Stephen North
Founder at Infovisible
New Jersey, United States
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RockstarStephen North is a founder and seasoned visualization and data-analysis engineer with 11 years in his own consultancy and decades of earlier research leadership at AT&T Labs and Bell Labs. He co-invented Graphviz and continues to maintain and improve its codebase, contributing bug fixes and new primitives that keep the project relevant across bioinformatics, security, and network operations. At AT&T he built and led R&D teams and shipped high-impact systems—from carrier-scale visualization platforms to Nanocubes and cloud R analytics—that bridged prototypes to production. Now running Infovisible from New Jersey, he consults on graph- and network-focused visualization, prototyping innovative tools and advising technical teams. He combines deep algorithmic knowledge with practical systems experience, and is active in the IEEE VIS community where he helps steer the field’s direction. An unexpected angle: he pairs hands-on low-level code fixes with strategic research leadership, so he’s as comfortable merging a branch as shaping multi-project research roadmaps.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (14)
c1710
c1110
graphviz10
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
graph6
character-encoding6
dot6
architectures6
architecture6
utf6
git5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ellson/MOTHBALLED-graphviz
Sep 2014 - Jun 2018
Moved to https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 10 pushes, 153 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily contributed to fixing bugs and merging changes within the Graphviz codebase. Their work involved addressing issues in edge comparisons, which included fixing a typo. They also made additions to the codebase, adding new features like agnodebefore() primitive. Additionally, the user merged branches from external repositories, integrating various changes into the main branch.
network-visualizationcytoscapejsgitlabgraph-drawinggraph-visualization
cscheid/rcloud-paper
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:132 commits, 69 pushes, 1 tag in 6 months
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