John Thomas
Principal Software Engineer at Autodesk
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Thomas is a Principal Software Engineer in Boston who blends a PhD in Materials Science with a decade of hands-on software development to build model-driven tools that predict atomistic behavior and accelerate materials discovery. He has led development of rigorously validated simulation software (co-leading the CASM project) and now applies that systems-level and algorithmic expertise to core geometry and interoperability for Revit at Autodesk. His work spans first-principles physics, machine-learned models trained on large quantum-chemistry datasets, and production C++/Python toolchains that bridge research and engineering. Known for turning complex thermodynamic and lattice-dynamics theory into usable, high-performance code, he’s comfortable mentoring researchers and shipping enterprise features. A less obvious strength is his ability to move between deep academic modeling of alloys, semiconductors, and battery materials and pragmatic engineering tradeoffs required for commercial design software.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Materials Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Materials Science and Engineering at University of MichiganBachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (30)
jupyter10
jupyterlab10
filesystem8
aws-s37
visualization7
pandas7
python7
data-structures6
data-analysis6
amazon-s36
javascript6
data-structure6
fuse6
data-science6
sequencing5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
johncthomas/jtmethtools
Oct 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:6 releases, 73 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
johncthomas/crispr_screen_viewer
Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
Take output of mageck and drugz to produce interactive Dash charts.
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 96 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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