Chris Mackey
Co-Founder at Ladybug Tools
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Mackey is a co-founder and principal developer of Ladybug Tools, bringing 12 years of experience at the intersection of environmental design, building science, and computational tools. He designs, implements, and teaches energy modeling, thermal comfort, HVAC sizing, and detailed envelope heat-flow features used by thousands of practitioners and students worldwide. Chris drives maintenance of legacy plugins while evolving Ladybug, Honeybee, and Dragonfly to add visualization, comfort analytics, and macro-scale modeling integrations. His background combines applied research (peer-reviewed urban heat-island work at Yale), hands-on fabrication and parametric scripting at MIT, and real-world building science practice at firms like Payette and Thornton Tomasetti. Notably pragmatic, he bridges deep simulation capability with accessible teaching and tooling that accelerates adoption across practice and academia.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Masters of Architecture + Masters of Science in Building Technology, Master’s Degree Masters of Architecture + Masters of Science in Building Technology at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDegree: Bachelor of Arts Architecture; Design, Degree: Bachelor of Arts Architecture; Design at Yale University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (155)
meteorology10
scroll10
python10
radiance10
grasshopper10
energy10
heat10
environmental10
face10
core-library10
water10
rhino10
data-visualization10
dragonfly10
geometry10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
chriswmackey/honeybee-energy-standards
Oct 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:131 pushes in 5 years
energy-efficiencyrisk-assessmentstandardsenergy-dataenergy
ladybug-tools/honeybee-standards
Feb 2020 - Jan 2025
🐝 :books: Default standards and templates used throughout honeybee extensions.
Contributions:47 PRs, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
securityextensionsstandardshoneybee
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