Britton Olson
Group Leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolBritton Olson is a computational physicist and group leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with 11 years of experience translating advanced physical models into production-grade simulation and data-science code. He holds an MS and PhD in Aero/Astro from Stanford and a BS in Mechanical Engineering, and combines deep mathematical modeling skills with practical software craftsmanship in Python, C++, Matlab, and Fortran. At LLNL he progressed from postdoc to group leadership, driving interdisciplinary research programs that bridge high-fidelity simulation, uncertainty quantification, and scalable code development. He has a history of building automation tools (e.g., an autonomous PDF converter early in his career) and brings an experimentalist’s rigor to software design and verification. Based in Palo Alto, he blends academic depth with government-lab delivery experience, making complex physics accessible through reproducible, well-engineered computational pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BS, Mechanical Engineering, BS, Mechanical Engineering at Brigham Young UniversityPh.D., Aero/Astro, Ph.D., Aero/Astro at Stanford University
Spanish
Github Skills (38)
sparse10
pde10
solver10
fortran10
hyperbolic10
finite-difference10
python9
linear-systems9
miranda9
scientific-visualization8
snl-applications8
hpc8
parallel8
mesh7
visualization7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
LLNL/pyranda
Apr 2018 - Aug 2022
A Python driven, Fortran powered Finite Difference solver for arbitrary hyperbolic PDE systems. This is the mini-app for the Miranda code.
Contributions:3 reviews, 355 commits, 118 PRs in 4 years 4 months
mirandapythonpdefinite-differencesolver
flow-phys/sqlite2xls
Aug 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 1 year
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