Michael Goerz
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory
Westfield, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Goerz is a computational physicist and postdoctoral research fellow with 15 years of experience applying theoretical physics and software engineering to quantum control problems at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Previously a research associate at Stanford and research staff in Germany, he holds a Dr. rer. nat. in theoretical physics (magna cum laude) and combines deep academic rigor with hands-on development of open-source tooling. He contributes to JuliaQuantumControl and has improved widely used projects like Sphinx by enhancing diagram rendering and intersphinx behavior, reflecting an uncommon blend of domain science and full-stack documentation engineering. Based in New Jersey, he brings a track record of turning complex quantum-control concepts into reproducible code and usable documentation across academic and government labs.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Phys., Physics, Dipl. Phys., Physics at Freie Universität BerlinDr. rer. nat., Theoretical Physics, magna cum laude, Dr. rer. nat., Theoretical Physics, magna cum laude at University of Kassel
Github Skills (9)
python10
graphviz10
sphinx10
documentation10
testing9
restructuredtext9
css8
markdown-it4
markdown4
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
sphinx-doc/sphinx
Apr 2018 - Mar 2019
The Sphinx documentation generator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Michael significantly improved the Sphinx documentation generator by modifying and testing the graphviz and inheritance diagram extensions. Their work involved wrapping graphviz diagrams in additional HTML tags for CSS styling and ensuring proper rendering in different formats. They also introduced an option for case-insensitive matching in intersphinx and updated the mathjax CDN URL. Furthermore, they updated the docs of inheritance-diagram "parts" option and included the examples.
pythonsphinx-documentationdocumentation-generatorsphinx-extensiondocumentation-tool
goerz/fortune.py
Dec 2018 - Jan 2021
Python implementation of the famous fortune utility (stable)
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 comments, 1 issue in 2 years 1 month
fortunepython-implementationpython
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