Brad Whitlock
Post-Processing & Visualization Engineer
Livermore, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrad Whitlock is a Post-Processing & Visualization Engineer with 19 years of HPC and scientific software experience, currently based in Livermore, California. He blends domain expertise from a long tenure at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with product-focused engineering at Intelligent Light to deliver robust visualization and post-processing tools. A hands-on C++ back-end developer, he contributes to prominent open-source projects like the MFEM finite element library, where he integrated Flexible Mesh Suite support and improved data collection and conversion tooling. Known for bridging research-grade numerical libraries and practical visualization pipelines, he excels at turning complex simulation data into interoperable, production-ready formats.
19 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
el10
hpc10
f10
cprogramming-language10
scientific-computing10
computational-science9
parallel-computing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mfem/mfem
Jul 2020 - Jan 2021
Lightweight, general, scalable C++ library for finite element methods
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Brad's commits focus on integrating the Finite Element Method (FEM) library, MFEM, with the FMS (Flexible Mesh Suite) library. They added code for FMS detection to the MFEM build process and created stubs for converting between MFEM and FMS data. The user also implemented initial functionality for `FMSDataCollection` and updated the `convert-dc` tool to use it. Furthermore, they improved grid function conversions and metadata translation.
cppfinite-elementshigh-orderhigh-performance-computingparallel-computing
BradWhitlock/conduit
May 2018 - Jul 2018
Simplified Data Exchange for HPC Simulations
Contributions:76 pushes in 2 months
data-exchangeexchangehpc-applicationssimulationssimplified
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