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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

4760 commits, 742 PRs, and 274 issues across 35 repositories.

Oct 2025 — Oct 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-checkertest(e2e): allow only the named failed RPC calls on live-fetch QA routes1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkertest(e2e): fail a layout exemption whose check no longer fires1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkertest(e2e): structural layout checks on every QA route1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerfix(qa): fit the fundamentals and balance-cell QA pages at phone width1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerfix(ui): let the budget form inputs shrink at phone width1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checkerfix(ui): fit the metadata editor's value column at phone width1d

Latest issues & PRs

JP-Ellis/borrow-checker[PR · open]
feat(ui): delete and reverse from the register detail1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checker[PR · open]
feat(ipc,cli): delete, provenance and rejected-row commands1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checker[PR · open]
feat(core): delete a transaction, keeping or forgetting its import provenance1d
JP-Ellis/borrow-checker[PR · open]
test(e2e): GUI import and discard flow1d

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
↗ All projects