Will Kimmerer
Research Software Engineer at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolWill Kimmerer is a research software engineer with eight years of experience focused on reproducible builds and scientific software infrastructure, currently working at MIT CSAIL and affiliated with the JuliaLab. He contributes to BinaryBuilder.jl’s Yggdrasil repo, adding and maintaining cross-platform builders for libraries like GraphBLAS and Clingo—work that keeps complex native dependencies accessible to Julia users. Based in Lexington, Kentucky, he blends a mechanical engineering and computer science background with practical backend development skills to tackle build systems and platform compatibility. Colleagues know him for meticulous build scripts, pragmatic bug fixes, and a knack for wrangling platform-specific packaging issues that often go unseen. His GitHub bio’s dry humor—“Very Sparsely Thinking”—hints at a thoughtful, low-noise approach to open-source collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
Sayre SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, Freshman, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, Freshman at University of Kentucky
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Collection of builder repositories for BinaryBuilder.jl
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 51 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to the development of builders for the BinaryBuilder.jl project, a system for creating binary packages. Their work involved adding support for new libraries, such as GraphBLAS, Clingo, Libksba, nPth, and Libassuan, as well as updating existing ones. The user also made several bug fixes and version bumps to existing builders. These contributions focused on build scripts and configurations for different platforms.
repositoriesbinarybuildermonorepobuilderjulia
JuliaSparse/SuiteSparseGraphBLAS.jl
Jun 2021 - Nov 2022
Sparse, General Linear Algebra for Graphs!
Contributions:3 releases, 6 reviews, 426 commits in 1 year 5 months
linear-algebrajuliagraphsgraph-analyticsgraphblas
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