Afshin Darian
Technical Director at Project Jupyter
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAfshin Darian is a Technical Director based in London with 14 years of experience, currently leading engineering at QuantStack and serving on the Project Jupyter Executive Council. He combines full‑stack software craftsmanship with open‑source stewardship, contributing significant front-end refactors (removing jQuery/Bootstrap and improving keyboard navigation in ipywidgets) as well as kernel and server work across jupyter_server and ipykernel. Analytical and persuasive, he has driven debugging, UX and server-side improvements that restore and modernize core Jupyter functionality. His unusual academic background—a Master's in History and a BA in Philosophy—informs a focus on clear documentation, governance and long-term maintainability alongside hands-on architecture.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, HISTORY, Master's degree, HISTORY at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Philosophy, Bachelor's degree, Philosophy at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick
Github Skills (58)
api-doc10
debugging10
debug10
typescript310
javascript10
ui-d10
python10
jupyter10
testing10
css10
tornado10
typescript10
ipython10
typescript210
ui-design10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jupyterlab/jupyterlab
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
JupyterLab computational environment.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:226 reviews, 3702 commits, 1132 PRs in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Afshin primarily worked on improving the JupyterLab interface for debugging. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to the session and kernel handling, and restoring existing functionalities such as the context menu and source file browsing. The user was responsible for adding enhancements like the display of the debugger title, and enhancing the styling. This involved creating new UI components, implementing new features, and ensuring that the functionality worked across the different components and types of the JupyterLab interface.
jupyterlab-extensionjupyterlabjupyter-widgetjupytercomputational
jupyter/jupyter.github.io
Dec 2018 - Nov 2022
Project Jupyter's home on the World Wide Web
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 21 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Afshin primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and content of the Jupyter website. Their contributions included modifying the appearance of the partner logos, adding and updating content related to JupyterLab, including installation and documentation links, and adding content around distinguished contributors. They also addressed minor layout issues such as fixing horizontal scrollbars.
jupyter-notebookrubyjupyterlabjupyterjekyll
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