Alan Dayton
Research Assistant at Brigham Young University
Provo, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Dayton is a research-focused software engineer finishing an MS in Computer Science with 12 years of hands-on experience in scientific computing, high-performance computing, and parallel processing. He has interned twice at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and worked on high energy density physics software, complementing academic research at Brigham Young University where he is a current research assistant. His background includes test and tooling work at Microsoft and National Instruments, giving him strong engineering discipline across performance-critical and production systems. Based in Provo, Utah, Alan blends practical HPC expertise with programming language and tooling interests, and has a track record of turning complex simulation and data-analysis needs into reliable software.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.01, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.01 at Brigham Young University
Github Skills (98)
python10
computational-science10
testing10
windows10
abstraction10
portable-executable10
thread-sanitizer10
parallel-computing10
gpu10
cpp10
gpu-acceleration10
migrate10
scientific-computing10
simulations10
memory-management10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
adayton1/picture_book_illustrator
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
reactjavascriptpicturereactjsnextjs
llnl/MPIDiff
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
MPIDiff is a C++ library for pairing a correct version of an executable with a version that may have bugs or race conditions in it. The correct version checks that the data communicated from the other program matches its own and reports any differences.
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 3 commits in 7 months
cpprace-condition
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