John Furr
CEO And Chief Nerd at Duelly
Framingham, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Furr is a multidisciplinary engineering leader and founder with 14 years of experience blending scientific rigor and software craftsmanship across bioinformatics, e-learning, and computational chemistry. Currently CEO and Chief Nerd at Base Layer Robotics and CTO at Duelly, he brings hands-on expertise in Python, Django, Go, C++ and serverless backend design to build production-grade systems informed by a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry. His career spans industry research (Vertex, Ensemble Therapeutics) and product engineering (HBX, Addgene, Kyruus), where he translated complex scientific problems into scalable software. Known for pairing deep domain knowledge with pragmatic engineering, he often surfaces unexpected efficiencies by applying computational chemistry practices to software architecture and data modeling. Based in Framingham, MA, he favors challenging cross-disciplinary projects that sit at the intersection of science and scalable product engineering.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Medicinal Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Medicinal Chemistry at University of Mississippi School of Medicine
Github Skills (151)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gnulnx/anouman
Sep 2013 - Feb 2018
Contributions:94 commits, 1 PR, 17 pushes in 4 years 5 months
pythondjangodeploymentdeployment-managerdjango-deployment
gnulnx/django-mongolog
Nov 2015 - Jan 2019
A Simple Mongo Based Logger for Django
Contributions:27 releases, 75 commits, 109 PRs in 3 years 2 months
pythondjangologgermongologging
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