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Sawyer Pollard
Western Mass

Email: mail(at)sawyerpollard.com
GPG key: 50CB 5CF6 65BB 30B0 4209 8FEB D70C 1462 0038 8DAE
URI: sawyerpollard.com
Call sign: KD2WZH


[welcome]

I'm excited that you've stumbled across this web page.
Please email me questions, comments, advice, art, ideas, facts, etc. (or to say hello)


[general interests]

guitar, music, photography, hiking, coffee, beer, security, maps, GIS, the environment, tiny houses, ham radio, brewing, physics, math, philosophy, graphic design, electronics, soldering, birds, camping, Linux, servers, knots, boats, stars, socialism, wikis, peer-to-peer, the internet, flip phones


[music interests]

Wilco, Courtney Barnett, Bill Evans, C418, Jim Hall, Pavement, Yusef Lateef, Nick Drake, Jeff Mangum, Townes Van Zandt, Elliott Smith, and many others (ask me!)


[general achievements]

Soon to graduate from Amherst College with a degree in physics and computer science

More to come ...


[computer achievements]

Added LaTeX support (github.com/zotero/note-editor/pull/36) to Zotero

Upgraded the build system (github.com/zotero/note-editor/pull/37) for the Zotero note editor

Built the popular MineWeather (github.com/sawyerpollard/MineWeather) Chrome Extension

Built Crossy (github.com/sawyerpollard/Crossy), a modern crossword client for the web

Creator of The Amherst Student (amherststudent.com) website, built from scratch with Mica (github.com/sawyerpollard/Mica)

Building a new comment system for the whole internet called  Blackbox (blackbox.saw.dog) (made with Go, Fiber, TypeScript, React, Postgres)

And more!


[work experience]

Software engineering intern at Zotero

Experimental AMO physics researcher in the Hanneke Ion Trap Lab

Research intern at IBM on the Watson Assistant team

And more!


[links]

GitHub: github.com/sawyerpollard
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/sawyerpollard