Davide Cruz
Data Scientist
Porto, Porto, Portugal
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Top SchoolDavide Cruz is a data scientist with eight years of experience who blends computational biophysics training (PhD-level) with practical data- and software-engineering skills to build tools that improve other people's workflows. He has worked across industry teams at FARFETCH and daily.dev, applying machine learning and data analysis to product and business problems while maintaining a strong engineering mindset. An active open-source contributor, he improved core functionality and test automation in the widely used MDAnalysis library—adding on-the-fly coordinate transformations and addressing reader rewind issues. His background in molecular simulations and scripting (PyMOL, Bash) gives him uncommon depth for data roles that touch scientific or simulation data. Colleagues describe him as a motivated learner who seeks technically challenging problems and ships reliable, well-tested solutions. Based in Porto, Portugal, he pairs research-grade rigor with production-oriented impact.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Molecular Biosciences (Computational Biophysics), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Molecular Biosciences (Computational Biophysics) at ITQB NOVAMaster of Science - MS Medicinal Chemistry, Master of Science - MS Medicinal Chemistry at Universidade do Minho
Portuguese, English, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (8)
mdanalysis10
pytest10
python10
testing10
unit-testing9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MDAnalysis/mdanalysis
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
MDAnalysis is a Python library to analyze molecular dynamics simulations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:56 commits, 13 PRs, 87 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Davide primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the MDAnalysis library, focusing on the `groupby` function and coordinate transformations. Their work included implementing features, adding tests to validate functionality, and improving the documentation. They also addressed a rewind issue in the `SingleFrameReader` and added transformations for rotation and box centering, indicating involvement in core functionality.
molecular-dynamics-simulationmolecular-dynamics-simulationspython-librarypythonscience
davidercruz/mdanalysis
Mar 2018 - Apr 2019
MDAnalysis is a Python library to analyze molecular dynamics trajectories.
Contributions:149 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 1 month
python-librarypythonmolecular-dynamicsmolecular-dynamics-trajectoriessimulation
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