About
Hi, I'm Zach. I love learning how things works and using that knowledge to build new things. When I'm not reading about software you can find me on a disc golf course, rolling dice with a Dungeons & Dragons group, or curling.
I've used Rust since 2018, but lately I'm on the Zig train. I'm neurotic about dependencies, so I also use Nix, run NixOS on several machines, etc.
I did a physics PhD at Purdue University where I studied the details of photosynthesis using ultrafast spectroscopy. I built state of the art time resolved laser systems and did computational modeling of quantum-biological systems both on small computers (laptops) and big computers (supercomputing clusters). I also wrote all of the software currently running in the lab ranging from data acquisition and hardware control to numerical analysis.
Contact
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