Michael Plews
Co-Founder at Ohmic Labs
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Plews is a battery testing and materials scientist turned founder with a decade of experience building test operations and analytics teams for next-generation energy storage. He led full-scale high-voltage test operations at Form Energy and scaled data-driven yield and reliability programs at QuantumScape, managing teams from technicians to PhDs. Now co-founder of Ohmic Labs, he focuses on making battery testing software better and has hands-on experience developing battery testing platforms. Michael combines deep electrochemical and materials research (PhD in inorganic chemistry and postdoc work on semiconductors) with practical software and CLI contributions—evidenced by back-end work on the extensible papis document manager—to streamline lab workflows and accelerate product introduction.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master in Chemistry (MChem w/ Hons) with Study in North America Chemistry, Master in Chemistry (MChem w/ Hons) with Study in North America Chemistry at The University of ManchesterDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Inorganic Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Inorganic Chemistry at University of Illinois ChicagoExchange Program (Non-Degree) Chemistry, Exchange Program (Non-Degree) Chemistry at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (7)
bibtex10
command-line-interface10
python10
cli10
command-line10
documentation9
tex7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
papis/papis
Nov 2017 - Nov 2018
Powerful and highly extensible command-line based document and bibliography manager.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 19 PRs, 46 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the command-line interface (CLI) of the `papis` document and bibliography manager. They implemented new features, such as the `--file` and `--ref-format` flags, which expanded the functionality of the export and add commands, respectively. The user also made modifications to existing commands like `open` and `update`, enhancing the user's ability to manage and interact with document files. They also created and improved documentation for the scripting functionality, and fixed bugs.
pythonscholarcrossrefclicommand-line-tool
michaelplews/materials-research
Apr 2016 - Feb 2020
This repository holds Python scripts used for day-to-day data analysis required by my graduate degree.
Contributions:38 commits, 2 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 years 10 months
data-analysispythondata-sciencegraduateday
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