Summary
Carl Menning is an application architect with a PhD in Chemical Engineering and over a decade of experience turning scientific research into production software, now leading architecture at The Craneware Group. He designs and delivers Java Spring and Ruby on Rails web applications, with hands-on expertise in Linux, HPC scripting for quantum calculations, SQL, and statistical analysis of customer feedback. Carl has driven productization and IP strategy—contributing to a commercial product, several safety software platforms, 11 US patents, and 17 peer-reviewed papers (747 citations, h-index 13). He combines deep domain science with pragmatic engineering and has repeatedly stepped into leadership roles across internal and external organizations, signaling both technical credibility and influence beyond the codebase. An underappreciated strength is his ability to port complex standalone scientific tools into full-stack web interfaces that make advanced analyses accessible to end users.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B. Ch. E Chemical Engineering, B. Ch. E Chemical Engineering at University of Minnesota
Ph. D. Chemical Engineering, Ph. D. Chemical Engineering at University of Delaware
Japanese, German, French, Vietnamese