James Myers
Scientific Software Researcher Developer at Self-employed
City of Albany, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Myers is a Scientific Software Researcher and Developer with a decade of focused experience building cyberinfrastructure for data- and computation-intensive science, informed by a Ph.D. in Experimental Chemistry. He has led and managed multidisciplinary projects and large-scale research facilities for institutions including RPI, NCSA, University of Michigan, and national labs, and has published widely (70+ peer-reviewed works) on socio-technical issues that affect scientific software adoption. Comfortable at the intersection of research, software engineering, and operations, he designs data acquisition, curation, and preservation systems and has run software-as-a-service capabilities under federal research funding. James also brings practical teaching and program leadership experience—creating a cross-disciplinary cyberinfrastructure course—and a knack for translating complex scientific workflows into sustainable, community-oriented software.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Chemistry, Ph.D., Chemistry at University of California, BerkeleyBA, Physics, BA, Physics at Cornell University
Github Skills (48)
data-repository10
directory-tree10
dataverse10
ansible-role9
json-ld9
go8
eventbus8
location8
python-modules8
logfile7
api7
python6
pdf-format6
spi5
kubernetes-cluster5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Data-to-Insight-Center/SEAD-NDS-Repository
Feb 2017 - Jan 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes in 7 years
QualitativeDataRepository/dataverse-previewers
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Contributions:75 commits, 9 PRs, 102 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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