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Ivan Ogasawara
Founder · Research software engineer
Ivan is SciStitch’s founder and OSL’s founder and executive director. A research software engineer, he is the author of Makim and Sugar.
Professional Network
Independent expertise.
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Researchers, statisticians, software engineers, and specialists connected by a commitment to meaningful scientific and societal work.
Active members contribute to current initiatives or coordination. The wider network stays connected for relevant opportunities. Independent collaborators are not SciStitch employees.
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Active Members
People currently contributing to SciStitch initiatives or their coordination. This reflects present engagement, not a permanent ranking.
02 / Connected expertise
Professional Network
Independent collaborators who share our mission and may join future challenges or engagements according to their skills and availability.
Anavelyz Perez
Statistician · Data analysis & modeling
Anavelyz holds a degree in statistics and is passionate about data analysis and statistical modeling. She brings curiosity and an analytical approach to complex problems, and enjoys sharing her knowledge with people eager to learn about statistics.
Aniket Kumar
Software engineer · Open-source contributor
Aniket builds developer tooling, compiler and AST extensions, and applied machine learning systems. A long-time core contributor and mentor at HiPerHealth and a Google Summer of Code mentor, he contributes to projects including Rust-based parsers for VS Code extensions and AST implementations in astx. His work also spans published research in computer vision, biometric security, and ensemble predictive modeling, plus technical writing on LLM fine-tuning, JAX/Flax, and developer workflows.
John Ever Vino Durán
Full-stack software developer · Environmental engineer
John is a full-stack software developer with over three years of experience building and deploying production systems with Python, Django, and JavaScript. His work spans data analysis, web scraping, and machine learning, including fine-tuning models for legal text classification. An environmental engineer with a background in bioprocess and mathematical modeling, he is also an active open-source mentor and project coordinator.
Luã Vacaro
Full-stack developer · Data scientist
Ricky Sambo Macharm
Data scientist & AI/ML engineer
Ricky brings experience in AI, data engineering, and international development across Africa and Europe. His work spans public health, data pipelines, and technical education. He contributes to Masakhane’s open-source research on African languages and holds a master’s degree in financial engineering.
Sai Sanjay Kottakota
Software development engineer · Cloud-native open-source contributor
Sai is a Software Development Engineer 1 at Murf AI and a cloud-native open-source contributor. He is an LFX 2026 mentee working on CNCF kube-burner, a GSoC 2025 contributor, and a GSoC 2026 mentor at Open Science Labs. His interests include performance engineering, Kubernetes systems, developer tooling, and Wayland-based remote desktop protocols.
Sandro Loch
Web developer · Open-source contributor
Sandro is a web developer and open-source contributor with experience in Python, Django, Docker, and Conda. He brings that background to SciStitch’s network as an independent collaborator.
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