Ryan Colyer
Scientific Programmer at University of Pennsylvania
Greater Philadelphia United States
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Top SchoolRyan Colyer is a Scientific Programmer with seven years of professional experience who blends deep C++ systems engineering with neuroscience research and production Python tooling. At the University of Pennsylvania he led a small development team to build a robust multithreaded EEG acquisition and closed‑loop stimulation system used in large human studies, rescued misaligned intracranial EEG datasets with a custom algorithm, and managed cluster and AWS infrastructure for high‑throughput experiments. His background spans academia and industry—from developing detector and imaging software in photon-counting labs and at Maven Biotechnologies to teaching and mentoring as a physics professor—so he moves fluidly between research, production code, and mentoring. An active open-source contributor, he refactored core RNG and export behavior in the prominent OpenSCAD codebase, demonstrating attention to reliability and cross-library portability. He combines rigorous physics training (Ph.D.) with practical systems design, often favoring robust multithreaded architectures and reproducible pipelines for complex experimental workflows.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Physics & Computer Science, B.S., Physics & Computer Science at Allegheny CollegeUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (16)
c-language10
3d-graphics10
cprogramming-language10
opengl9
cpp9
c179
3d-models8
unit-testing8
macros6
algorithms6
pandas6
algorithm6
data-structures6
python6
data-structure6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openscad/openscad
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
OpenSCAD - The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 38 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on refactoring the random number generation functionality within the OpenSCAD codebase. Their work involved converting the random number generator (RNG) from a Boost library to the standard library, which included updating related tests to reflect the implementation change. Further contributions involved enabling the default binary STL output, providing an ASCII option, and refactoring the export functionality.
3dcadopenscad3d-modelsdxf-files
rcolyer/closepoints
Feb 2021 - Aug 2022
OpenSCAD ClosePoints Library
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
openscad
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