Ryan Nelson
Software Engineer III, Scientific Computing & Orchestration
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Nelson is a software engineer with nine years of interdisciplinary experience who combines computational biology expertise with production-grade ML and data engineering. Currently at Generate:Biomedicines, he builds scientific computing and orchestration tooling to accelerate protein design workflows, having moved through bioinformatics, MLOps, and computational protein generation roles. He has a track record of spotting organizational gaps—at Target he pioneered Spark/Scala runtime optimization experiments and published reusable performance tuning guides—demonstrating a bias for proactively shipping durable knowledge. Trained in computational biology (Carnegie Mellon) with a CS undergraduate and an earlier career in architecture, he brings both systems thinking and design intuition to complex, high-performance problems. Based in Somerville, MA, he’s a prolific creator and budding computational biologist who seeks challenging problems at the intersection of software engineering and genetic engineering.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) Architecture & Urban Design, Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) Architecture & Urban Design at University of Notre DameHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Saint Mary's Central High SchoolMaster's degree Computational Biology, Master's degree Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at North Dakota State University(non-degree) Mathematics, (non-degree) Mathematics at University of North Dakota
English
Github Skills (10)
javascript-game4
spring3
octopus3
feature-selection2
pypi2
javascript2
python2
simulation1
deep-learning1
predictive-modeling1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ryanquinnnelson/NDSU-CSCI160-SpaceInvaders4
Nov 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
ryanquinnnelson/NDSU-CSCI161-GroceryStoreNavigationApp
Nov 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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