Nelson Minar
Recurring Intern at FiasCo, Inc
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNelson Minar is a retired software engineer and distributed systems designer with 15 years of experience and a background spanning research, startups, and major tech. He was a Staff Software Engineer at Google in the early 2000s, co-founded Popular Power, and earlier worked as a research programmer at the Santa Fe Institute, blending rigorous academic thinking with production engineering. Based in San Francisco, he remains engaged as a recurring intern at FiasCo, Inc., bringing seasoned judgment to ongoing projects. An active open-source contributor, Nelson has improved core functionality in widely used projects like D3.js—adding features such as clamp() to numeric scales and optimizing internal implementations. Trained in mathematics at Reed College and with graduate work at MIT Media Lab, he combines theoretical depth with practical system design. He is notable for moving fluidly between research ideas and pragmatic code, quietly shaping tools developers rely on.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MAS, Media Lab, MAS, Media Lab at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at Reed College
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Github Skills (21)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
visualization10
charts10
bash10
data-visualisation10
svg10
data-visualization10
shell10
d3js10
visualizations10
python9
hierarchy9
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
d3/d3
Mar 2011 - Apr 2011
Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Nelson primarily contributed to the D3.js library, enhancing its functionality and addressing existing issues. Their work includes adding the `clamp()` method to numeric scales, which restricts output values within a defined range. The commits also reflect improvements in the code's efficiency, as evidenced by the suggested shorter implementation. They appear to focus on the internal workings and core functionality of the library.
svgvisualizationdata-visualizationchartschart
NelsonMinar/airport-tilemill
Sep 2011 - Apr 2013
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year 7 months
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