A. T. Darian
A. T. Darian is a technical director at QuantStack and a member of the Jupyter Executive Council. As an open source developer, Darian is a co-creator of JupyterLab and a contributor to several other projects in the ecosystem.
Prior to joining QuantStack, Darian worked on open-source software at Two Sigma, Anaconda, Alfresco, and OpenGamma. He holds an MA in history (Medieval Europe) from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA in philosophy and in medieval studies from Rutgers University.
Session
An instructor has JupyterLite, an institutional LMS, and no grading server. Can
a notebook assignment still move through authoring, distribution, submission,
automated grading, review, and collection?
This talk presents a serverless architecture where the .ipynb file is the
durable assessment artifact. Rubrics, lifecycle state, scores, and integrity
checks live in notebook metadata; sensitive state is encrypted. The Jupyter
frontend orchestrates work with commands, cold async generators, bounded kernel
leases, and browser cryptography.
A live SQL-kernel demo will show a database assignment graded by comparing
structured Jupyter outputs, then reviewed, certified, and collected through an
LMS boundary. The point is architectural: what can safely move into the
notebook and browser, and what still needs an external authority?