NPPS Leadership Team

[Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>]

Interesting opportunity from Anze for 20% level software infrastructure role on a cool new project. Comments, ideas appreciated.

  Torre

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From: Anže Slosar <anze AT bnl.gov>
Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 7:52 AM
Subject: Re: coder
To: Torre Wenaus <wenaus AT gmail.com>

Hi Torre,

> I heard about that, very cool! Congrats! From our mattermost...

Great, I missed that, but thanks!

> It would be great to identify an NPPS person to help you out. Would the .2 FTE be fairly steady state? When would it start?

I would start fairly soon, we have PD money that I can start spending on
this. How long it would go depends on i) whether and when we actually
get funding and ii) if it actually works. I have never quite worked in
this mode and to me is a bit of an experiment. If it works, it could be
for 5 years, perhaps increasing fraction perhaps decreasing it. The
advantage is that I can start paying immediately (I think, need to
check with the accountant). The disadvantage is that I can stop paying
immediately as well... :)

Let me know,

        Anže


>
>   Torre
>
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 7:55 AM Anže Slosar <anze AT bnl.gov> wrote:
>
>  Hi Torre,
>
>  Hope life is good. We recently nabbed lead lab for LuSEE at night, a
>  mission with NASA to land a small radio receiver on the far side of the
>  moon. This is all still under wraps because we are waiting for final
>  confirmation from congress re availability of funding, but the working
>  assumption is that we are moving forward.
>
>  So, I'm looking at renting some fraction of a coder from you. Basically,
>  the model I'm looking for is for a professional software person to go
>  and clean up after shoddy physicists for a lack of better
>  _expression_. For example, we'll write some code and some unit test, but I
>  want someone to convert those unit test to nice github actions that self
>  executes on merge, fix documentation, make code conda/pip installable,
>  do code-reviews, etc and the like. I'm also looking for a fraction of a
>  person, say 0.2 FTE.
>
>  Do you have a competent body for me?
>
>          Anže

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