Boyd Bowdish
Mechanical Engineering Manager at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolBoyd Bowdish is a Mechanical Engineering Manager based in Menlo Park with over a decade of hands-on experience specializing in cryogenics design and refrigeration for large scientific instruments. He leads mechanical engineering at SLAC and serves as the responsible refrigeration engineer for the LSST camera at the Vera Rubin Observatory, combining lab-scale innovation with operational deployment in flagship scientific facilities. An inventor with ten cryogenic technologies and nine U.S. patents issued while at Reflect Scientific, he has a rare track record of moving novel cryogenic systems from concept to regulatory approval. His career spans academia, industry, and entrepreneurship—running his own cryogenics consultancy while contributing long-term to national labs and observatory projects. Trained to doctoral level in physics, Boyd blends deep theoretical grounding with practical manufacturing and installation experience in LN2 systems and molecular beam epitaxy platforms. Colleagues rely on him for solving stubborn low-temperature engineering challenges that demand both creative design and disciplined systems integration.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
English
Github Skills (9)
consumption9
concave8
python6
convex6
optimization2
cvxpy2
iot1
convex-optimization1
energy1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cvxgrp/cvxbook_additional_exercises
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Additional exercises and data for EE364a. No solutions; for public consumption.
Contributions:7 commits, 15 pushes, 1 comment in 11 days
pythonadditionalconsumption
cvxgrp/dccp
Jun 2016 - Apr 2022
A CVXPY extension for convex-concave programming
Contributions:8 comments in 5 years 10 months
convexcvxpyconcave
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