Josh Moore
Member And Co-Founder at German BioImaging - Gesellschaft für Mikroskopie und Bildanalyse e.V.
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Moore is a senior software architect and co-founder with 21 years of experience building open-source tooling for scientific imaging and large-scale data management. Based in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area, he combines long-term stewardship at Open Microscopy Environment and Glencoe Software with hands-on contributions to respected projects like Bio-Formats, Zarr, RDFLib and PyTables, improving file-format interoperability, metadata handling, and parser robustness. He also maintains bioinformatics packaging and CI work through Bioconda, showing a practical bent for deployable research software and reproducible environments. As Technical Director at German BioImaging and co-founder of the Image Cooperative, he focuses on advancing open standards for scientific image data—bridging research, engineering and community governance. Notably, his contributions often tackle the gritty build-and-compatibility issues that make complex scientific software reliably usable across ecosystems.
21 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Alabama
German, English
Github Skills (34)
parserator10
parser10
package-management10
python10
xslt10
rdflib10
testing10
graph10
zarr10
conda10
bash10
data-structure10
java10
linked-data10
numpy10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
zarr-developers/zarr-python
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
An implementation of chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays for Python.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:40 releases, 213 reviews, 77 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase related to the Zarr library's storage and metadata handling. Their work involved replacing outdated terminology like "Dataset" with "Array" in documentation and code, as well as refactoring code in the `n5.py` file. The user also addressed a bug concerning missing group metadata in the N5 file format. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the tests suite and documentation, adding new tests and clarifying existing documentation.
pythonn-dimensionaldimensionalarrayszarr
ome/bioformats
Jun 2009 - Feb 2022
Bio-Formats is a Java library for reading and writing data in life sciences image file formats. It is developed by the Open Microscopy Environment. Bio-Formats is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL); commercial licenses are available from Glencoe Software.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 779 commits, 210 PRs in 12 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the Bio-Formats project, focusing on improving its ability to read and write image file formats, particularly those used in life sciences. Their work involved modifying and integrating components, such as XSLT transforms and XSD-fu, into the build process. They also addressed specific issues by integrating updates from the team and website related to specification and XSLT changes. Additionally, the user made a code change to accommodate for issues related to setuptools.
gnubammetadatabio-formatscommercial
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