Joe Jordan
Senior Specialist Solutions Architect, High Performance Computing at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Solna kommun, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Jordan is a Senior Specialist Solutions Architect in High Performance Computing with 12 years of experience bridging research-grade molecular simulation and production-scale HPC solutions. He holds a PhD in Biophysics and has deep hands-on expertise in GROMACS, performance engineering, and porting scientific code to modern GPU architectures, having improved APIs and reduced build complexity for widely used simulation tools. Joe combines strong software engineering (Python, C++) with domain knowledge in molecular modeling, bioinformatics, and ML to translate multidisciplinary research needs into performant, user-friendly workflows. At AWS he now focuses on helping teams operationalize HPC workloads in the cloud, drawing on prior roles at PDC/KTH and academic posts where he profiled and optimized critical scientific applications. A less obvious strength is his attention to code hygiene and maintainability—evident from targeted refactors in the GROMACS repo that improve long-term build and readability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Biophysics at The University of PennsylvaniaBachelor of Science (BS) Biochemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
refactoring10
acs10
cprogramming-language10
molecular-simulation10
grok10
gr10
r10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gromacs/gromacs
Mar 2018 - Sep 2022
Public/backup repository of the GROMACS molecular simulation toolkit. Please do not mine the metadata blindly; we use https://gitlab.com/gromacs/gromacs for code review and issue tracking.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:28 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Joe primarily focused on refactoring and making minor fixes within the GROMACS molecular simulation toolkit. Their contributions involved changing `gmx_bool` to `bool` throughout files within the `gmxpreprocess` directory, removing debug flags, and converting some `char` variables to `string` in the source code. The user also addressed an issue related to the `-chainsep` function in `pdb2gmx`. These modifications suggest a focus on code maintainability and improvement of the build process.
gromacspythonissue-trackinggitlabmolecular
ejjordan/airflowHPC
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:23 reviews, 68 PRs, 341 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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