Mark Mackey
Chief Scientific Officer at Cresset software and discovery
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Mackey is a computational chemist, software developer and entrepreneur with over two decades driving ligand-based drug discovery and cheminformatics innovation. As Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Cresset since 2002 he has led software development from low-level assembly to modern C++ and Qt, creating user-friendly GUIs and bespoke languages for molecule wrangling. His background spans hands-on molecular modelling roles in both big pharma and startups, a PhD from Cambridge and a rare blend of deep domain science with production-grade engineering. Known for building practical computational chemistry techniques (QSAR, ligand-based methods) and shipping them as polished tools, he combines scientific rigor with product sensibility. A long-time programmer with expertise across Fortran, C, C++, Perl and JavaScript, he brings both research pedigree and entrepreneurial grit to drug discovery software.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. (Hons), Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, 1st, BSc. (Hons), Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, 1st at University of TasmaniaPhD, Chemistry, PhD, Chemistry at University of Cambridge
French
Github Skills (42)
scoring10
rdkit10
cheminformatics10
simulation9
python9
parameterization9
hpc-applications9
computational-biology8
mutation8
sbml8
aws8
parallel-computing8
materials-informatics8
molecule8
molecular-simulation8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MobleyLab/Lomap
Mar 2019 - Dec 2020
Alchemical mutation scoring map
Contributions:75 commits in 1 year 9 months
mapmutationalchemicalscoring
mark-cresset/StarCluster
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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