Carson Woods
Doctoral Student at Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolCarson Woods is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at Emory University with 11 years of experience building and researching high-performance and scalable computing systems. His research and industry internships (including multiple placements at Sandia National Laboratories) focus on HPC tooling, declarative logic problems, and software that scales across clusters. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed backend improvements and new package support to the widely used Spack package manager, adding versions and configuration fixes for critical HPC libraries and runtimes. Based in Atlanta, he blends rigorous academic training in CS and mathematics with hands-on systems engineering, and is known to approach problems with a developer’s curiosity—“haunted by daemons”—that drives careful, low-level work.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Emory UniversityRavenwood High School
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Github Skills (10)
build-tools10
hpc10
package-management10
python10
autotools9
cmake8
makefile8
fortran6
c-language6
cprogramming-language6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Package Manager Contributor
Backend Developer & Package Manager ContributorContributions:50 reviews, 39 commits, 54 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Carson primarily contributed to the `spack/spack` repository by adding support for various software packages. Their work involved adding new versions of existing packages (NetCDF, Singularity, UCX, Qthreads, PowerAPI, Lua-luaposix, Lmod, CMake, Singularity, PMIX, Darshan, and intel-mpi-benchmarks), and adding new packages. They also implemented configuration options, and resolved relative paths to absolute paths when adding compilers.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
CUP-ECS/irregular-benchmarking
Sep 2022 - Feb 2023
Collection of scripts to perform analysis and benchmarking on parameters extracted from various mini-apps.
Contributions:1 review, 77 commits, 11 PRs in 4 months
parameterspythonbenchmarkingmini-appsbenchmark
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