Kevin Nowaczyk
Distillery Research Chemist at Buffalo Trace Distillery
Frankfort, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Nowaczyk is a distillery research chemist with 11 years at Buffalo Trace and over two decades of hands-on fermentation and process engineering experience across biotech and industrial settings. Trained as a Chemical and Biological Engineer at UW–Madison, he has led pilot plant projects, optimized fermentation processes for recombinant yeast and microalgae, and managed scale-up for polymer and specialty lipid production. At Buffalo Trace he blends analytical chemistry with product-focused R&D to improve spirit quality and process yield, drawing on earlier roles as a supervisor and entrepreneur who ran a handcrafted soda company. Unusually for a bench scientist, he contributes numerical back-end code to open-source projects like the math-php library, implementing special functions and probability distributions that reflect a strong aptitude for quantitative methods. Based in Frankfort, KY, he combines practical plant operations savvy with a curious, code-capable approach to problem solving that bridges lab, pilot, and production scales.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Chemical and Biological Engineering, BS, Chemical and Biological Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (13)
probability10
numerical-analysis10
php10
probability-distribution10
distributions10
sql-server6
unit-testing6
microservices6
sqlclr6
linux6
http-request6
phpunit6
mocking6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
markrogoyski/math-php
Jul 2016 - Oct 2021
Powerful modern math library for PHP: Features descriptive statistics and regressions; Continuous and discrete probability distributions; Linear algebra with matrices and vectors, Numerical analysis; special mathematical functions; Algebra
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 580 commits, 228 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the `math-php` library by implementing mathematical functions. Their work included updating and adding new functions in the `Special.php` and `Distribution.php` files, focusing on special mathematical functions like regularized incomplete beta function, and distributions like the normal distribution, student t distribution, and more. The commits suggest a strong focus on numerical analysis and probability calculations, with a shift of functionalities to new files and proper documentation. These additions improved the library's overall functionality and coverage of mathematical concepts.
distributionsmathematicsmathematicalmatrixvector
Beakerboy/PezBase
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:244 pushes, 1 branch, 13 comments in 20 days
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