Nathan Clack
Principal Software Engineer at Biohub
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Clack is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building high-performance, GPU-accelerated systems and scientific imaging software. He combines deep domain expertise in OpenGL, CUDA, computer vision and microscopy with a PhD in Biophysics from UC Berkeley, bridging research-grade instrumentation and production engineering. As a co‑founder and technical lead at Vidrio Technologies he shepherded ScanImage to wide scientific adoption and led hardware and PCIe firmware projects, later applying that systems mindset to distributed visualization and streaming databases at Kinetica. He has driven large-scale bioinformatics and neuroanatomy pipelines at HHMI and led engineering and strategy at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, evidencing both hands-on development and program leadership. Based in San Jose, he excels at turning complex scientific requirements into performant, cross-platform products and has a track record of securing and executing grant-funded R&D.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biophysics at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at The University of Texas at Austin
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Github Skills (14)
file-processing10
file-handling10
napi10
pari10
visualization10
file-access10
visualizations10
n10
fileio10
python10
numpy10
debugging9
cli8
qt8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
nclack/mexrs
Mar 2017 - Apr 2022
A simple example showing how to make a Matlab mex-function with Rust.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 years 2 months
matlabmexrust
nclack/npe2
Sep 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:51 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years
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