Eric Kratz
Software Engineer at General Dynamics Land Systems
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Kratz is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience blending machine learning, computer vision, and computational chemistry into production-grade systems. Based in Detroit, he has built ADAS and collision-prediction algorithms for embedded and mobile platforms, led data-science tooling and Scrum practices, and architected DevOps, CI/CD, and release processes for scientific software. His background includes a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry and contributions to notable open-source projects like the quantum chemistry package psi4, reflecting a knack for translating complex scientific code into maintainable engineering. At Ionworks he became a core maintainer of PyBaMM and streamlined packaging and cloud workflows—an example of his ability to bridge research software and commercial delivery. Colleagues know him for pragmatic engineering that balances rigorous scientific modeling with scalable deployment.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical Chemistry at University of PittsburghBachelor of Science (B.S.), Polymer Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Polymer Chemistry at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
English
Github Skills (7)
quantum-chemistry10
c-language10
computational-chemistry10
cprogramming-language10
debug9
chemistry8
python7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
psi4/psi4
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
Open-Source Quantum Chemistry – an electronic structure package in C++ driven by Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on bug fixes and minor improvements within the `psi4/psi4` repository, an open-source quantum chemistry package. Their contributions involved correcting printing issues in the conda linktest, addressing thermo-related warning messages, and removing a typo. Additionally, they incorporated a merge from the master branch into a feature branch, suggesting a role in maintaining the codebase and integrating changes.
physicschemistrypythonquantum-computingelectronic-structure
kratman/ZOModel
Mar 2015 - Sep 2022
ZOModel: Zombie outbreak modeling software
Contributions:127 commits, 4 PRs, 77 pushes in 7 years 6 months
outbreakzombieagent-based-modelingdiscrete-event-simulationmodeling
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