ryan molecke

* Led the technical team that was accepted into the Techstars Boulder 2016 Accelerator * Rebuilt Ruby on Rails, React, Backbone, Node stack, and a secure Bitcore-based Bitcoin web-wallet * Designed and built a high-performance orderbook tracking and price quoting system with Redis support * Brought in new business affiliates and investor relationships, participated in financial tech planning meetings, worked with AML/KYC API systems, financial compliance certification

* lead dev at a cryptocurrency exchange supporting several exchanges and hundreds of currency pairs * updated software to account for all transaction and brokerage fees and calculate accurate profit/balance numbers * administered and secured many servers and software daemons, led integration with Ripple payment platform * managed github repositories and taught a team of programmers to get them on a stable release cycle * wrote secure API for integration with market afilliates, allowing them to process orders via our exchange * wrote statistical analysis tools to safely stabilize customer quoted rates

EnLedger is an asset and technology trust using blockchain tech to track shares in portfolios of real-estate and green-energy assets. We work with large-scale developers to bring our clients first access to exclusive investment opportunities, and we manage real-world project integrations. We oversee energy-grid tech and building performance projects, energy contracts, sales, certificate & rebate systems, and grid technology applications such as micro-grids, grid optimization, peer-to-peer energy trading and risk management systems (P2P/ETRMS), sensor meshnets, AI and machine learning integrations, secure data management, and CRM/IAM apps.

* worked with Simmetrix Inc. and NASA to enable CFD shock feature detection, boundary layering, and solve loops in FEM aerospace simulations using the FUN3D solve engine * wrote a finite-element mesh and geometric model transfer library to enable parallel in-memory solve/adapt loops for the Sandia Labs Trilinos Users Group, including the AthenaVMS and Albany teams * maintained several C++ SVN repositories, responded to customer software tickets, wrote new complimentary meshing tools * trained undergrad / grad students and helped them integrate into the research group

* Led investigation of force interactions between micro-particles and live cells for drug-delivery applications, operating in the Laser Tweezer Optical Trapping Laboratory in the Microfluidics group at SNL. * Electrochemical / biochemical preparations of live cells, liposomes, coated silica beads with flourophores and active surface groups * wrote software and hardware drivers to control the microscope stage, high-res ccd camera, laser, and acousto-optic deflector * artificial-vision algorithms force interactions from statistical analysis of video of trapped-particle interactions

Accepted into the Techstars Boulder 2016 class as Chief Technology Officer and founder of a sponsored company, Techstars family for life :D

* implemented the classical Flory-Huggins polymer/solvent interaction potentials into the Large-Scale Atomic-Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS) * DEM simulations of "soft-particle" colloids with polymer, electrohydrodynamic, and phase-interface forces * developed a tool to perform grazing-incidence small-angle x-ray spectroscopy (GISAXS) intensity plots in-silico, and a tool to statistically quantify clustering vs. randomness in 3D distributions of particles. * post-doc here to implement polydisperse system simulations and complete documentation and a tutorial

* Developed and debugged the core of Open Transactions, an encrypted triple-entry ledger platform * Converted 60,000 lines of Chaiscript to C++11, ensuring all balance / decimal accuracy during the update * Helped write documents defining a “voting pools” consensus mechanism for a bitcoin “sidechain” mechanism * Participated in service-based architecture design, learned professional git usage under an AGILE / SCRUM team

I wrote and maintain a Tcl/Tk graphical user interface for spatial statistical calculations in R, which quantifies spatial clustering, co-clustering, and randomness in point patterns. This tool was used to characterise protein pathways via analysis of ultra-high-resolution optical images of gold nanoparticles attached to surface proteins on lysed cancer cell membranes. I ported this software from Linux to Windows and released several versions and many revisions to support lab scientists from all over the world. During my last lab rotation with Sandia National Labs and the Advanced Materials Lab at UNM, I extended this tool to accept 3D data and wrote a library API into the Large-Scale Atomic/Molecular Massively-Parallel Simulator (LAMMPS) for clustering analysis of colloid systems.

* tested microchips for functionality at the wafer stage, and did yield modeling and materials dispositioning * operated and programmed die-level microchip testing machines * Industrial manufacturing statistical analysis and graphical modeling, yield / failure analysis, tools programming, and tech documentation

* Designed and built a fully interactive 3D webGL globe, Tectractys NASDAQ/NYSE Market Globe * Building out SummitBit charting & automated trading site running on Ruby on Rails, React, Node stack * Currently working on energy applications in distributed ledger systems, media payment layers, and charity auctions

Crystallographic analysis of semiconductor nano-pillars and nano-pyramids formed via plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, atomic modeling of lattices and surface reconstructions, advanced crystal formalism and theory. I have extended this research to model evolution of crystal shape during both bounded and solvated growth and extrapolation of surface energies for correlation to first-principles calculations, interpretation and prediction of dynamic crystal growth, and nanoparticle toxicity studies.

Concentration: Bio-Nano Interfaces

Concentration: Hardware and Interface Design Activities and Societies: Department webmaster in 2003. I built the 1KA "pulser" for the Plasma and Fusion Research Group in 2004.