Christian Schafmeister
CTO at ThirdLaw Molecular
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Schafmeister is a biotech founder, professor, and molecular biophysicist with over 16 years leading innovation and 12 years of hands-on engineering experience reflected in deep open-source Common Lisp contributions. As Founder and President of ThirdLaw Molecular he guides commercialization of patented Spiroligomer™ molecules—complex, natural-product-like therapeutics—while maintaining an active academic lab as a Professor at Temple University. His career bridges high-level discovery (PhD in Molecular Biophysics, postdoc in Chemical Biology at Harvard) with pragmatic software and tooling work, having adapted IDE and compiler backends (SLIME/SLY, CLASP, SICL) to support advanced debugging and multithreading for Lisp development. That rare combination of molecular design expertise and systems-level programming gives him a practical advantage in building reproducible scientific software and translating novel chemistry into therapeutic platforms.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral Research Chemical Biology, Postdoctoral Research Chemical Biology at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Molecular Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Molecular Biophysics at University of California, San FranciscoBachelor of Science - BS Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS Chemistry at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (18)
debugging10
compilation10
multithreading10
interpreter10
compiler-design10
emacs10
common-lisp10
bytecode10
compile10
lisp10
abstract-syntax-tree9
intermediate-code9
parse-tree9
intermediate-language9
code-generation8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
clasp-developers/clasp
May 2014 - Jan 2023
clasp Common Lisp environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 6730 commits in 8 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily worked on common lisp code related to a Common Lisp environment, specifically focused on the Clasp compiler and its bytecode interpreter. They implemented new functionality, fixed bugs, and optimized the code related to handling function entry points, byte code instructions, and variable bindings. These changes were aimed at improving the functionality and performance of the compiler and bytecode interpreter.
common-lispcompilerlisp
slime/slime
Dec 2014 - Jul 2021
The Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 26 pushes in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Christian primarily focused on the implementation and maintenance of the SLIME backend for CLASP, a Common Lisp implementation. Their work included adapting the Swank backend to work with CLASP, modifying compilation processes, and integrating with Clasp's debugging capabilities. Significant changes involved adjusting to CLASP's specific features and handling its compilation process, ensuring compatibility with Swank and Emacs. Further contributions added multithreading support and incorporated new CLASP debugging features.
emacslispcommon-lisp
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