Rui Melo
Managing Director at Agrifirm Hungary Zrt part of Royal Agrifirm
Budapest, Hungary
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Melo is a seasoned managing director and technology-savvy leader with 13 years of senior experience guiding transformation, M&A and SAP rollouts across agribusiness and food industries from Budapest. He has a track record of driving double-digit improvements in revenue, efficiency and supply-chain resilience while leading cross-functional teams and managing multi‑million euro budgets. A former IT director and ERP program manager, Rui blends deep hands-on systems experience with commercial strategy—he led successful integrations of Agrifirm Hungary and Nuscience and oversaw regional SAP template implementations. Uncommonly for an executive, he also contributes to open-source scientific software (MDAnalysis), improving trajectory file handling and indexing for molecular dynamics workflows, reflecting a practical engineering mindset. Known for building high‑performance teams and cutting conflict and turnover, he combines operational rigor with a talent for market-driven product and sourcing strategies.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
IUT Informatique, IUT Informatique at Université René Descartes (Paris V)
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (8)
analyse10
python10
nonlinear-dynamics9
numpy9
molecular-dynamics-simulation9
c119
molecular-simulation9
c179
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MDAnalysis/mdanalysis
Apr 2013 - Jan 2023
MDAnalysis is a Python library to analyze molecular dynamics simulations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & XDR Library Contributor
Back-end Developer & XDR Library ContributorContributions:18 reviews, 124 commits, 63 PRs in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rui primarily focused on enhancing the MDAnalysis library's capabilities for handling molecular dynamics trajectories, specifically for the XTC and TRR file formats. They implemented XTC seeking/indexing and similar indexing procedures for TRR trajectories, improving file access and processing. The user's work involved modifying and extending the `libxdrfile` library to provide functionality for reading frame offsets, enabling the ability to seek to specific frames, and improving error handling. The user's work was validated by unit tests.
molecular-dynamics-simulationmolecular-dynamics-simulationspython-librarypythonscience
HowToThink/HowToThink
Apr 2016 - Dec 2018
Adaptation of the excellent open book How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
Contributions:9 commits, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 8 months
nlpexcellentthinkmachine-learningscientist
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