Chris Macdermaid
Scientific Leader at GSK
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolChris Macdermaid is a scientific leader and computational biophysics expert with 15+ years of experience applying large-scale simulation, protein design and structural bioinformatics to drug discovery and enzyme engineering. Currently a Scientific Leader at GSK and formerly Director and Head of Computational Sciences at Agenus, he excels at bridging experimental teams and high-performance computing to deliver actionable insight for high-value projects. He built and tuned clusters, wrote and parallelized scientific software in C/C++ and Python, and is fluent in GPU/multi-core optimization, distributed data platforms and DevOps workflows. A seasoned educator and mentor, he has organized workshops, taught graduate courses and actively promotes interdisciplinary collaboration. Unusually for a computational scientist, he pairs deep academic pedigree (PhD in Physical Chemistry) with hands-on hardware assembly and long-standing Unix expertise dating back to Slackware in 1994.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry, magna cum laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemistry, magna cum laude at Central Michigan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Chemistry at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (31)
blast8
taxonomy7
user-friendly7
bioinformatics7
ncbi7
treeview7
metagenomics7
shell7
rust6
cli6
tree-structure6
clustering5
phylogenetics5
command-line5
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chrismacdermaid/.vmd.d
Jul 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:77 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
chrismacdermaid/vbox
Feb 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:45 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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