About
I am passionate about open source software. After graduate school, I learned that I love architecting and building innovative tools that empower numerical computing of all kinds. So far in my career, I've had the opportunity to perform a wide variety of work including cloud/on-prem platform engineering, package/environment management, distributed computing, and backend web development.
I developed, architected, and am currently the tech lead for two of Quansight's major open source projects: Nebari and Conda-Store.
I have worked extensively in packaging within the Conda and Nixpkgs communities and developed data science platforms that run on all major clouds and dedicated on-prem infrastructure. I have developed software for a wide range of businesses from small stealth startups to large financial firms, government contracts, and universities.
For more information, download my resume 📄.
Education 🎓
University of Tennessee, Knoxville:
- A.B.D. in Computational Materials Science and Engineering
- M.S. in Computational Materials Science and Engineering
Clemson University:
- B.S. in Applied Mathematics
- Minor in Computer Science
- Minor in Materials Science
Publications 📃 (160+ Citations)
- Ostrouchov C., Zhang Y., Weber W., pysrim: Automation, Analysis, and Plotting of SRIM Calculations, Journal of Open Source Software, June 2018 doi:10.21105/joss.00829
- Zhang Y., Xue H., Zarkadoula E., Sachan R., Ostrouchov C., Liu P., Wang X., Zhang S., Wang T., Weber W., Coupled electronic and atomic effects on defect evolution in silicon carbide under ion irradiation, Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science, October 2017, doi:10.1016/j.cossms.2017.09.003
- Zhang Y., Aidhy D., Varga T., Moll S., Edmondson P, Namavar P., Jin K., Ostrouchov C., Weber W., The effect of electronic energy loss on irradiation-induced grain growth in nanocrystalline oxides, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 16, pg. 8051-8059, Feb. 2014, doi:10.1039/C4CP00392F
- Jones, A., Ostrouchov, C., Harancyzk, M., Iglesia, E., From Rays to Structures: Void Structure Representations from Stochastic Calculations, Elsevier, Vol. 181, pg. 208-216, Nov. 2013, doi:10.1016/j.micromeso.2013.07.003
- Ostrouchov, C., Richardson, K., A Combined Numerical and Experimental Approach to Measuring Gap Conductance for Precision Glass Molding, Journal of Undergraduate Materials Science, Oct. 2011
Awards 🏆
- Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching
University of Tennessee (Spring 2017) - Chancellor's Fellowship
University of Tennessee College of Engineering (2015 - 2017) - Joint Institute for Advanced Materials & Manufacturing (JIAM) Fellowship
University of Tennessee (2013 - 2016) - President's List
Clemson University College of Engineering & Sciences (2009, 2010) - Dean's List of Distinguished Students
Clemson University (2009, 2010)
Leadership 🧭
- President, Materials Research Society
University of Tennessee (Fall 2016 - Fall 2017) - Secretary, Materials Research Society
University of Tennessee (2014 - 2015) - Vice President, Keramos Engineering Honors Society
Clemson University (2011 - 2012) - Vice President, Materials Advantage Society
Clemson University (2010 - 2011)
Tutorials 👨🏫
- Data of an Unusual Size: A practical guide to analysis and interactive visualization of massive datasets
SciPy, July 2023 - Contributing to Open Source
KnoxPy, June 2018
Presentations 🗣️
- Serving and Managing Reproducible HPC Environments via Conda-Store
HPC Society, February 2022 - Serving and Managing Reproducible Conda Environments via Conda-Store
Packaging Con, November 2021 - Serving and Managing Reproducible Conda Environments via Conda-Store
PyData Global, October 2021 - "Serving and Managing Reproducible Conda Environments via Conda-Store"
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), October 2021 - Serving and Managing Reproducible Conda Environments via Conda-Store
PyData DC, September 2021 - Terraforming Jupyter and Dask: How to Get Your Own Cloud Data Science Platform on the Cheap
Hashicorp Talks, February 2021 - "Quansight: QHub Demonstration"
PyData Global, November 2020 - Introducing QHub: How to Get Your Own Cloud Data Science Platform on the Cheap,
JupyterCon, October 2020 - python-api-inspect
SciPy: Austin, Texas, June 2019 - The golden python packaging template
knoxpy: Knoxville, Tennessee, June 2018 - Machine learning opportunities in materials science
Joint Institute for Advanced Materials: Knoxville, Tennessee, May 2018 - celery: Tool for managing distributed task queues
knoxpy: Knoxville, Tennessee, August 2017 - DFTFIT: Potential Generation for Molecular Dynamics Calculations
Materials Research Society: Boston, Massachusetts, November 2016 - Introduction to celery
KnoxPy: Knoxville, Tennessee, September 2016 - DFTFIT: Potential Generation for Molecular Dynamics Calculations
American Ceramics Society HTCMC: Toronto, Canada, July 2016 - "Creation of MD Potentials from Ab Initio Calculations"
Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Monthly Energy Dissipation to Defect Evolution (EDDE) Meeting, November 2015 - "A Combined Numerical and Experimental Approach to Measuring Gap Conductance for Precision Glass Molding"
Materials Science and Technology Journal of Undergraduate Research Symposium: Columbus, OH, October 2011
Posters 📊
- "DFTFIT: Potential Generation for Molecular Dynamics Calculations"
American Society for Metals Student Poster Night: Knoxville, TN (November 2015) - "Tools for Geometry Based Analysis of Crystalline Porous Materials"
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL): Berkeley, CA (August 2012) - "A Combined Numerical and Experimental Approach to Measuring Gap Conductance for Precision Glass Molding"
Clemson University Creative Inquiry Poster Session: Clemson, SC (May 2011)