Cheminformatics software engineer at NextMove Software.My entrance into cheminformatics and my PhD focused on how we represent chemicals in a computer, and how the choice of representation could be used in data compression. My work included writing language parsers and concluded with a novel PAQ compression algorithm for chemical entities. My experience in software is systems level, I write in C and assembly, and have strong interests in compilers, computer architecture and especially hardware emulation… The closest I can get as a software engineer to creating real chips. Starting out as a hobby purely to play older games from when I was younger, I regularly contribute to the open-source PlayStation emulators (IBM CELL). Learning how the old game designers got every inch from the hardware when speed was at a premium is never boring.