Nathan Clack
Staff Software Engineer at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
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
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics at The University of Texas at AustinDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biophysics at UC Berkeley
Github Skills (15)
file-processing10
file-handling10
napi10
pari10
visualization10
file-access10
visualizations10
n10
python10
fileio10
numpy10
debug9
debugging9
cli8
qt8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nclack/npe2
Sep 2021 - Sep 2023
Contributions:51 pushes, 21 branches in 2 years
nclack/chan
Jan 2011 - May 2016
Contributions:56 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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