Alex Kaszynski
Contractor Supporting Air Force Research Laboratory
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Kaszynski is a lead software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-impact simulation and digital-twin software for defense and industry, currently contracting to the Air Force Research Laboratory. He led development of FEMORPH, a patent-pending FEM update tool that has become a licensed DoD-to-industry product and supports AFRL digital twin and manufacturing QA efforts. Comfortable across C++, Python, Linux, and cloud-native toolchains, he blends deep mechanical engineering training (MS, USAFIT) with hands-on software design from Ansys to research labs. Alex has contributed significantly to open-source scientific tooling documentation—improving usability of projects like PyVista and PyMAPDL—underscoring a focus on making complex APIs accessible. He pairs algorithmic work on high-cycle fatigue and reverse-engineering of as-manufactured parts with practical deployment experience in Kubernetes, gRPC, and Azure. Based in Lafayette, CO, he specializes in turning advanced simulation research into production-ready software that bridges engineering and data-driven workflows.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.52, Bachelor of Science - BS, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 3.52 at United States Air Force AcademyMaster of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering, 3.383, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering, 3.383 at U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology
Github Skills (5)
api-documentation10
rs10
restructuredtext10
sphinx10
documentation10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
pyvista/pyvista
May 2017 - Jan 2023
3D visualization and mesh analysis for science and engineering
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:26 releases, 2791 reviews, 809 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the project's documentation through various updates. Their contributions included correcting typos, improving clarity, adding comprehensive example code snippets using a dedicated plotting directive, and fixing documentation build issues. Their work also involved restructuring and expanding documentation sections, such as the user guide and examples, making the project's API and features more accessible to users.
3dvisualizationvtkpythonmeshviewer
ansys/pymapdl
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
A Python client library for Ansys MAPDL
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:15 releases, 967 reviews, 714 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alex's commits primarily involved updating the documentation for the PyMAPDL library, including detailed explanations of various functionalities and features. They focused on clarifying the documentation for running MAPDL and converting ANSYS APDL scripts to python. The user added examples that described the available information to the main overview, incorporated a working example, and included additional information for the existing methods.
ansyspythonmeshnumerical-simulationstructural-mechanics
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