Chris White
Group Leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris White is a seasoned software leader and computer scientist with 15 years of experience driving high-quality engineering at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he now leads and mentors a multidisciplinary group. He combines hands-on systems engineering—creating scalable, massively parallel C++ libraries and a cross-platform CMake-based build framework (BLT)—with operational rigor in CI/CD and build tooling across GitLab, Jenkins, Bamboo, and Azure Pipelines. A frequent contributor to influential open-source projects like Spack (notably improving the Axom package, dependency handling, and CachedCMakePackage conversion), he brings deep expertise in build systems, CMake, and HPC programming models (MPI, CUDA/HIP, OpenMP). Chris is recognized for translating legacy build landscapes into maintainable, test-driven workflows and for pragmatic hiring and career development practices that scale technical teams.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (9)
build-tools10
build-system10
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
package-management10
scientific-computing9
fortran9
hpc8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spack/spack
Dec 2019 - Nov 2022
A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:111 reviews, 53 commits, 73 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Axom package within the Spack repository, focusing on implementing new features and fixing build processes. They added and updated dependencies like RAJA and Umpire, and fixed the installation target. The user also addressed compiler flag handling and resolved issues related to Fortran compiler configurations. Further contributions included converting the package to CachedCMakePackage, along with adding and updating tests and examples.
compilerspythonradiussplatformslinux
LLNL/blt
Mar 2017 - Jan 2023
A streamlined CMake build system foundation for developing HPC software
Contributions:17 releases, 326 reviews, 547 commits in 5 years 11 months
cppcmakeradiussdevelopingtesting
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