Benjamin Faber
Software Developer at Stellar Science Ltd Co
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolBenjamin Faber is a software developer and computational physicist with two decades of experience building high-performance simulation codes in C++ and Fortran and nearly a decade of professional software experience. He specializes in distributed and parallel HPC for fluids and plasmas, holds a PhD from UW–Madison, and has translated research-grade models into robust, portable builds across platforms. Benjamin is also an experienced Julia package author and build/release engineer who has contributed build recipes and platform fixes to the widely used JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil ecosystem, including integrating the VMEC scientific code via BinaryBuilder. Based in Madison, WI, he bridges deep numerical physics expertise with practical automation and cross-platform packaging skills, ensuring complex scientific software is reproducible and deployable beyond the lab.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Plasma and High-Temperature Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Plasma and High-Temperature Physics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonCalifornia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Arts - MA Plasma and High-Temperature Physics, Master of Arts - MA Plasma and High-Temperature Physics at Princeton University
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pbuilder10
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Github contributions (5)
JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil
Dec 2021 - Jul 2022
Collection of builder repositories for BinaryBuilder.jl
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:11 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin's primary contributions center around building and configuring recipes for the BinaryBuilder.jl toolchain within the context of the yggdrasil repository. Their work involves creating and updating build scripts, handling dependencies, and adapting the build process to support different platforms and configurations. The user has demonstrably worked on building and integrating VMEC, a scientific software package, within the BinaryBuilder ecosystem. Key tasks include modifying build systems (autotools) and resolving compilation issues across different operating systems.
repositoriesbinarybuildermonorepobuilderjulia
benjaminfaber/VMECTools
Jun 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:64 commits, 47 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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