zkamvar, 7 months ago

You want to hire me because I understand that #FOSS is not just code, it's also community.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, I worked to completely redesign @thecarpentries lesson infrastructure from the ground up to make it easier to use for our volunteer community of Maintainers and Instructors. This resulted in The #CarpentriesWorkbench: https://carpentries.github.io/workbench

Here's what the community has had to say: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/08/celebrating-carpentries-workbench/

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zkamvar, 7 months ago

You want to hire me because I know how to communicate to a broad audience and I can teach you, too

In 2012, I co-founded an award-winning radio program with Joey Hulbert whose mission was to bring diverse graduate researcher stories to a broad audience. Until my graduation in 2016, I co-hosted over 100 interviews with graduate researchers, where we would coach them to tell their stories in a unique and engaging way.

And you know what? That program is still going: https://blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspiration/

zkamvar, 7 months ago

You want to hire me because I build software that will last.

In 2013 I released the first version of the #RStats package {poppr}, for population genetic analysis of clonal organisms. Before I wrote {poppr}, a researcher would need to use ~10 different stand-alone programs (each with their own format) to get a basic summary table of diversity statistics.

To this day it has >1800 citations (https://peerj.com/articles/281/)