Jonathan Church
Staff at Lam Research
Gainesville, Florida, Belgium
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Top SchoolJonathan Church is a Staff engineer with a decade of experience at the intersection of materials science and semiconductor process integration, currently driving deposition and film-innovation efforts at Lam Research. He began his career building custom ALD systems and probing nanoscale subsurface layers during a Ph.D. in Materials Science, bringing hands-on expertise in XPS, EM, and modeling to product-focused equipment development. At Lam he leveraged the company’s Novellus acquisition to bridge deposition and etch disciplines, delivering integrated solutions for the industry’s shift to 3D NAND. Equally comfortable in the lab and in code, he has contributed backend API and platform integrations to open-source projects like Botkit, demonstrating a knack for practical automation and cross-domain tooling. Colleagues know him as part materials scientist, part integration engineer, part chemist, and part data scientist—someone who anticipates inflection points by combining deep domain knowledge with pragmatic engineering. Based in Gainesville with international ties, he pairs academic rigor with industry impact to help semiconductor equipment keep pace with rapid technology transitions.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Materials Science and Engineering at University of DelawareBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at University of Illinois at Chicago
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Github Skills (14)
botkit10
javascript10
slack-api10
facebook-api10
chatbot9
facebook9
apidoc9
api9
nodejs9
bot-framework8
facebook-graph-api6
facebook-messenger-bot6
facebook-messenger6
facebook-chatbot6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
howdyai/botkit
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Botkit is an open source developer tool for building chat bots, apps and custom integrations for major messaging platforms.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Integrations
Back-end Developer & API IntegrationsContributions:45 commits, 24 PRs, 242 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Botkit framework, focusing on enhancing Slack integration and incorporating Facebook Messenger features. They addressed several bugs related to event handling, particularly with bot channel joins and group joins. Furthermore, the user implemented and refined the Facebook Messenger integration, incorporating features like X-Hub verification, thread control, and secondary receiver handling, demonstrating expertise in API integrations and platform-specific adjustments.
alexa-skills-kitbot-applicationbotbotkitfacebook-messenger
lukaszzenko/react-order-book
Jun 2018 - Sep 2024
Simple frontend built in React.JS for displaying order book fetched from BitMEX.
Contributions:2 PRs in 6 years 4 months
reactorder-bookreact-jsfrontendbitmex
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