Brian Day
Senior Scientific Software Engineer at Simulations Plus, Inc.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Day is a Senior Scientific Software Engineer with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and eight years of experience applying computational chemistry and data science to product-focused software. He builds cloud-native scientific tools and pipelines using Python, JavaScript, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS, and has moved from graduate research roles into industry positions at Emerald Cloud Lab and Simulations Plus. As an adjunct professor, he blends teaching with hands-on engineering, translating academic models into production-ready code and reproducible workflows. His background in Mathematica and deep chemistry domain knowledge lets him bridge algorithmic development and practical deployment, often tackling problems others treat as purely theoretical. Based in Philadelphia, he brings a researcher’s rigor to software engineering, prioritizing reproducibility, automation, and scalable scientific infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering at Lehigh UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Chemical Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (10)
mass-spectrometry8
ms-data7
linux5
stem5
windows5
macos4
openms4
algorithms4
codebase4
jekyll3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
birdday/atomaton
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Contributions:73 commits, 6 PRs, 189 pushes in 1 year 6 months
WilmerLab/sensor_array_mof_adsorption
Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:8 reviews, 148 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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