Jon Herman
Software Engineer
Summary
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RockstarJon Herman is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience, blending practical backend development with a strong analytical foundation from UC Davis Civil & Environmental Engineering. He contributes to open-source scientific tooling—most notably adding a CLI and sampling integrations to the widely used SALib sensitivity analysis library—demonstrating an ability to make research-grade code more accessible and automatable. Comfortable working at the intersection of engineering and domain science, he turns complex numerical methods into reliable developer-facing tools. Colleagues can count on him for pragmatic implementations that bridge scripts, shell tooling, and Python packages, and for quietly improving usability in established open-source projects.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
command-line-interface10
python10
command-line10
cli10
numpy9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SALib/SALib
Apr 2013 - Apr 2020
Sensitivity Analysis Library in Python. Contains Sobol, Morris, FAST, and other methods.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 251 commits, 71 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jon implemented a command-line interface (CLI) for the sampling functions within the SALib library. They developed a Python script (`__main__.py`) to handle command-line arguments and integrate with the sampling methods. Furthermore, the user added a shell script example for running the sampling functions and incorporated method-specific sampling options from the command line.
pythonsensitivity-analysis-librarysensitivity-analysissobolmorris
jdherman/awr-hbv-benchmark
Mar 2013 - Sep 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
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