Brian Kauffman
Retired ( ) at Home
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Kauffman is a retired scientific applications software engineer with over three decades of hands-on experience supporting climate modeling on supercomputing platforms. He spent the bulk of his career at NCAR, designing, maintaining, and adapting research codes while managing batch job workflows, data processing and lifecycle, and user support for scientists. Comfortable as a solo engineer or a member of large multidisciplinary teams, he bridges domain science and robust software practices to keep complex models running at scale. His background in mathematics underpins a methodical approach to numerical code and data management challenges. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he brings practical institutional knowledge of HPC operations, reproducible research workflows, and long-term code stewardship that often goes unseen but is critical to scientific productivity.
17 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Mathematics, M.A., Mathematics at University of Colorado at Boulder
Github Skills (12)
earth10
climate-model10
gis10
hydrology10
ecosystem9
ocean8
modeling6
infrastructure4
golang4
parallel3
collaboration3
inherited3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ihesp/ocpl
May 2019 - Apr 2021
ocean coupler -- a cesm ocean component that embeds roms in pop
Contributions:54 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
golangoceanpopcesmembeds
kauff/git-collaboration
Apr 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:1 push in 4 years 2 months
workflowscollaboration
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