Adam Kunen
Group Leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, California, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Kunen is a seasoned software leader with 12 years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, currently serving as Group Leader in the Design Physics Division and holding dual roles supporting Global Security’s N Program. He has deep expertise in high-performance computing, deterministic particle transport codes (lead developer of Ardra), and exascale algorithm R&D, combined with hands-on experience building scalable infrastructure and parallel algorithms. Adam’s background spans low-level systems and networking—authoring message-based networking libraries in C/C++ across Windows, Linux, and macOS—and practical production work from CNC machining to platform operations. He is skilled at translating advanced computational research into robust, production-ready software and managing multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex scientific code. Based in Livermore, California, he brings a rare blend of research-focused innovation and systems-level implementation experience that accelerates large-scale simulation projects.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Western Washington University
Github Skills (71)
parallel-computing10
cpp10
migrate10
memory-management10
cluster-computing10
tuples10
snl-applications10
data-abstraction10
scalable10
deterministic10
particle10
transport10
mpi10
portability10
hpc-applications9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LLNL/Kripke
May 2014 - Sep 2021
Kripke is a simple, scalable, 3D Sn deterministic particle transport code
Contributions:5 releases, 5 reviews, 557 commits in 7 years 6 months
scalableparticlecppparticle-transportmpi
ajkunen/m-stack
Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
Free USB Stack for PIC 16F, 18F, 24F, and 32MX Microcontrollers
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
rp2040usbretrocomputing18fmicrocontrollers
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