about

This is the personal website of James J Porter.

I live in New York and work as a facilitator at the Recurse Center.

Stuff I have done in the past, in roughly reverse-chronological order:

• worked on the National Cancer Institute Genomic Data Commons as part of the University of Chicago Center for Data Intensive Science
• interned at Stripe
• graduated from the University of Chicago in 2014
• helped organize JuliaCon 2014 (which was the first JuliaCon)
• worked on the Open Science Data Cloud my last year of school
• spent the summer of 2013 at the Recurse Center
• used to do fruit fly genetics before that