Berk Geveci
Senior Director Of Scientific Computing at Kitware Inc.
New York, United States
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Top SchoolBerk Geveci is a senior scientific computing leader with 25 years of experience architecting and delivering research-grade visualization and analysis software. As Senior Director of Scientific Computing at Kitware since 2013, he has advanced large-scale engineering teams and steered R&D from hands-on development to strategic program leadership. His deep technical roots—PhD in Mechanical Engineering and two decades contributing to VTK/ParaView—translate into practical improvements such as enhancing ParaView’s Python API and readers for complex data formats like OpenPMD. Based in New York, he blends academic rigor from Lehigh University with sustained industry impact, maintaining active involvement in open-source engineering. Colleagues know him for turning scientific requirements into robust, scriptable visualization services that scale across HPC environments.
25 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics at Lehigh UniversityBS, Mechanical Enginnering, BS, Mechanical Enginnering at Boğaziçi University
English, Turkish, French
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Github Skills (16)
paraview10
scientific-visualization10
vtk10
python10
apidoc9
api9
file-handling8
file-processing8
data-structures8
data-structure8
fileio8
file-access8
json7
mesh6
colors6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/ParaView
Oct 2000 - Dec 2021
VTK-based Data Analysis and Visualization Application
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4568 commits in 21 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Berk made multiple enhancements to the Python scripting capabilities of the ParaView server manager and its modules, particularly focused on improving the Python API's usability. These enhancements included improving proxy label handling, updating the file series reader and OpenPMD reader, and added support for features like the MultiCompositeDataIterator. The changes primarily revolved around adding new functionalities and resolving critical bugs.
data-analysisvisualization-applicationdata-visualizationopen-sciencescientific-visualization
berkgeveci/berkgeveci.github.io
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 12 pushes in 5 months
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