Zach Rolfs
Research Specialist at 3M
Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Rolfs is a research specialist with a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry and a decade of experience combining hands-on analytical chemistry with software development to accelerate R&D and manufacturing. He has deep expertise in GC, LC, and MS method development and built automated online process instruments and data workflows that turned multi-day analyses into minute-scale outputs, contributing to projects with hundreds of millions in NPV. Equally fluent in Python, C#, MATLAB, R, Java, and Excel, Zach has contributed to high-impact open-source tools—co-leading the widely used MetaMorpheus proteomics project and adding functionality to the ScottPlot .NET plotting library. He regularly bridges disciplines, mentoring lab teams while designing robust CI practices and reproducible data pipelines, and has a track record of publishing and collaborating internationally on high-profile science. Based in Michigan, he brings a pragmatic blend of experimental rigor and software engineering that drives actionable insights from complex chemical data.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Analytical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Analytical Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-MadisonMounds View Senior High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) ACS Chemistry, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) ACS Chemistry at St. Olaf College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
data-visualizations10
net10
asp-net10
data-visualization10
dotnet10
c-language10
data-visualisation10
cprogramming-language10
csharp10
plot10
dotnet-core10
charting10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ScottPlot/ScottPlot
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Interactive plotting library for .NET
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Zach's primary contribution involves adding functionality for error bars to a plotting library. They modified the `PlottableScatter` class, introducing new properties for representing and rendering error ranges, along with corresponding changes in the `Plot` class to support the new features. The user also implemented an error bar demo and integrated x-axis offset functionality, demonstrating their focus on enhancing the library's capabilities and user experience. These changes were followed by reverts of some of the changes, including the demo and some of the error bar code, which indicates some code churn.
chartsdotnetchartchartingplot
zrolfs/mzLib
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Library for mass spectrometry projects
Contributions:58 PRs, 232 pushes, 50 branches in 5 years 6 months
spectrometrymass-spectrometrymass
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