Sinclair Target
Engineering Manager at Chartbeat
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSinclair Target is an Engineering Manager in Cambridge, MA with 11 years building big data systems, data engineering pipelines, and web applications, now leading teams at Chartbeat. He blends hands-on engineering and people leadership, having progressed from senior engineer roles and research software engineering at the MIT Media Lab to management. Sinclair contributes to practical open-source tooling—authoring a man-page manager that converts markdown to roff and improves CLI ergonomics—reflecting a focus on developer experience and durable documentation. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Columbia and an MS in Computational Analysis and Public Policy, a mix that informs pragmatic, data-driven product decisions. A blogger and computer-history enthusiast, he brings curiosity and a historian’s attention to design trade-offs and system longevity.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computational Analysis and Public Policy, Master of Science - MS Computational Analysis and Public Policy at Harris School of Public Policy at the University of ChicagoBrown UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at Columbia University
Github Skills (14)
command-line10
cli10
markdown10
manpage10
command-line-interface10
markdown-it10
kramdown10
text-processing10
ruby10
scripting9
shell9
script9
configuration-management9
sh9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sinclairtarget/um
Dec 2015 - Nov 2019
Create and maintain your own man pages so you can remember how to do stuff
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:113 commits, 9 PRs, 48 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sinclair was instrumental in building and refining a command-line utility for managing man pages. They implemented core features such as reading, listing, and setting topics for pages. The user also incorporated configuration sourcing, markdown-to-roff conversion, and command-line flag support to enhance the utility's functionality and usability. Further contributions include improving error handling and overall code organization.
man-pagesto-do
sinclairtarget/git-who
Dec 2024 - Mar 2025
Git blame for file trees
Contributions:5 releases, 4 PRs, 81 pushes in 3 months
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