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Francesco Mastrocinque

Welcome to my website! I'm a Chemistry/ECE PhD graduate from Duke University. I'm passionate about building new things using tools ranging from molecules, 3D printing, and programming. This website was built from scratch with the help of the Astro static site generator using a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Thanks for stopping by!

Education

Duke University

Doctor of Philosophy

Chemistry

August 2018 - May 2023

Duke University

Master of Science

Electrical & Computer Engineering

January 2021 - May 2023

Bard College

Bachelor of Arts

Chemistry

August 2014 - May 2018

Experience

Senior Software Engineer
July 2023 - Present

Intel Corporation

  • Lead a small team of software engineers to develop cross-platform software applications tailored to unique hardware design rules for silicon wafer process alignment using C#.
  • Developing full-stack hardware data collection pipelines using Svelte, Typescript, Tailwind, and Golang for use by internal hardware engineers.
  • Engineering relational SQL databases to support automated fab data-collection, information storage, and structured retrieval systems.
Full-Stack Software Engineer
August 2019 - Present

ChemGuides

  • Designed, programmed, and implemented a course-based, CRUD educational website via Heroku using Python, Django, and PostgreSQL that increased company revenue by over 30%.
Chemistry Research Assistant
August 2014 - May 2023

Duke University & Bard College

  • Bard College: Synthesized and characterized organometallic, transition metal complexes that exhibited luminescent, catalytic, and biological activity.
  • Duke University: Developed new classes of aryleneethynylene polymers that helically wrap single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) at a fixed pitch length. These assemblies modulate SWNT electronic structure, rendering them as next-generation hybrid nanoscale materials relevant to solar energy capture, conversion, and systems for spin-based communication.

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