Bradley Ling
Senior R&D Engineer at Principle Power
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBradley Ling is a Senior R&D Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of experience applying mechanical and ocean engineering to offshore renewable energy. He specializes in hydrodynamic modeling, dynamic system simulation, mooring analysis, control design, and design optimization, and has a track record of streamlining engineering workflows to boost efficiency. Bradley pairs strong programming skills with hands-on test data collection and processing to tackle complex analyses across wave energy and marine systems. He has contributed to the widely used open-source WEC-Sim simulator, improving nonlinear force handling, runtime efficiency, and irregular wave calculations. With roles spanning research, naval architecture, and senior R&D positions, he combines academic rigor from an MS at Oregon State University with practical product development experience.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Rochester Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.), Master of Science (M.S.) at Oregon State University
Github Skills (6)
simulink10
matlab10
hydrodynamics9
simulations9
simulation9
file-handling8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
WEC-Sim/WEC-Sim
Sep 2015 - Apr 2019
Wave Energy Converter Simulator (WEC-Sim), an open-source code for simulating wave energy converters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 15 PRs, 42 comments in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bradley primarily contributed to the core functionality and structure of the WEC-Sim simulator, specifically modifying the underlying Matlab code. Their work focused on enhancing the simulation's capabilities, such as implementing output sample time adjustments and enabling slower calculation rates for nonlinear forces. They also addressed bug fixes related to file handling and calculations within the simulation. Furthermore, they improved MCR runtime by storing hydroData between runs and fixing irregular wave calculations.
convertersmatlabsnl-applicationswave-energymarine-renewable-energy
bradling/wec_model_estimate_predict
Dec 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:35 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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