Ethan Kim

University of California, Berkeley (Data Science with focus on applied modeling)

GitHub

September 2025 to March 2026 (still active)

Contributions

  • A Student’s Experience with FastOpp Country Store Parts 2-4, Dec 2, 2025
    • Needed to make pull request to open source repo
    • Use of data models, ORM, SQL database as well as frontend with HTML, Tailwind
  • UC Berkeley Student’s Process for Testing and Contributing to FastOpp, Oct 8, 2025
    • LLM testing using OpenRouter API and open source Python framework for chat
  • Reported that on WSL, Ruff may require additional libraries
    • It can be tricky to set up the Python toolchain with linter, syntax, formatter. Ethan got this working for us.
  • Developed Church Transportation Web site based on FastOpp from this course — currently in progress
    • Used scientific publishing system called Quarto for blog, pull request and revision workflow
    • Application showed use of live production site in Docker container running on compute service with cloud-based PostgreSQL

Skills Demonstrated

  • Pull requests to open source repos
  • Data models, ORM, SQL databases
  • Frontend development (HTML, Tailwind)
  • LLM testing with OpenRouter API
  • Python toolchain setup (Ruff, linter, formatter)
  • Quarto publishing workflow
  • Docker and cloud deployment (PostgreSQL)