Richard Si
Open Source Maintainer Of Pip at Python Packaging Authority (PyPA)
Greater Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo Metropolitan Area Canada
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Richard Si is a Computer Science undergraduate at the University of Waterloo and an open-source maintainer with six years of hands-on experience in the Python ecosystem. As a core committer to pip and a former maintainer of Black, he contributes to tools that touch millions of Python developers, focusing on performance, reliability, and developer ergonomics. His contributions range from lazy-loading and import reductions in pip to compiler optimizations in mypy and CI/documentation improvements for Bandersnatch. A lifelong volunteer and community moderator, he pairs technical stewardship with mentorship and event work in large Python communities. Outside code, he’s interested in urban planning, public education, and competitive swimming, bringing a discipline and community-minded perspective to engineering problems.
6 years of coding experience
Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD), Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) at Kitchener Collegiate InstituteBachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
French, English
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Github Skills (37)
type-check10
python10
sphinx10
testing10
packaging10
formatter10
cicd10
formatters10
compiler-optimization10
pip10
type-checking10
documentation10
code-formatting10
mypyc10
debug9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
psf/black
May 2020 - Jan 2023
The uncompromising Python code formatter
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 618 reviews, 174 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Richard contributed to the documentation and core functionality of the Black code formatter. Their work involved refactoring the documentation structure, improving code style, and maintaining documentation generation logic. They also implemented fixes to the command-line interface, including making the `python -m black` command work correctly, and corrected a spacing issue within the code.
python-codepre-commit-hookpythongofmtcodeformatter
pypa/bandersnatch
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
A PyPI mirror client according to PEP 381 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0381/
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:97 reviews, 30 commits, 85 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to improving the project's documentation and CI/CD processes. They updated the documentation to reflect dependency changes and migrated to MyST-Parser. The user also implemented improvements to the documentation CI pipeline, including adding link checking and addressing build failures. Furthermore, they refactored code to align with more modern Python versions and added type annotations.
pythonpypidevpypi-mirror-clientpep381
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