Spencer Park
Senior Software Development Engineer at Esri
Redlands, California, United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Park is a Senior Software Development Engineer with a decade of experience building developer tooling and interactive computing platforms, currently based in Redlands, CA and working at Esri. He blends backend systems expertise with practical language-kernel work—contributing to Jupyter kernels for Java and Go where he improved error handling, messaging, streaming, and dependency magics to streamline developer workflows. His background includes research and teaching roles at McMaster University, where he built Haskell-based web frontends and embedded verification tools in Jupyter, reflecting a strong mix of PL/compiler knowledge and full-stack implementation. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript/React, Haskell, Java and Go, he combines academic rigor with production-focused engineering and a knack for turning research prototypes into robust developer experiences.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering at McMaster University
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zeromq10
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java10
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javas10
go10
golang10
jupyter-notebook10
apidoc9
typescript9
api9
error-handling9
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
SpencerPark/IJava
Sep 2017 - Sep 2020
A Jupyter kernel for executing Java code.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 90 commits, 7 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily contributed to improving the ijava kernel's functionality and error handling. Their work involved refining error messages within the Java code, cleaning up code, and fixing off-by-one errors. They also implemented support for specifying VM and compiler arguments, along with introducing magics support, including the incorporation of maven dependency management, to streamline the user's development workflow.
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gopherdata/gophernotes
Aug 2017 - Aug 2018
The Go kernel for Jupyter notebooks and nteract.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 16 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Spencer primarily focused on improving the Go kernel for Jupyter notebooks by updating the messages to the 5.0 specification. They refactored and cleaned up the messages interface and added versioning and timestamp information to the messages. Additionally, they incorporated features such as the implementation of stdout/stderr streaming and implemented the inclusion of error handling related to panics.
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