Stephen Rhein
Senior Software Engineer at Molecular Devices
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Rhein is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in computer vision, high-content biological image analysis, and performance-focused algorithm development. Based in Phoenixville, PA, he has driven R&D and productization work at Molecular Devices and FARO, delivering GPU- and CPU-optimized solutions using C++, OpenCL/CUDA, OpenCV, and Python. His background spans academia and industry—building gigapixel-scale microscopy pipelines, shared-memory NumPy extensions for multiprocessing, and embedded vision systems—demonstrating both deep low-level optimization and practical system integration. Stephen often bridges research and product teams, turning advanced image-analysis research into deployable tooling for biology and AR applications. A less obvious strength is his history of squeezing orders-of-magnitude speedups from hardware (80x GPU gains, NEON/Intel TBB parallelism), which enables real-time and large-scale workflows.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at Free Code CampCourseraMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 4.0 at East Stroudsburg University of PennsylvaniaBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.6, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, 3.6 at Bloomsburg University of PennsylvaniaMaster of Science (M.S.), Software Engineering, 3.6, Master of Science (M.S.), Software Engineering, 3.6 at University of Delaware
English
Github Skills (21)
multiprocessing10
memoization9
caching9
deep-learning8
image-generation8
audio8
flux8
parallel-computing8
stable-diffusion8
pytorch8
ai7
react7
python7
diffusion-models6
text2image6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
smrhein/overtime
Feb 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
VimsLab/PSITREScapture
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes in 2 months
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