Brooks Smith
Senior Engineer (R&D) at University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolBrooks Smith is a dual‑citizen Chartered/PE structural engineer and senior R&D engineer with over 15 years of experience building cloud-based structural design tools and finite element solvers. He has led engineering R&D and QA at ClearCalcs, architected the first cloud Direct Strength Method software for cold‑formed steel in multiple countries, and now splits time between industry work, casual academia, and pursuing a part‑time PhD. A hands‑on developer in Python, Brooks is the lead maintainer of anaStruct and pyCUFSM—open‑source packages underpinning several of his commercial products—and brings deep expertise in mechanics of materials, cold‑formed steel, and international design codes. Colleagues value his blend of technical leadership, product delivery, and research rigor, and outside work he’s an avid cyclist, hiker, and thru‑hiker who once completed the 2,185‑mile Appalachian Trail.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
A.B. Engineering Sciences modified with Mathematics, A.B. Engineering Sciences modified with Mathematics at Dartmouth CollegeM.S.C.E. Structural Engineering, M.S.C.E. Structural Engineering at University of Massachusetts AmherstB.E. Structural & Materials Engineering, B.E. Structural & Materials Engineering at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
English, French, Greek, Latin
Github Skills (27)
javascript10
expression-evaluator10
python10
mathematics10
thin10
bignumbers10
packaging10
complex-numbers10
math10
tld10
structural-engineering10
finite-element-analysis10
strip10
mathematical-expressions10
math-library10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ClearCalcs/pyCUFSM
Jan 2020 - May 2021
Python port of CUFSM (Constrained and Unconstrained Finite Strip Method), for analysing the buckling of thin-walled structures.
Contributions:14 releases, 122 reviews, 89 commits in 1 year 4 months
bucklingpythonunconstrainedmethodstrip
smith120bh/anaStruct
Feb 2021 - May 2021
2D structural analysis in Python
Contributions:16 commits, 84 pushes, 26 branches in 3 months
pythonstructural-analysisstructural
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