Grant Jenks¶
Listen | learn | think | solve – for fun and profit.
Featured Projects¶
Grant pounds on the keyboard all day,Making tough problems go away.Alone at the computer,Beside him a flagon of pewter. [1]
Python Sorted Containers Module¶
Python Sorted Containers module is a sorted collections library, written in pure-Python, and fast as C-extensions.
Python Disk Cache Module¶
DiskCache is an Apache2 licensed disk and file backed cache library, written in pure-Python, and compatible with Django.
Python RunStats Module¶
Python runstats Module: Collect running statistics and regression in a single pass of data.
Good Shoppr¶
Good Shoppr gives you a great shopping experience and donates 5% of every purchase to our featured charity.
Python WordSegment Module¶
Python wordsegment Module: English word segmentation based on trillion word corpus.
Mission Year¶
During Mission Year from 2011-2012, my wife and I moved to South Atlanta and did civic development amongst the urban poor.
Python Tribool Data Type¶
Python tribool objects implement three-valued boolean logic where the values are True, False, and Indeterminate.
Background¶
- Entrepreneur, ‘13 – Founding partner, consultant, etc.
- Microsoft, ‘07-‘13 – From intern to Software Dev 2, worked mainly on an OS incubation project named Midori under an SVP as part of the Compiler and Runtime Infrastructure team. Developed domain expertise in C/C++/C# compiler optimizations and automatic construction and tuning of compiler heuristics.
- Mission Year, ‘11-‘12 – Working, serving, and living with the urban poor in South Atlanta. Full-time volunteer between the Georgia Justice Project and Emmaus House as part of Mission Year.
- Married, ‘09 – Happily married Shannon Jenks, the best woman for me on earth!
- UCLA, ‘04-‘08 – Graduated Magna Cum Laude with Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Engineering.
Contact¶
The best way to contact me is via the appropriate network: GitHub, LinkedIn, Facebook, Stack Overflow, Twitter, or Google+. Code, résumé, coffee, posts, or answers generally available upon request.
You may also contact me by email at contact@grantjenks.com
| [1] | Known as a “clerihew” – a whimsical, four-line biographical poem. |