Baha Kassaby
Senior Scientific Software Engineer at Eclipse Foundation
Bar Harbor, Maine, United States
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Top SchoolBaha Kassaby is a Senior Scientific Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building full‑stack, data‑driven applications for world‑class scientific facilities and open‑source ecosystems. At The Jackson Laboratory he leads development of genomic and imaging platforms—combining Flask/Springboot backends, Angular frontends, Plotly visualizations, and ML pipelines deployed on GKE—to accelerate analysis workflows and enable reproducible science. He is an active Eclipse committer with deep roots in scientific tooling (DAWN, DAWNSci, Nebula) and a history of translating research needs into production software at synchrotron and lab environments. Comfortable across Java, Python, cloud native and workflow orchestration, he pairs hands‑on coding with mentoring and published contributions to domain papers. Based in Bar Harbor, Maine, he brings a rare blend of instrumentation/automation background and modern cloud/ML ops experience that helps bridge scientists and engineers.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of LiverpoolBachelor, English, Literature & Economics, Bachelor, English, Literature & Economics at Université Sorbonne NouvelleDUT (BEng), Electrical Engineering, DUT (BEng), Electrical Engineering at IUT Annecy
English, French, German
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Github Skills (41)
eclipse10
r-package9
widgets9
visualization9
webgl9
plotly-dash9
charting9
charts9
plotly9
nebula9
regl9
swt9
data-visualization8
angular8
spigot8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TheJacksonLaboratory/PhenopacketLab
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
An Angular/Springboot web application for the loading, editing, saving of data that follows the Phenopacket Schema
Contributions:50 reviews, 321 commits, 51 PRs in 1 year 1 month
angularspring-boot
TheJacksonLaboratory/mvar-frontend
Jan 2024 - May 2025
MVAR angular frontend application
Contributions:5 reviews, 6 PRs, 14 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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