Vincent Toups
Chief Data Scientist
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVincent Toups is a Chief Data Scientist and physicist with 17 years of experience blending quantitative neuroscience, data science, and full‑stack software engineering across both mainstream and esoteric languages. He drives applied AI and public‑health analytics at UNC while maintaining a hands‑on research background from a PhD in physics/neuroscience. Comfortable from JavaScript stacks to Common Lisp and Scheme, he has a track record of shipping production systems and unique open‑source contributions—most notably audio and game-related enhancements to the cross‑platform LambdaNative Scheme framework. Vincent also builds experimental software and games (he released The Death of the Corpse Wizard, written almost entirely in Scheme), and pursues generative art, programming‑language exploration, and foundational physics in his spare time. Colleagues value his ability to translate deep technical curiosities into practical, production‑grade solutions that bridge research and implementation.
16 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at Louisiana State UniversityPhD Physics Neuroscience Data, PhD Physics Neuroscience Data at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (11)
scheme10
audio-processing10
cross-platform10
multiplatform10
entity-component-system9
pathfinding9
ec9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
part-cw/lambdanative
Mar 2016 - Oct 2016
LambdaNative is a cross-platform development environment written in Scheme, supporting Android, iOS, BlackBerry 10, OS X, Linux, Windows, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenWrt.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 10 PRs, 73 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Vincent primarily focused on enhancing the audio functionality within the LambdaNative framework. Their contributions included modifications to audio buffering code for iOS and PortAudio to support audio mixing. They also added interfaces to loop audio files and improved the loading and parsing of audio files. In addition, the user implemented a simple heap and queue implementation, and integrated a grid-based pathfinding routine and the Scran ECS framework.
ios-androiddevelopment-platformfreebsdiosscheme
VincentToups/igp
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
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