Anya Petersen
Principal Research Engineer, Building Technologies & Science Center at National Laboratory of the Rockies
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAnya Petersen is a Principal Research Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering cyber-physical systems at the intersection of buildings and the grid. Based in Denver, she leads software and data teams at a national lab, aligning project work with platform-level capabilities for energy technology de-risking, reproducible engineering, and grid cybersecurity. She manages multi-million-dollar portfolios as a PI, drives fundraising and partnerships, and remains hands-on in software engineering and data analysis. Her work includes open-source containerized building modeling (Alfalfa), hardware-in-the-loop DERMS experiments, and community-scale emulation tied to NREL’s ARIES platform. Known for hiring and mentoring cross-disciplinary talent, she blends rigorous applied math training with practical system-building from campus dashboards to supercomputer-backed load forecasting. A detail not obvious from titles: she repeatedly translates lab-scale research into production-ready, containerized services that enable external partners to run interactive, reproducible building-energy analyses.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at New York University
Github Skills (35)
docker10
energy10
scale10
backend10
parametric10
cli10
energyplus9
docker-image9
simulation9
large-scale9
api8
energy-efficiency8
container8
seed8
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NREL/BACnet
Nov 2013 - Mar 2016
Contributions:69 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
NREL/BACnet-state
Dec 2013 - Feb 2016
Contributions:66 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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