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Tarrosion

1,097 karmajoined vor 14 Jahren
I'm enthusiastic about sourdough pizza, cities, biosecurity, space exploration, energy, global development, bikes, and desserts.

By day I'm an engineering manager and research scientist at SecureBio. Drop me a line: evan@<company>.org

Previously I was the VP of data science and engineering at Zoba, a startup building optimization software and analytics for micromobility and on-demand delivery.

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Tarrosion
·vor 4 Tagen·discuss
SecureBio Detection | Senior infrastructure engineer; [senior] software engineer (high-performance pipelines) Cambridge, MA, USA (metro Boston) | ONSITE strongly preferred; REMOTE (US east coast) possible for exceptional candidates

SecureBio is a nonprofit working to protect the world from catastrophic pandemics. We operate the world’s largest metagenomic biosurveillance network, which performs daily sequencing of wastewater samples and nasal swabs to screen for emerging pathogens. Our computational team develops detection pipelines responsible for rapid processing of deep sequencing data in order to flag potential threats.

I'm the hiring manager for two roles:

- Senior infrastructure engineer, to own cloud infra, devops, CI/CD, AWS security, etc. https://securebio.org/careers/2026-cloud-infra-engineer/

- [Senior] software engineer focused on high performance data pipelines. https://securebio.org/careers/2026-software-engineer-pipelin...

Prior experience with biology or bioinformatics is not required. If you're interested, please apply via the relevant job posting. Feel free to drop me a line with questions; email is in my profile.

https://securebio.org/careers/
Tarrosion
·letzten Monat·discuss
SecureBio Detection | Senior infrastructure engineer; [senior] software engineer (high-performance pipelines)

Cambridge, MA, USA (metro Boston) | ONSITE strongly preferred; REMOTE (US east coast) possible for exceptional candidates

SecureBio is a nonprofit working to protect the world from catastrophic pandemics. We operate the world’s largest metagenomic biosurveillance network, which performs daily sequencing of wastewater samples and nasal swabs to screen for emerging pathogens. Our computational team develops detection pipelines responsible for rapid processing of deep sequencing data in order to flag potential threats.

I'm the hiring manager for two roles:

- Senior infrastructure engineer, to own cloud infra, devops, CI/CD, AWS security, etc. https://securebio.org/careers/2026-cloud-infra-engineer/

- [Senior] software engineer focused on high performance data pipelines. https://securebio.org/careers/2026-software-engineer-pipelin...

Prior experience with biology or bioinformatics is not required. If you're interested, please apply via the relevant job posting. Feel free to drop me a line with questions; email is in my profile.

https://securebio.org/careers/
Tarrosion
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
I'm curious to see how Claude can interact with Blender, and how people use it. I use Claude every day for both work and personal research, overall think it's a great product, but I've found it (thus far, never bet against generation n+1) remarkably terrible at spatial reasoning. That seems pretty key for Blender!
Tarrosion
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
This author is really prolific in the Julia visualization ecosystem. One of my favorite projects from them is actually quite useful outside Julia: a super minimal but slick Unicode character lookup, glyphy.info.
Tarrosion
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
[citation needed] that some combination of "New Urbanism, traditional neighbourhood design, streetcar suburbs, one-way streets, bike paths, walking paths, mixed-zone walkable villages (light commercial with residential), smaller single-family houses and duplexes, triplexes, houses behind houses." is not in fact optimal! (For certain objective functions)
Tarrosion
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
sparsely updated blog: https://evanfields.net
Tarrosion
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
> Is multi-agent collaboration actually useful or am I just solving my own niche problem?

I often write with Claude, and at work we have Gemini code reviews on GitHub; definitely these two catch different things. I'd be excited to have them working together in parallel in a nice interface.

If our ops team gives this a thumbs-up security wise I'll be excited to try it out when back at work.
Tarrosion
·vor 11 Jahren·discuss
I'm a PhD student in operations research interesting in working for a company addressing a global problem via an approach with low probability of success but high expected value. Think Helion, Ambri, Firefly (the rockets), Planetary Resources, Immunity Project, etc. The thought being any one of these companies will likely fail, but if 5% of them succeed, that's hugely beneficial for society.

What advice can you give?