Brian Kelley
Principal Software Engineer at Glysade LLC
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Kelley is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years in leadership roles and over two decades of technical experience at the intersection of software, chemistry, and scientific research. He has led engineering and scientific teams at companies like Relay Therapeutics and Novartis, and now drives product and architecture at Glysade LLC, blending experimental rigor with pragmatic software delivery. A seasoned cheminformatics developer, he has contributed backend and data-science improvements to the widely used RDKit library, tackling complex stereo and reaction handling. Trained in physics and electrical engineering at Cornell, he pairs algorithmic depth (Python, C++, FORTRAN) with a habit of treating hypotheses as testable code—discarding the ones that fail early to keep systems and thinking fresh.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (8)
rdkit10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
python10
cheminformatics10
algorithms8
data-structures8
data-structure8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rdkit/rdkit
Jan 2015 - Nov 2022
The official sources for the RDKit library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Back-end Developer & Data ScientistContributions:964 reviews, 269 commits, 877 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Brian focused on enhancing the RDKit library, contributing to the expansion of its capabilities within the field of cheminformatics. Their work involved implementing and testing functionalities for chemical reactions, including handling complex stereo transformations and refining the handling of chemical properties. The user's contributions demonstrated expertise in applying cheminformatics techniques, particularly in the areas of molecular analysis and property handling.
cheminformaticsrdkitpythonc-plus-plussources
bp-kelley/descriptastorus
Feb 2019 - Oct 2022
Descriptor computation(chemistry) and (optional) storage for machine learning
Contributions:39 commits, 15 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 years 8 months
computationpythonchemistrydescriptormachine-learning
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