Nolan Windham
I build software and systems at the intersection of data, policy, and open technology. I care about practical engineering, evidence-based decisions, and making useful information easier to access.
About Me:
- From Venice, California
- Studied Economics and Data Science at Claremont McKenna College
- Wrote my senior thesis: Fractured Simulacra: How Media Echo Chambers Shape Divergent Realities in Public Opinion
- Head of AI, Beach Point Capital Management
Past Work:
- Founding President, CA Buildspace
- Founding Data Director, Rose Institute of State and Local Government
- Software Engineering Intern, Hireflow
- Internet Archive - Open Library, Google Summer of Code 2021
- Data Assistant, Bullock for Senate
- Owner & Admin, BuildTheEarth Southwest US Minecraft Server
Projects:
- pyse: Python NES Emulator - a Python NES emulator with cycle-accurate CPU/PPU simulation, deterministic timing, and debugging/trace tooling.
- TforX - a software-and-art practice that treats film as a temporal surface, using cumulative visual frames to reveal relationships across time and perception.
- GSoC 2021: Making Books Lendable with the Open Book Genome Project - Open Library GSoC work building open source extraction and lending-scale systems.
Honors & Awards:
- ChatGPT Futures Honoree: ChatGPT 26: Students shaping the future with AI
- McKenna Scholar - Claremont McKenna College.
- Intellectual Curiosity Achievement Award - New Roads School.
