Douglas Franz
Principal Satellite Software Engineer
Greater Tampa Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDouglas Franz is a Principal Satellite Software Engineer and Ph.D. computational scientist with over a decade of cross-disciplinary experience building embedded satellite systems, geospatial imagery pipelines, and high-performance scientific software. He combines leadership of international research teams—contributing to 20+ publications and over $1.8M in grant funding—with hands-on engineering in AI, SAR/EO image processing, telemetry, and data fusion for defense, energy, and commercial applications. His background in computational/physical chemistry and environmental science informs rigorous simulation, uncertainty quantification, and statistical modeling practices that he applies to remote sensing and machine vision problems. Equally fluent in full-stack web development and HPC workflows, he bridges research and product delivery from prototype to production. Colleagues rely on him for clear communication of complex technical results, and he has a proven track record turning academic advances into operational software.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computational/Physical Chemistry, Ph.D. Computational/Physical Chemistry at University of South Florida
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (117)
miner10
monte-carlo10
chemistry10
systems-biology10
molecular-simulation10
dynamics10
simulation10
text-based9
simulations9
molecular-dynamics-simulation9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
khavernathy/md_gpu
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
khavernathy/mcmd
Feb 2017 - Apr 2021
Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics Simulation Package
Contributions:3 releases, 1185 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 2 months
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