Joel A. Mercado-Diaz

Joel's GitHub is best understood as a scientist's research repository: his projects are supplementary materials for lichen and botany studies (Cladonia sandstedei, Caribbean Sticta) and a scientific-computing final project, worked in Jupyter and Sass with a github.io page. It's genuine, purposeful use of code for research, though as a software-engineering signal it's modest — no stars, nothing deployed, mostly abandoned repos, no commits last year, and the one merged PR is his own. The strength is reproducible scientific computing; this reads as a domain researcher who codes rather than a product engineer.