Karl Bellvé
Major Retired at Freelance
Hubbardston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Bellvé is a multidisciplinary full-stack lead engineer and retired Major with 13 years of professional experience who blends Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Biology to design and build advanced biomedical imaging systems. Over two decades at the University of Massachusetts and its medical school he led software, electronics, and optics development for the Biomedical Imaging Group, delivering large-scale, on-time projects that integrated hardware and software for high-performance microscopes. He excels at translating biological research needs into thoughtful engineering design before a single line of code is written, and has collaborated closely with biologists, mathematicians, and physicists on published work. Based in Hubbardston, MA, he pairs a PhD in cell biology with hands-on systems engineering, a combination that enables him to bridge academic research and practical instrument implementation. A quietly pragmatic leader, he’s known for completing complex interdisciplinary projects within budget while keeping long-term maintainability front and center.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology, PhD, Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology at University of Maryland BaltimoreB.S., Biochemistry, B.S., Biochemistry at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (12)
ieee10
euler10
imagej9
microscopy9
image-processing8
circuit6
diode2
fiber1
controller1
mfc1
sequencing1
fusion1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kbellve/pgFocus-firmware
Jul 2015 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
kbellve/micro-manager
Aug 2019 - Sep 2021
Microscope control and image acquisition integrated with ImageJ.
Contributions:4 PRs, 26 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 1 month
microscopeintegratedimage-acquisitionimagejimage-processing
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