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 Spectrum Emulator - a Python ZX Spectrum emulator for the classic 48K machine, with Z80 CPU emulation, ULA timing and display generation, CRT-style rendering, keyboard input, and support for ROM, snapshot, and screen files.
- TforX - a software art project with Jasper Eliot that uses custom slit-scan processing to turn film into chronoscapes, making each frame a narrow view across the full timeline of a video.
- 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.