Tyler Makaro
Victoria, British Columbia, Australia
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Top SchoolTyler Makaro is a physics- and mathematics-trained engineer now pursuing an MSc in Computer Science, with a decade of hands-on experience spanning research, training, and technical support. He has published applied research in climate modelling and superconducting device design, and built electronics and embedded software for a telescope-calibrating high-altitude balloon project. As a back-end developer and technical writer on Jupyter's nbconvert, he improved conversion features and documentation for a widely used open-source tool. At Total Support Solutions he designed IT courses and led training while maintaining client-facing technical roles, demonstrating an ability to translate complex concepts for diverse audiences. Tyler combines rigorous academic foundations with practical software and hardware experience, and is steering his career toward quantum information sciences. Colleagues would describe him as curious, methodical, and effective at turning scientific insight into reliable code and documentation.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Msc, Computer Science, Msc, Computer Science at University of Victoria
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Github Skills (7)
pygments10
python10
jinja210
documentation10
latex9
animation6
matplotlib6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jupyter/nbconvert
Oct 2017 - Apr 2020
Jupyter Notebook Conversion
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:2 reviews, 76 commits, 46 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and documentation of the nbconvert project. Their contributions included adding features for customizing syntax highlighting using Pygments styles and adding documentation for the same. Furthermore, the user fixed bugs and refactored code to improve the clarity and stability of the codebase, and refactored various parts of the code base for better efficiency.
jupyter-notebookconversionjupyternotebook
conda-forge/animatplot-feedstock
Feb 2019 - Sep 2024
A conda-smithy repository for animatplot.
Contributions:9 PRs, 4 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 7 months
animationcondasmithy
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