Hussein Faara
Senior Software Engineer - Visualization And Infrastructure
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHussein Faara is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland with eight years of experience building visualization and infrastructure systems, currently driving such efforts at Schrödinger. He bridges computational chemistry and life sciences backgrounds—contributing backend fixes and enhancements to the widely used RDKit library—while previously applying ML to protein engineering at Merck and computational drug discovery at Genentech. Comfortable across the stack, he has hands-on experience with HPC support, full-stack product engineering, and production visualization tooling. A former Pomona College student and molecular biology research assistant, he combines domain knowledge in biology with rigorous software engineering practice. Outside work he channels creativity into web-based games and socially minded personal projects, reflecting a habit of turning exploratory ideas into usable tools.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence at Graduate schoolBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Pomona College
Github Skills (11)
rdkit10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
python10
cheminformatics10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
architecture8
architectures8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rdkit/rdkit
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
The official sources for the RDKit library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 19 PRs, 50 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Hussein primarily contributed to bug fixes and code improvements within the RDKit library. They addressed issues related to incorrect assumptions in JSON parsing, implemented optimizations by using const references, and removed legacy boost::regex support. Furthermore, they updated SMILES parsing to provide better error messages and implemented a feature for the MolEnumerator to use repeat counts for SRUs.
cheminformaticsrdkitpythonc-plus-plussources
whosayn/rdkit
Nov 2023 - Mar 2025
The official sources for the RDKit library
Contributions:1 PR, 54 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 4 months
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