Joshua Newton
Open Source Python Maintainer NeuroPoly Lab at Polytechnique Montréal
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJoshua Newton is an open-source Python maintainer with a decade of engineering experience who leads development of the Spinal Cord Toolbox at NeuroPoly Lab, Polytechnique Montréal. He blends deep medical imaging knowledge with practical software craftsmanship—overseeing a legacy codebase, writing CI/CD, and turning research prototypes into production features used in high-impact clinical studies. Comfortable with surgical, responsibly scoped changes, he mentors students, triages community support, and authors developer docs and tutorials to lower the barrier to adoption. His prior work accelerating scikit-learn with a Cython topic-modeling optimization (~500x) and deploying ML models to mobile platforms shows a knack for squeezing performance from scientific code and shipping reproducible research. Based in Whitby, Ontario, he prefers mission-driven open source over VC-style growth, keeping user needs and research integrity central to his work.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 3.7/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 3.7/4.0 at University of Victoria
Github Skills (200)
sphinx-doc10
pydicom10
metadata10
adonisjs10
numerics10
svg10
digital-pathology10
onnx10
nifti10
neural-network10
mri10
data-science10
dicom10
visualization10
keras10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
MLH-Fellowship/scikit-learn
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
scikit-learn: machine learning in Python
Contributions:83 commits, 36 pushes, 11 branches in 2 months
pythondata-sciencelearn-machine-learningneural-networksmachine-learning
neuropoly/changelog
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Create a changelog file from all the merged pull requests
Contributions:22 reviews, 6 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 4 months
mergedchangelogpull-requests
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