Richard Gildea
Lead Scientific Software Engineer at AQEMIA
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Gildea is a Senior Scientific Software Engineer with 17 years' experience building and maintaining data analysis pipelines and core scientific software for crystallography and structural biology. He has a strong track record at national labs and major facilities—contributing key features to PHENIX, DIALS, xia2 and developing xia2.multiplex for multi-crystal symmetry analysis and merging. Comfortable moving between research and production, Richard has implemented novel algorithms (including multi-lattice indexing and shot-by-shot XFEL processing) and shipped robust tools used on MX beamlines. His background combines a Durham University PhD in chemistry with deep hands-on coding, enabling him to translate experimental needs into scalable software. Recently he has continued this blend of science and engineering in senior roles across industry and research organizations. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex diffraction challenges into dependable, reproducible pipelines.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
John Cleveland CollegePhD Chemistry, PhD Chemistry at Durham University
Github Skills (99)
expert-system10
python10
toolbox10
crystallography10
cpp10
mass-spectrometry10
infrared10
diffraction10
stored-procedures10
file-structure10
cheminformatics9
data-processing9
database9
experiment9
web-application9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
rjgildea/dials
May 2019 - Nov 2021
Diffraction Integration for Advanced Light Sources
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
software-defined-radiolightnightmercuryzones
dials/dials-rest
Nov 2022 - Jun 2023
A RESTful API to a (limited) subset of DIALS functionality
Contributions:11 releases, 29 PRs, 62 pushes in 7 months
apirestfulsubsetrest-apirestful-api
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