Hi! My name is Rae Knowler.
I'm a web developer, coding in Python, PHP and (sometimes) JavaScript. I live in Zürich, Switzerland, and work at Liip. Originally I studied materials science, and have worked at Owlstone Nanotech and ETH Zürich, but I've made the switch to programming and I'm happy with it.
I am nonbinary gendered and use they/them pronouns.
I'm enthusiastic about Open Data, Open Access publishing, and promoting diversity in tech. I also love science fiction and like to knit. My partner, David Stark, and I have two cats, Sinister and Dexter.
Projects
- Trans*Code Switzerland: Switzerland's first series of hack events focussing on the trans and nonbinary community (first event December 2016, next upcoming!)
- VSJF-Refugees Migration 1898-1975 in Switzerland: an interactive visualisation of the movements of 20th-century Jewish refugees
- Graphing the Stateless People in Carl Durkheim's Photographs: a small investigation into police photographs of 19th-century 'stateless' travellers in Switzerland
- Crowdpee: a Twitter bot for crowdsourcing data about public toilets
- Gender-Neutral Toilets in Switzerland: a blog tracking my research on the subject
Writing elsewhere
- Terrible Things Happening in Cold Places
- Running the first Trans*Code Switzerland hackday at 24 Days in December
- ADHD Productivity at The Human in the Machine
- My posts at the Liip blog