Donny Winston

Donny is a computer systems engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He is the principal web developer for the Materials Project (materialsproject.org), and he co-maintains several codebases and services for data-driven discovery of advanced materials. MongoDB helps him support rapid collaboration and schema evolution for these services. An instructor for the Software Carpentry Foundation, he has taught workshop lessons on Python, Git, Bash, SQL, and MongoDB. In the past, he studied nano-fabrication and scanning-charged-particle-beam lithography before shifting professional focus to software-as-a-service. He likes hyphens.