Andrew Franklin
Independent Developer at TerraPower, LLC
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Franklin is an independent developer and software engineer with 11+ years building production scientific and engineering software, from regulatory-grade thermal-hydraulics for TerraPower and national labs to open-source developer tooling in Rust. He blends a strong applied-math and nuclear-engineering background with hands-on systems design, having contributed THM modules to the widely used MOOSE multiphysics framework and developed RELAP-7 tooling. Now focused on composable primitives and AI-assisted workflows, he builds small, interoperable Rust CLIs that enable air-gapped, reproducible developer experiences using Claude Code. Known for meticulous documentation and verification practices, he brings discipline from safety-critical domains to open-source dev tooling, mentoring teams while iterating rapidly on architecture and prototypes.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Nuclear Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (10)
simulations10
simulation10
finite-element-analysis10
moose-framework10
c-language10
el10
f10
object-oriented-programming10
cprogramming-language10
multiphysics9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
idaholab/moose
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the development of thermal-hydraulics (THM) modules within the MOOSE framework. Their commits involved porting and integrating various kernels, initial conditions (ICs), materials, and user objects, specifically those relevant to single-phase flow from the RELAP-7 project. The contributions also included modifications to existing files to align with the THM framework and the MOOSE simulation environment. These changes aimed to expand the simulation capabilities of the MOOSE environment to include THM physics.
pythonfinite-element-analysisfemparallelmultiphysics
andfranklin/thermal_radiation
Apr 2020 - Nov 2023
A framework to aid in the analysis of thermal networks involving thermal radiation.
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 8 months
aidradiationpythonthermal
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