Matthew Monroe
Software Engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Richland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Monroe is a software engineer with 19 years at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, blending a Ph.D.-level background in analytical chemistry with deep expertise in database architecture, systems administration, and software development for proteomics and bioinformatics. He leads development and optimization of PRISM, a scalable pan-omics data management platform that integrates databases, file and web servers, and analysis pipelines to process mass spectrometry workloads. Comfortable across C#, Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server, he pairs low-level instrumentation automation know-how with large-scale data engineering. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he has improved code quality and added features to community projects like a popular Minecraft achievements plugin, demonstrating attention to maintainability and user-facing functionality. Based in Richland, WA, he thrives at the intersection of lab science and production-grade software systems.
19 years of coding experience
B.S., B.S. at University of WyomingPh.D., Ph.D. at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (16)
plugin-development10
javas10
minecraft-forge10
bukkit10
spigot10
java10
plugin10
refactoring9
configuration-management8
sql-server6
centos6
stored-procedures6
linux6
csv6
postgresql6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
PyvesB/advanced-achievements
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
:fireworks: Popular plugin that adds unique and challenging achievements to Minecraft servers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily focused on improving the code quality and maintainability of the Minecraft plugin. They refactored code to reduce redundancy, replacing repeated calls with single calls to improve readability. The user added functionality for displaying achievement goals, supporting the use of display names in the GUI, and added silk touch configuration settings. They also fixed bugs and improved the overall structure of the Java code.
minecraftbukkit-pluginchallengingbukkitplugin
PNNL-Comp-Mass-Spec/MzidMerger
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:7 releases, 34 commits, 12 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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