Sam Buercklin
Sam is a Julia developer providing expertise at converting ideas into effective, reliable, and maintainable reality. His work spans from differentiable physics to renewable energy optimization, and he brings experience taking Julia-developed solutions into industrial-scale production.
Right now, Sam provides Julia expertise for solving problems related to renewable energy, but previously he worked as a research engineer at Metalenz and a member of technical staff at LeafLabs. He holds degrees in electrical engineering from both the University of Illinois and MIT.
Sam is the founder of G2I Computing LLC and is excited to continue solving difficult problems with scientific computing in Julia.
Session
By solving the two-language problem, Julia makes highly performant systems easier to develop. One trade-off we accept is no static language guarantees, which can yield difficulties and runtime errors in production. We explore tools and techniques to assuage these concerns. The cornerstone of our toolbox is interface-driven design, formalizing the "verbs" our types obey. We show how formalizing interfaces can simplify development, improve robustness, and help productionize Julia code.