Cory Waltz
Pulser Engineering Lead at Pacific Fusion
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolCory Waltz is a systems-focused engineering leader with 11 years of experience building one-of-a-kind diagnostic hardware for high-consequence facilities, currently leading pulser engineering for a commercial fusion effort in Fremont. He has shepherded multidisciplinary teams from requirements and design reviews through commissioning at the National Ignition Facility, where his nuclear diagnostics contributed to the first laboratory fusion ignition. Cory combines deep hands-on experience in cryogenics, neutron generator design, and micron-accurate alignment with program management skills—hiring, budgeting, and mentoring engineering teams of 10–20. He holds a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from UC Berkeley and a systems design certificate from MIT, reflecting a blend of rigorous research and pragmatic systems engineering. An active contributor to open-source scientific tooling, he has improved visualization capabilities in the popular python-ternary plotting library, demonstrating an eye for usable data presentation beyond hardware.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Nuclear Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Nuclear Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyGraduate Certificate Systems Design and Management, Graduate Certificate Systems Design and Management at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering at Michigan State University
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Github Skills (15)
data-visualizations10
color-mapping10
heatmap10
data-visualization10
data-visualisation10
python10
matplotlib10
neural-network6
gadfly6
vim6
scipy6
colorbar6
julia6
scikit-learn6
wolfram-mathematica6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
marcharper/python-ternary
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
:small_red_triangle: Ternary plotting library for python with matplotlib
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 8 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to the `python-ternary` library by adding new features and improving existing ones related to heatmaps and color mapping functionalities. Key changes included adding options for `vmin` and `vmax` to the `heatmapf` function, incorporating colorbar labels, and modifying the behavior for non-scientific formatting. The user also introduced functionality to customize the color of axis ticks and boundaries, and provided an example of a color-coded heatmap, enhancing the library's plotting capabilities.
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CorySimon/PEGrid
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 130 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 8 months
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