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Jason Grout

I am an open-source Jupyter developer and community leader and a staff software engineer at Databricks.

After wrapping up a few projects, I will be leaving Databricks in June 2025. I am looking for new opportunities that involve collaborating on open-source Jupyter software and standards while building systems on top of Jupyter, particularly where I can continue to serve in leadership roles in the Jupyter community. If you know of such an opportunity, please reach out to me at (enable JavaScript).

At Databricks, I primarily worked on Databricks features built on Jupyter, such as Python code execution, editor features like syntax error highlighting, ipywidgets support, and Jupyter notebook import/export. In the last year, I was also the technical lead for a team of 5 engineers.

In Jupyter, I currently serve in leadership positions. I have also worked primarily on JupyterLab and the interactive Jupyter Widgets system.

I currently serve on:

Previously, I was a senior software engineer at Bloomberg (2014-2021), an assistant professor of mathematics at Drake University (2009-2014), served on the Jupyter Steering Council (2015-2022), and contributed to the open-source SageMath software system for many years.

My email address is (enable JavaScript). My Github account jasongrout records most of my current open-source work. Opinions expressed here are my own.

  • Resume.pdf is my one-page resume (as of 2025).
  • Conferences lists conference talks I’ve given.
  • Scholarship lists papers and other publications.
  • Teaching lists math courses I’ve taught over the years.