Carin Meier
Principal Software Engineer at Gigasquid Software LLC
Loveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolCarin Meier is a Principal Software Engineer with a multi-decade engineering career who blends deep hands-on craftsmanship in Clojure and ML with leadership roles across startups and enterprise teams. Currently at Nubank and as founder of Gigasquid, she designs and ships production systems while mentoring engineers and promoting continuous learning. A long-time open-source committer and PMC member of Apache MXNet, she’s contributed Clojure bindings, tests, and documentation to a major deep-learning project and implements ML models and optimizations in community repos like cortex. Her work spans backend systems, language runtimes (Pixie), game tooling (Defold), and full-stack interactive learning sites (4clojure), showing both breadth and attention to developer experience. Trained as a physicist, she combines scientific rigor with pragmatic engineering and a penchant for playful exploration—“pursuing snarks with forks”—that surfaces in thoughtful tooling and reproducible examples.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at University of Cincinnati
English
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Github Skills (32)
javascript10
lib10
clojure-test10
image-processing10
clojure-cli10
testing10
mxnet10
machine-learning10
code-completion10
clojure10
lua10
neural-network10
functional-programming10
lisp10
data-structure9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gigasquid/wonderland-clojure-katas
Dec 2014 - Dec 2022
Clojure Katas inspired by Alice in Wonderland
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 195 commits, 128 PRs in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Carin contributed to multiple katas within the Clojure Wonderland project, demonstrating skills in both backend and frontend development. Their commits include implementing doublets, a word game solver, a number-based puzzle, and a river crossing puzzle. Furthermore, they updated and adjusted existing test files and project configurations for the kata.
clojure
rosejn/cortex
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
Machine learning in Clojure
Role in this project:ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:13 commits, 10 PRs, 49 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Carin primarily contributed to the machine learning aspects of the project, focusing on example documentation, code cleanup, and enhancements to the suite-classification and MNIST examples. They addressed issues related to image shape, added features like live-updates, and bumped Clojure to version 1.9. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the RESNET50 example and implemented the Swish activation function, demonstrating a focus on model development and optimization.
clojuremachine-learning
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