Ventura Rivera
Lead Integration Engineer
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolVentura Rivera is a Lead Integration Engineer and data engineer with 8 years of experience translating scientific domain knowledge into robust data platforms and integrations. Trained as a chemical and biomolecular engineer at UC Berkeley, he has built ETL pipelines, client libraries for materials and chemical web APIs, and microservices that power analytics for Fortune 500 customers. He brings hands-on experience across lab instrumentation, field engineering, and enterprise data systems—bridging experimental workflows with production software. At Citrine Informatics he combined customer-facing technical leadership with deep engineering, contributing to architecture, product features, and executive-level engagements. Now based in Santa Barbara, he focuses on sustainability, efficiency, and pragmatic solutions that make scientific data more accessible and actionable. A detail that often surprises colleagues: he started by automating chemical hazard data via web scraping in a national lab, saving years of manual work and kickstarting his transition into data engineering.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (20)
proteins10
structural-biology9
pdb-files9
scientific-visualization9
pdb8
webgl8
csv-parser7
csv-reader7
csv6
campus5
data-import5
binding5
reference-implementation4
api4
python4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ventura-rivera/molstar
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
A comprehensive macromolecular library
Contributions:16 pushes in 10 days
ventura-rivera/surfcam
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
campus point surfcam
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
campuspointcomputer-vision
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