Dennis Piehl
Scientific Software Developer at RCSB Protein Data Bank
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Piehl is a Scientific Software Developer with a decade of experience bridging biochemistry and information science to accelerate biomedical research through data-driven tools and analysis. With a PhD in biochemistry and an MLIS, he combines deep domain expertise in structural biology and NMR with practical software and database skills developed at the RCSB Protein Data Bank and in cheminformatics. He has a track record of turning complex experimental pipelines into reusable computational workflows, from SSNMR method development to chemical compound databases. Based in New Brunswick, NJ, he thrives at the intersection of research and engineering, translating academic collaborations into production-ready resources that empower scientists to explore molecular structure and function. A less obvious strength is his librarian-trained emphasis on discoverability and sustainable data curation, which informs how he builds tools for long-term scientific reuse.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Biochemistry at Seattle UniversityFreie Universität BerlinUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (113)
blast10
transliteration10
taxonomy10
visualizations10
api10
json10
dictionary10
elastic10
metagenomics10
kibana10
async9
ncbi9
points9
rest9
swagger-ui9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rcsb/py-rcsb_utils_targets
Dec 2021 - Apr 2025
RCSB module containing methods for target data management
Contributions:11 reviews, 34 PRs, 69 pushes in 3 years 4 months
data-managementrcsbwpspiickan
rcsb/py-rcsb_utils_chemref
Jan 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 reviews, 16 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 10 months
pythonreference-datapdbchemicalpackaging
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