Scott Chamberlain
Software Engineer at Fred Hutch
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolScott Chamberlain is a software engineer and co-founder with 15 years of experience building APIs, web apps, backend infrastructure, data pipelines, and developer tools across JavaScript (Vue.js), Python, Ruby, and R. He combines product ownership and hands-on engineering—having been the sole developer of Unsub and led data orchestration and testing tooling at Deck—while currently contributing to data science efforts at Fred Hutch. A long-time open source maintainer and community builder (co-founding rOpenSci), he has contributed significant R tooling such as enhancements to the popular plotly.R library and moved its testing into modern frameworks. His background in ecology (PhD) informs a research-first approach to reproducibility and data stewardship, and he brings uncommon breadth from clinical-scale data pipelines to developer-facing libraries and documentation.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Biology, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology, General at California State University, Chico
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Github Skills (24)
data-visualizations10
r-package10
r10
testing10
data-visualisation10
testthat10
knitr10
data-visualization10
plotly10
leaflet9
javascript9
json9
apidoc9
api9
rmarkdown9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
plotly/plotly.R
Mar 2014 - Sep 2014
An interactive graphing library for R
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 5 comments, 1 issue in 6 months
Contributions summary:Scott primarily worked on the R API for Plotly, focusing on integrating the API with the R environment. They added features like a signup function and improved documentation. Furthermore, they refactored the code for better usability and incorporated the use of knitr for interactive plotting, including embedding plotly graphs in R markdown documents. The user also moved tests into the `testthat` framework.
r-packagevisualizationsocial-network-analysishtmlwidgetswebgl
sckott/parseids
Jan 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 11 months
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