Barry Dezonia
Scientific Programmer at NMRFAM, Biochemistry, UW-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolBarry Dezonia is a Scientific Programmer with 16 years of engineering experience applying software to the sciences, from forestry and satellite imagery to molecular biology and NMR. He has deep hands-on expertise across image processing, applied mathematics, web and systems administration, and is one of the original developers of ImageJ2 and creator of the Zorbage library. Based in Madison, WI, Barry has built research-focused tools like OPTO and BPHON, contributed tests and backend work to the widely used Bio-Formats project, and maintains a long-running commitment to open source. Comfortable working at the intersection of research and production, he pairs formal training in computer science and mathematics with a knack for pragmatic, reusable scientific software.
16 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Mathematics, Minor, Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (4)
junit10
java10
javas10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ome/bioformats
May 2010 - Jul 2010
Bio-Formats is a Java library for reading and writing data in life sciences image file formats. It is developed by the Open Microscopy Environment. Bio-Formats is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL); commercial licenses are available from Glencoe Software.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:75 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Barry contributed to the implementation of the `ImporterTest.java` file, which included tests for different functionalities, such as default behavior, output stack order, and dataset concatenation, within the Bio-Formats library. The code changes involved implementing and refining several test methods. Additionally, the user worked on a variety of test cases which helped verify the different library features of the `bioformats` library.
gnubammetadatabio-formatscommercial
bdezonia/zorbage-scifio
Jun 2020 - Nov 2024
zorbage-scifio: code for using the SCIFIO data file loading library to populate data into zorbage structures for further processing
Contributions:18 releases, 1 PR, 101 pushes in 4 years 5 months
javaimagepopulatereader
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