Jim Schaff
Senior Software Architect at UConn Health
Farmington, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolJim Schaff is a Senior Software Architect with 19 years of experience building distributed, high-performance scientific software and SaaS products, currently shaping architecture at UConn Health and running ModelTwice, LLC. He co-founded and led Virtual Cell (vcell.org), a multi-user modeling and simulation platform for computational cell biology, and later scaled and launched model-informed drug development tooling as Director of Software at Applied BioMath. Comfortable translating between biologists, physicists, mathematicians and engineers, he combines hands-on systems and numerical methods expertise with product delivery and team leadership. His background spans embedded systems for aerospace to patented biosimulation technology, reflecting a rare mix of low-level engineering rigor and scientific modeling depth.
20 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Connecticut
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Github Skills (37)
simulation10
biology10
vega10
sbml10
install4j10
modeling10
visualizations9
bcrypt9
combine9
computational-biology9
systems-biology9
command-line-interface8
file-format8
hdf7
argocd7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
biosimulations/biosimulations-runutils
Mar 2024 - Jul 2026
Automation tools for running and comparing biosimulations from OMEX archives.
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
biosimulations/biosim-client
Nov 2024 - Jul 2026
library for accessing biosimulations APIs.
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 19 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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