Sebastian Jordan
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter Projektkoordinator
Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Summary
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RockstarSebastian Jordan is a research-driven project coordinator and scientific staff member based in Kiel, Germany, with 12 years of professional experience bridging geoscience research and software engineering. He has progressed from a doctoral researcher to roles at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources and now coordinates projects at the Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, demonstrating strengths in managing complex, interdisciplinary research initiatives. Alongside his scientific career he contributes to open-source software, notably improving test coverage and QA for the widely used Python package installer pip, showing practical expertise in back-end testing and code quality. This combination of rigorous research experience and hands-on software contribution positions him to translate technical requirements into reliable, reproducible workflows for research and applied science.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
packaging10
pip10
python10
testing10
setuptools6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pypa/pip
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
The Python package installer
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 12 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Sebastian contributed to the `pip` package installer by implementing and improving test coverage for PEP 517 package installations. They implemented a functional test for installing PEP 517 packages with the `--no-binary :all:` option. Additionally, the user made code layout improvements to existing tests and addressed code style issues through linting and refactoring. The user also improved the existing code base by improving `check_binary_allowed`.
pythonpackage-installerpippackaginginstaller
ida-arbeitszeit/arbeitszeitapp-deployment
May 2022 - Jul 2023
Deployment configuration for arbeitszeitapp @ IDA
Contributions:64 PRs, 42 pushes, 59 branches in 1 year 2 months
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