Jack Rusher
Partner at Applied Science Studios
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarJack Rusher is a seasoned computer scientist and systems architect whose career bridges kernel-level engineering, database and storage internals, and high-level AI and semantic-web work across research labs and startups. He has built foundational systems — from the first purpose-built triplestore and two from-scratch databases to a self-healing distributed cluster filesystem, large-scale NLP pipelines, and award-winning real-time analytics platforms — and has contributed to open source since 1985. As a technical founder and chief scientist he has led platform architecture, guided productization in telco and enterprise settings, and helped secure patents on core technologies. Comfortable at the metal in C and various Lisps and increasingly productive in Clojure(Script), he blends deep applied-math rigor with practical engineering for resilient, high-performance systems. Now based in Berlin, he pairs Bell Labs/AT&T research pedigree with an artist-technologist sensibility at Applied Science Studios. He holds work authorization across the EU, UK, and USA and is known for turning complex infrastructure problems into pragmatic, deployable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
French, Spanish, Irish, Latin, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
notebook10
vega10
cider10
mapdb10
quil10
rocks10
java-bytecode10
plot10
emacs-lisp10
clojure10
emacs10
dsl10
development-environment10
sparql10
visualization10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
applied-science/emacs-vega-view
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
A mode to facilitate interactive data visualization using Vega from within emacs
Contributions:40 commits, 8 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year
emacsvisualizationdata-visualizationvega
jackrusher/mundaneum
Dec 2016 - Oct 2022
A clojure wrapper around WikiData
Contributions:78 commits, 8 PRs, 60 pushes in 5 years 11 months
dslwikidatasparqlclojure-wrapperclojure
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