About

About me

Hi, I’m Jack. 👋

I currently work as an independent contractor, largely focused on the development of the Rust programming language. Generally, I focus heavily on the design and implemenation of the type system, and on Project governance. I currently co-lead the types team, am a compiler team maintainer, co-lead the vision doc work, and am a Project Director on the Rust Foundation Board.

I previously finished my Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences in July 2025. My thesis work was on studying the role of the Grainyhead-like family in the mouse thymus. But, I am broadly interested in the system-level gene regulation through epigenetic and chromatin dynamics. I also have spent considerable time thinking about (biological) data processing, visulaization, and accesibility.

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