Jim Rothstein
Software Engineer
Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJim Rothstein is a software engineer based in Eugene, Oregon with a decade of hands-on experience and a deep specialization in R and its ecosystem. Over the past five years he has focused on R-focused tooling—shiny, quarto, httr2 APIs, git workflows—and values mastering core skills like base R, complex list manipulation, data wrangling, and database joins. His background includes early software programming at financial institutions and a mix of analytics, teaching, and web management roles that give him a strong blend of practical engineering and communication skills. Jim is active in the R community through Stack Overflow and book clubs, and he enjoys translating R’s flexibility into production-ready applications and reproducible reports. He presented on API-driven R applications in February 2022, reflecting a penchant for bridging data access with interactive delivery. Colleagues describe him as someone who prefers deep mastery of fundamentals over chasing packages, producing reliable, maintainable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMS, MS at University of Chicago
Chinese
Stackoverflow
155reputation
27kreached
5answers
4questions
Github Skills (90)
nvim10
r10
mixed-models10
adam10
clinical-trials10
shiny9
linear-models9
stan9
truncation9
exploratory9
feature-extraction9
variable-selection9
gmm9
r-package9
statistics8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jimrothstein/youtube_api
Jul 2020 - Jan 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 101 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 7 months
jimrothstein/SHINY
Jul 2022 - Oct 2025
Contributions:85 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 3 years 3 months
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