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Hello, again

I codify contracts between systems for a living, in Rust and Python. I once spent five years chasing where the antimatter went.

Senior software engineer at PactFlow (SmartBear). I help lead the open-source Pact Foundation and maintainpact-python; I also wrote tikz-feynman,rust-skiplist, and more.

Previously: data and cloud engineering at KPMG, and doctoral research in theoretical particle physics.

The year in code

5424 commits, 842 PRs, and 277 issues across 39 repositories.

Nov 2025 — Nov 2026
Most of what I make is open. Each square below is one day of my GitHub contributions over the past year.

Latest commits

JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerfix(core): refuse an apply across a rename made after a restore15h
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerdocs(core): reflow the plan_file doc15h
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerdocs: name the sidecar watermark by the events seq column16h
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerfix(core): give events an explicit commit-ordered seq16h
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerdocs: record the apply rename refusal and the event watermark16h
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerfix(core): refuse an apply only across a rename the file touches16h

Latest issues & PRs

JP-Ellis/borrow-checker[PR · open]
feat(ui): reach account management from the sidebar, dashboard and picker14h
JP-Ellis/borrow-checker[PR · open]
feat(ui): manage accounts under Settings14h
JP-Ellis/borrow-checker[PR · open]
feat(ipc): account management commands14h
JP-Ellis/borrow-checker[PR · merged]
feat(core): edit, rename, move and unarchive accounts, with close/archive previews14h

Selected projects

pact-pythonOSS · libraryPython bindings for Pact, rebuilt over a Rust FFI core. Downloaded over 1.3 million times a month.↗ github
tikz-feynmanOSS · LaTeXA LaTeX package for typesetting Feynman diagrams with TikZ; adopted across particle physics with 400+ academic citations.↗ github
rust-skiplistOSS · libraryA skip list for Rust.↗ github
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