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I’m Ian Ross, I live in Igls in Austria with my partner Rita and our beagle mix Winnie.

I’m a freelance programmer and data analyst who started out as a physicist. I’ve worked in programming-centred jobs for about 20 years, in fields as diverse as climate model development, programming language tools, and sonar (naval and scientific). I’ve also spent a lot of time thinking about effective scientific data visualisation: there is a portfolio of selected images here.

I’m available for consulting work in scientific or functional programming, or data analysis work. I’m always looking for interesting projects. Take a look at my CV, take a look at my blog, and to talk about what we might do.

Things I’ve been paid money for

Using:

Haskell, JavaScript, C, C++, R, Java, Fortran (77 & 95), Lisp (Scheme, AUTOLisp, proprietary dialects), APL, SQL, Mathematica, Matlab, ArcGIS, Perl, NCL, PHP, MPI, Trilinos, SNMP, X, Motif, Povray, Tcl/Tk

to do:

Web apps
Climate & vegetation modelling
Data visualisation
Applied dynamical systems
Parallel programming
Machine learning & dimensionality reduction
Statistical modelling
Scientific data analysis
Naval sonar performance analysis
Scientific sonar data analysis and interfacing
Distributed applications & low-level network programming
GUI programming
Programming language tools
Atmospheric radiative transfer

Other things I know about

Functional programming (especially Haskell)
Other LISPs (Common Lisp, Clojure)
Web programming (mostly in Haskell with Yesod; JavaScript)
Metalworking & workshop engineering
Mechanical design (AutoCAD)
Forth, some DSP assembler

All the grubby details

I have a sort of programming bio here.