Adam Simpson
Systems Engineer at Apple
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Simpson is a systems engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance computing infrastructure and containerized services, currently at Apple after a multi-year tenure at NVIDIA. He led NVIDIA’s Container Factory project, guiding a small team to design distributed, Rust-based services that advance HPC containerization. Prior to that he spent nearly a decade at Oak Ridge National Laboratory delivering custom C/C++/Python/CUDA solutions used by thousands of HPC researchers. With a master’s in physics, he brings a scientific approach to engineering, blending domain knowledge with low-level systems expertise. Comfortable across languages and stacks, he focuses on pragmatic, performance-driven designs that scale in production HPC environments. Less obvious: he routinely translates research-grade workflows into production tools, closing the gap between scientific computing needs and robust engineering.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Physics, Master's degree, Physics at University of Cincinnati
Github Skills (122)
singularity-container10
portable10
reproducible-science10
singularity10
apptainer10
portability10
cluster-computing9
linux9
parallel-processing9
mailman9
science9
yang9
parallel9
abstraction9
windows9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TinyTitan/SPH
Mar 2014 - Jul 2017
Parallel realtime SPH
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 3 years 4 months
sphrealtimeparallel
olcf/container-builder
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:716 commits, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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