I appreciate you dropping by.

My name’s Simon. I build tools for data scientists at Posit (formerly called RStudio).

Throughout my career so far, I’ve had a deep and enduring interest in statistical software development—I think, done well, statistical software has an incredible impact on our ability to think intuitively about statistics and data science.

I worked on open source R packages for data analysis and machine for a number of years before transitioning to focusing on LLMs in late 2024. Since then, I’ve pushed the boundaries of LLM tooling for data scientists and developed a number of coding agents. My GitHub profile links out to some of the projects I spend my time with.

I’m currently based out of Chicago, IL. When I’m not working, I enjoy cooking, hanging with my dog Millie, and playing American folk music.

This site is built with Quarto, and I’ve repo-dived on Silvia Canelón, Julia Silge, and Emil Hvitfeldt’s personal websites while tweaking and troubleshooting. The site is deployed using Netlify. My blog posts are released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.