I am tutoring and writing a novel full-time after finishing a PhD in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Chicago. I've been coding for 16 years and teaching for the past 10 years. My tutoring specialties are coding, application essay review, and technical interview prep. Within coding, my particular specialty is scientific programming, though I am proficient in a wide variety of languages and paradigms.

My teaching experience spans a dozen courses over the past 10 years, with students ranging from computationally-minded PhD students to theater majors forced into a math requirement. My programming experience spans the past 16 years, beginning in high school, continuing through a CS-heavy undergrad math major, and going full-time during my 7-year PhD, and continuing now with personal projects. I've used a wide variety of languages to the point that I'm confident I can help you through coding in any language you may be using. The core of most programs, the algorithm, usually transcends language, and so do the equally-important auxiliary skills like Google-fu and debugging. Fair warning: I won't design nor debug your program for you. I'll basically be a rubber ducky that asks leading and encouraging questions. In my experience it's an effective tutoring method for everyone from complete beginners through experts.

For technical interview prep we'll work from McDowell's "Cracking the Coding Interview" to make sure you know all the strategies to nail those pesky questions asked by everyone from start-ups to quant hedge funds.

I have most recent experience in Julia, Python, & Matlab. Previously I've used Mathematica, C, C++, Java, R, JavaScript*, TypeScript*, & Haskell.

Please reach out with any questions! I'm happy to tell you whether I'll be helpful on a particular project (or type of job interview). With any luck, you won't need my help for long!

*NOTE: If you're using a major TypeScript framework, you should search for someone who has expertise in the specific framework you're using.