James Law is a Staff Software and Applications Engineer with a PhD in Structural Biology and eight years of professional software experience building instrument control and data-analysis systems for scientific hardware. He has progressed from development scientist roles to software management and now staff-level engineering at Applied Photophysics, with prior senior engineering work at Thermo Fisher on XPS and EBSD software. James combines deep domain knowledge in biophysics and structural analysis with pragmatic software architecture and algorithm design to turn complex experimental data into user-friendly, actionable insights. He is comfortable across the stack鈥攚riting production code, shaping product architecture, supporting customers, and running experiments in the lab. Motivated by practical innovation, he repeatedly bridges the gap between scientific research and reliable, deployable software for analytical instrumentation. A scientist who truly enjoys programming, he brings rare interdisciplinary fluency that speeds both development and scientific discovery.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Rivington and Blackrod High School
PhD Structural Biology, PhD Structural Biology at The University of Manchester
Contributions:8 PRs, 7 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 6 months
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James Law - Staff Software And Applications Engineer