Barry Moore II
Senior Software Engineer at Mercury
Watertown, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarry Moore II is a Senior Software Engineer at Mercury with 11 years of experience building backend systems in Haskell and SQL, focused on solving hard problems and improving engineer productivity. He brings a rare blend of industry engineering and academic rigor, holding a PhD in Computational/Theoretical Chemistry from the University at Buffalo where his dissertation explored tuned density functional theory for optical and chiroptical properties. Before Mercury he supported research computing as a consultant and contributed to computational chemistry tooling—most notably implementing a Gaussian cube file reader for the widely used Avogadro libraries. An active functional-programming advocate, he shares technical content on the Chiroptical YouTube channel and favors Haskell, Erlang, and Gleam. Based in Watertown, MA, he pairs deep domain knowledge in scientific computing with practical backend engineering to bridge research and production systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Chemistry at University at Buffalo Graduate School
English
Github Skills (10)
file-handling10
file-processing10
c-language10
computational-chemistry10
file-access10
cprogramming-language10
fileio10
visualizations9
visualization9
qt8
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Avogadro libraries provide 3D rendering, visualization, analysis and data processing useful in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 14 PRs, 34 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Barry primarily contributed to the development of a Gaussian cube file reader for the Avogadro libraries. Their work involved creating a new file format class and implementing the `read` function to parse Gaussian cube files and populate a molecule with the data. They also made subsequent refinements, including adhering to coding style guidelines and fixing minor issues in the reader implementation. The changes involved modifying existing code and integrating the new functionality within the project.
compchempythonc-plus-plussimulationbioinformatics
chiroptical/chiroptical
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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