Alexander Gaenko
Software Engineer at KLA
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexander Gaenko is a software engineer with 11 years of experience applying rigorous software engineering to scientific computing, specializing in computational chemistry and electronic structure theory. He brings deep expertise in performance analysis, parallelization across processes, threads, and accelerators, and in making multi-language scientific codebases interoperate effectively. Based in Ann Arbor, he transitioned from long-term research and HPC roles at national labs and the University of Michigan to industry software engineering at KLA, combining domain research instincts with production-focused practices. Colleagues rely on him to squeeze performance from complex codes and to translate cutting-edge numerical methods into maintainable, scalable software—an engineer who thinks like a scientist but ships like a developer.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
AG SPSU — Faddeev Academic GymnasiumPhD, PhD at Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology (Technical University)High education, High education at Санкт-Петербургский Государственный УниверситетElementary school, Elementary school at 521 School, St-Petersburg, Russia
English, Russian
Github Skills (21)
ports10
command-line10
macos10
macports9
external7
rcpp6
matrix6
compatibility5
scientific-publications4
python4
open-access4
flask4
zenodo3
open-science3
packaging2
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ALPSCore/packaging
Mar 2015 - Mar 2019
Packaging files for ALPSCore
Contributions:6 PRs, 23 pushes, 10 branches in 4 years
packagingpack
galexv/ALPSCore
May 2016 - Apr 2019
Core ALPS libraries
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 11 months
alps
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