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Hello, again

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

Senior software engineer at PactFlow (SmartBear). Open source contributor to pact-python,tikz-feynman, rust-skiplist, and more.

Previously: data and cloud engineering at KPMG, and a PhD in theoretical particle physics.

The year in code

3842 commits, 531 PRs, and 197 issues across 36 repositories.

Sep 2025 — Sep 2026
Most of what I make is open. The grid below is the truthful version of a résumé — public, dated, and dense in the parts where I was paying attention.

Latest commits

JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerrefactor(beancount): parse budget amounts via number1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerdocs: list Daily among the budget periods1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerfeat(bc-cli): accept --frequency daily on a loan1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkertest(bc-core): pin daily rollover across days1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerfix(bc-ipc): keep a one-day Custom period out of Daily1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkertest(beancount): cover the evaluator's overflow branches1d

Latest issues & PRs

JP-Ellis/borrow-checker[issue · open]
bc_ipc::Period cannot represent a Custom period1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checker[issue · open]
Budget rollover walks one period per query back to the first revision1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checker[PR · merged]
feat(beancount): parse and expose Fava budgets1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checker[PR · merged]
feat: add Period::Daily1d
Selected projects
pact-pythonOSS · libraryPython bindings for Pact, rebuilt over a Rust FFI core. The version most pact-python users actually reach for.↗ github
tikz-feynmanOSS · LaTeXA LaTeX package for typesetting Feynman diagrams with TikZ; adopted across particle physics with 400+ academic citations.↗ github
rust-skiplistOSS · librarySkiplist data structure implementation in Rust.↗ github
↗ All projects