Steele Farnsworth is a computational linguist with eight years of experience applying natural language processing to practical problems, currently contributing at MITRE. He blends a computer science background in NLP with hands-on research in NER, relation extraction, and data augmentation from his time at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he also taught an undergraduate NLP course. Steele is an active open-source contributor and back-end developer for the widely used Python Discord community bot, demonstrating strong channel and role-management logic and a collaborative approach to refactoring. Comfortable moving models from data to production-ready code, he pairs research rigor with pragmatic engineering and enjoys translating messy, real-world data into actionable insights.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University - College of Engineering
The community bot for the Python Discord community
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:60 reviews, 66 commits, 40 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Steele primarily contributed to the `help_channels` extension, focusing on the command that closes a help channel and removes a "cooldown" role. Their commits involved refactoring the `close_command` function, moving role removal logic to a dedicated `unclaim_channel` method, and improving the logic of the channel closing process. The user also addressed issues related to claimant role removal and integration of master branch changes. They demonstrated a strong understanding of the channel management and role assignment logic within the Python Discord bot.
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