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Zac Hatfield-Dodds

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Hi there, and thanks for thinking of sponsoring me!

I'm a researcher @3ainstitute - that's Autonomy, Agency, and Assurance, at the Australian National University. I spend my time there reading, thinking, talking, and teaching about what's happening as we embed sensing, learning, communicating, and acting computers in everything else. Everyone's talking about cars, but what about medical devices? Trains? Elections?

My open-source work aims to help everyone write better software, lately by making testing easier and much more effective. I'm a core developer of Hypothesis (and some extensions) and a Pytest maintainer. On the side, I've spent 2019 trying to get the scientific stack to adopt property-based testing, with some small successes!

I often speak about testing at conferences - for example a practical intro to Property-Based testing at PyCon US and an expert deep-dive on 'Sufficiently Advanced Testing' at PyCon Australia. There's also the hands-on workshop version.

Sponsorship funding helps me to cover the costs of stickers, pins, posters, and web hosting to get the word out; as well as travel for conferences (Australia is a long way from anywhere, even New Zealand). Every bit helps - so thanks!

@Zac-HD

Knowing that there are five people out there who like my projects enough to sponsor them would mean a lot to me!

Current sponsors 1

@honno
Past sponsors 4
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@samuelcolvin
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Featured work

  1. HypothesisWorks/hypothesis

    Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use library for property-based testing.

    Python 7,599
  2. pytest-dev/pytest

    The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing

    Python 12,175
  3. python/cpython

    The Python programming language

    Python 63,737
  4. pandas-dev/pandas

    Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

    Python 43,909
  5. Zac-HD/hypothesmith

    Hypothesis strategies for generating Python programs, something like CSmith

    Python 96

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Buy me a ☕. OK, I don't actually drink coffee, but there's no hot-chocolate emoji, and I promise to enjoy one on you 😍

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I'll send you a generous package of Hypothesis stickers and pins, suitable for sharing with your friends, colleagues, and local meetups. Or driving them mad with envy as you refuse to say where this beautiful swag can be found... sadly shipping from Australia is expensive.

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1:1 time - want to chat about testing and verification research, cutting-edge tooling, and how to built it or apply it to your domain? Or someone to review your test design or implementation? Let's set up a call - if unsatisfied, I'll donate the money to the PSF or GiveWell.

(Researcher or open-source maintainer 🤩? You get a free open invite; send me an email)

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There are cheaper ways to get my attention - get in touch and we can discuss custom training, consulting options, etc. Or just throw the money at me, buy a week or two of my time, and I guess we can work out the details later 😉