Hi, I'm Sebastian Ehlert, usually going by the handle@awvwgk. I'm a theoretical chemist by training, a self-taught software developer, and a package maintainer. I'm mainly developing electronic structure methods and computational chemistry programs in Fortran and Python.

I am involved in growing the open-source community around theFortran programming language, helping out by maintaining the infrastructure, contributing to the core projects, like thestandard library andpackage manager, as well as onboarding new contributors. I am developingTOML Fortran a library for serializing and deserializing TOML documents in Fortran and actively contribute to projects likeDFTB+,xtb,dftd4 and many more.

I'm an active package maintainer for several packaging ecosystems, mainly active atconda-forge, where I maintain >70 feedstocks providing scientific software and Fortran-related libraries and programs. I like the challenge of packaging useful but difficult-to-build software to reduce the friction of making them accessible to users.

By sponsoring my work, you can help ensure that I can dedicate my time to developing open-source software and packaging difficult-to-build yet important libraries and programs for the benefit of the scientific community.