Elian Thiele-evans
Data Scientist
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolElian Thiele-evans is a Data Officer in Melbourne with six years' experience combining a psychology background and a Master of Data Science to turn human-centred insights into reproducible data workflows. He is a pragmatic R-focused developer (with some TypeScript) who contributes to the vscode-R extension, improving R workspace tooling, R Markdown previewing, and LiveShare integration for better collaborative analysis. Comfortable across full-stack extension work and analytical pipelines, he bridges user experience and technical robustness—evidenced by UI enhancements, workspace management features, and error-handling improvements in open source. Colleagues value his ability to translate behavioural science intuition into clean, maintainable code that helps teams explore and share R-based analyses.
6 years of coding experience
Victorian Certificate of Education, Victorian Certificate of Education at Melbourne Grammar SchoolMaster of Data Science, Data Science, Master of Data Science, Data Science at Swinburne University of Technology
Japanese, English
Github Skills (9)
rmarkdown10
vscode-extension10
r10
javascript8
html8
typescripts6
typescript6
cheerio6
typescript-types6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
REditorSupport/vscode-R
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
R Extension for Visual Studio Code
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:79 reviews, 37 commits, 70 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Elian primarily contributed to the development of the R extension for Visual Studio Code. They implemented and refined the R workspace viewer, including features for loading, saving, and clearing the workspace. The user also worked on adding code cells to R files and enhanced the user interface by incorporating icons into webviews. Furthermore, they integrated LiveShare functionality and made improvements to the R markdown preview feature, including error handling and styling.
visual-studio-codevscodersnippetsrmarkdown
ElianHugh/ElianHugh
Apr 2021 - May 2026
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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