a meticulous, systems-oriented approach to complex software and data problems.
11 years of coding experience
43 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Eastern Michigan University
Deep probabilistic analysis of single-cell and spatial omics data
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:101 commits, 138 PRs, 168 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jeff contributed to various aspects of the scvi-tools repository. They added initial skeleton code for documentation, contributed to the documentation and installation instructions, and enabled flake8 for syntax checking. Further contributions included adding the Travis CI status to the README, and making adjustments to the code to address potential CUDA errors.
tools for automatically determining the identities of authors in collections of publications
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
authorsidentitiescollectionspublications
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