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Andrew's personal website and blog
This is the personal website and occasional blog of Andrew Collette. I am a senior software developer, technical manager, former startup founder, and recovering academic. I earned my Ph.D. in Physics in 2010 at UCLA, and worked as a research scientist at the University of Colorado for about five years, before moving into the software industry.
Since 2014, I have worked professionally in the software industry, beginning by founding a startup company called Heliosphere Research LLC. Our flagship product was a visualization tool for National Instruments' LabVIEW programming system, called the Advanced Plotting Toolkit. This lives on as an open-source product.
Most recently I served as a Vice President of Product Engineering at Enthought, where I led a startup-style project to build a new scientific analysis platform called Enthought Edge.
Other interests include a long-running open-source project for accessing scientific data, as well as an O'Reilly book on using Python to manage large scientific datasets. I feel privileged to have had such an interesting and varied career in software and science. If you're interested in learning more about some of the projects I've been involved in, you can view my resume here or reach out to me by email at andrew.collette@gmail.com.
Above: a screenshot from the Advanced Plotting Toolkit, my former startup's product. Click the image for more info.
