Paul Sathre
Research Software Engineer at Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science
South Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Sathre is a research software engineer dedicated to open, portable, high-performance computing that empowers scientists and clinicians to leverage all available compute power without compatibility headaches. Based in South Carolina, he brings over a decade of HPC experience to Virginia Tech's Computer Science Department, focusing on high-performance and heterogeneous computing across fluid dynamics, molecular modeling, and graph analysis. He specializes in software portability across CUDA-to-X and OpenCL, and in boosting developer productivity for heterogeneous, performance-portable applications. An early and ongoing advocate for open standards and open-source runtimes, he has worked with LLVM/Clang and related ecosystems since his MS thesis, underscoring a career-long belief that collaboration accelerates impact. He earned Magna Cum Laude BS and an MS with Outstanding Thesis from Virginia Tech, reflecting rigorous academics paired with practical, production-focused research. His work aligns with the SYCL and hardware/software co-design movement, pushing open heterogeneous HPC forward for both commercial and research use.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Magna Cum Laude at Virginia TechMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science and Applications, Dept. of Computer Science Outstanding M.S. Thesis 2012/13, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Applications, Dept. of Computer Science Outstanding M.S. Thesis 2012/13 at Virginia Tech College of Engineering
Github Skills (48)
zones8
zfs8
jail7
geoserver6
freebsd6
gis5
plugin5
geotools5
bootstrap4
rails4
containers4
discovery4
automation4
docker4
ansible3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
VTUL/InstallScripts
Jul 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:99 commits, 162 PRs, 79 pushes in 4 years 7 months
VTUL/sufia-install
Mar 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 8 months
sufia
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