Scott Black
Senior Software Specialist at Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI)
Logan, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Black is a Senior Software Specialist with over a decade in professional software development and deep expertise in data-focused tooling, including four years working with Hadoop. Based in Logan, Utah, he designs and implements backend and DevOps solutions for scientific research platforms at CUAHSI, and has led Hydroshare integrations for prominent open-source projects like BinderHub and repo2docker. His contributions span provider implementations, API integration, and test-driven enhancements that enable reproducible Jupyter workflows from scientific repositories. Previously he shipped software across academic and commercial environments (including an early RED Hydrogen One launch title), demonstrating a knack for turning complex domain data into usable developer tooling.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Utah State University
Github Skills (14)
testing10
apim10
docker10
api10
jupyterhub10
python10
dockers10
binder10
pkzip9
zip9
jupyter9
urllib9
tornado8
git7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jupyterhub/repo2docker
Aug 2019 - Jan 2020
Turn repositories into Jupyter-enabled Docker images
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 22 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to the development of a new content provider for Hydroshare within the repo2docker project. This involved implementing the Hydroshare content provider class, including methods to detect, fetch, and extract Hydroshare resources. Furthermore, the user made changes to integrate the new content provider into the main application and added tests to validate the functionality. The user's work enables the conversion of Hydroshare resources into Jupyter-enabled Docker images.
repositoriesjupyter-notebookdockerjupyterlabjupyter
jupyterhub/binderhub
Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
Run your code in the cloud, with technology so advanced, it feels like magic!
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 15 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributed to adding and improving support for Hydroshare as a repository provider within BinderHub. Their work involved implementing the necessary logic to fetch and build from Hydroshare resources, including parsing resource identifiers and interacting with the Hydroshare API. They added tests for the Hydroshare provider and refined the implementation to handle both resource IDs and DOIs, including updated logic for version fetching. Additionally, the user modified the front-end to reflect the new Hydroshare integration.
jupyter-notebookmagicjupyterbinderjupyterhub
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