Rowan Cockett
Founder at Geosci.xyz
Greater Calgary Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolRowan Cockett is a founder and technology leader with 13+ years building web-first scientific visualization and collaboration platforms that bridge academia, industry, and education. He founded and bootstrapped 3point Science (acquired by Seequent), led Seequent’s cloud and visualization platform teams, and now runs Curvenote to make scientific reports interactive, reproducible, and collaborative. Rowan pairs a PhD in geophysics with hands-on engineering—co-creating open-source projects like SimPEG and Visible Geology that power geoscience simulation, education, and reproducible workflows. He combines product vision, cloud architecture, and front-end dev experience (including meaningful contributions to developer tooling) to turn complex scientific models into accessible web experiences. Based in Calgary, he also cultivates open science communities and recently co-founded the Continuous Science Foundation to further that mission.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Founder YC W21 Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Founder YC W21 Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Y CombinatorDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Geophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Geophysics at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Science (BSc) Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Geological and Earth Sciences/Geosciences at University of Calgary
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
typescript10
docx10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
browser9
nodejs9
react6
firefox6
image-generation6
css6
google-app-engine6
java6
threejs6
data-uri6
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
dolanmiu/docx
Aug 2021 - Oct 2021
Easily generate and modify .docx files with JS/TS with a nice declarative API. Works for Node and on the Browser.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 13 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Rowan primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and API of the `docx` library, particularly around hyperlinks. They added support for children to hyperlinks, allowing for more complex and flexible formatting within the links. The user updated several demo examples, incorporating the new API and demonstrating various hyperlink implementations, including internal and external links, further showcasing the library's capabilities. They also made internal hyperlink implementations consistent with external ones.
jsdocxmicrosoftgeneratejavascript
curvenote/runtime
Apr 2020 - Mar 2022
Create variables and components that react to changes in state through user-defined functions. Based on Redux.
Contributions:7 releases, 1 review, 46 commits in 1 year 11 months
reactreduxuser-defined-functionexplorable-explanationsreactive-documents
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