Joshua Kempner
Principal Engineer at PowerModels™
Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Kempner is a principal software engineer and life-sciences systems leader with over a decade of experience translating physics-informed modeling into scalable imaging software for drug discovery. He currently leads core product development at PowerModels, guiding a small team on C#, .NET, ExcelDNA, Blazor, and event-stream databases while regularly presenting demos to investors and partners. Earlier at Revvity he directed architecture decisions across instruments, cloud services, and customer IT infrastructure, and established reusable, componentized software assets with an emphasis on reuse and scalability. At PerkinElmer he drove global software efforts for in vivo imaging and multi-mode detection, leading CQRS/ES-based frameworks and cloud-enabled platforms across US, EU, and India. His foundational work at VisEn Medical and his PhD in Astronomy give him a unique strength in photon diffusion, tomographic imaging, and mathematical modeling, bridging rigorous science with production software. Based in Massachusetts, he combines leadership across multi-site teams with a hands-on approach to design, development, and technical strategy that accelerates end-to-end imaging pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Physics, B.A., Physics at Oberlin CollegePh.D. Astronomy, Ph.D. Astronomy at University of Virginia
Github Skills (32)
cqrs10
reactive10
event-sourcing10
ddd10
blazor-webassembly8
minimum8
bare8
debug8
csharp7
blazor-client7
blazor7
netcore6
orbit6
blazor-server6
blazor-component6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
joshkempner/Cosmic.NET
Feb 2017 - Apr 2023
Small program that calculates the cosmological distances and timescales to an astronomical source using a user-defined cosmology at a given redshift
Contributions:5 releases, 47 reviews, 51 PRs in 6 years 3 months
distancespythondefinedredshiftastrophysics
joshkempner/TournamentManager
Mar 2020 - Apr 2023
Software for managing scheduling and referees for a small soccer tournament. Technologies: WPF, EventStore, ReactiveDomain. Still in early development, not ready for outside contributions.
Contributions:18 reviews, 23 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 years 2 months
eventstoredotnetschedulingtechnologiescqrs
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