Dan Wandschneider Nealschneider

About Dan Wandschneider Nealschneider

At Schrödinger, Inc, a computational chemistry company in Portland, Oregon and New York. We make software to make discovering therapeutics and materials easier and faster. I\'m the Tech Lead for the Scientific Infrastructure team. Our team maintains and extends the core chemistry libraries that underpin tools across the Schrödinger suite. We’re interested in software engineering - we want our code to be robust across its lifecycle. We’re also interested in programming - we want our code to be performant and correct across different chemistries or numbers of molecules. Some of this code is proprietary, but we also contribute to open source projects.I completed my Master of Science in physical chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. My focus was using computational simulations to determine geometric properties of biochemical reactions that occur on the femtosecond time scale. I have also worked as a teacher in Dubai, and as a volunteer coordinator for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.Specialties: C++, Python, SWIG, boost:python, automated testing, build systems, casual experience with C, golang, fortran, java & web development (django, js, d3).

Experience

1. Senior Staff Developer

   Schrödinger

   Jan 2015 — Present

   As the TL of the scientific infrastructure team, I help maintain the quality and performance of the chemistry libraries used by Schrödinger (C, C++, Python).

Education

• University of Puget Sound

  B.S., Chemistry

  2000 — 2004

• University of California, Berkeley

  M.S., Physical Chemistry

  2004 — 2009

Skills

• Unit Testing
• Chemistry
• Research
• Computational Chemistry
• Linux
• Spectroscopy
• Test Driven Development
• Gnu Make
• Simulations
• Bash
• Tdd
• Organic Chemistry
• C++
• Python
• Physical Chemistry
• Unix Shell Scripting