Alan Silva
Senior Software Developer at Microbiotica
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlan Silva is a Senior Software Developer with a DSc in Biophysics and over a decade of experience building data infrastructure, scientific software and AI-driven solutions—particularly in ophthalmology and computational biology. He combines deep physics and bioinformatics training with pragmatic engineering skills in Python, cloud (AWS), HPC/GPU workflows, and pipeline tooling like Nextflow and ONNX to productionize research automation. Alan has a long history of coordinating high-quality, deadline-driven releases (UniProt core production) and maintains notable open-source projects such as ACPYPE, evidencing sustained community impact. Based in Cambridge, he thrives at the intersection of research and deployment, turning complex scientific problems into robust, reproducible systems that accelerate discovery.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Physics, BSc, Physics at Universidade Federal do ParáPontifical Catholic University of Rio de JaneiroDSc., Biophysics, DSc., Biophysics at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
flower10
metadata10
pitch10
visual-studio10
disposable10
linter10
cpp10
onnx10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
data-science10
audio-processing10
package-manager10
intellij10
keras10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
alanwilter/acpype
Oct 2017 - Jan 2023
OFFICIAL: AnteChamber PYthon Parser interfacE
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 340 commits in 5 years 3 months
gromacscharmmcnspythonpython-parser
phenopolis/visual_fields_extraction
Jul 2022 - Jan 2025
Python scripting framework for extraction data from Humphrey Visual Fields
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
extractionpythonscriptingdata-sciencedata-extraction
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