Craig Tanis
Senior Engineer at MSC Software
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Tanis is a Senior Engineer in Washington, DC with 11 years of professional experience and a deep academic foundation—holding a PhD in Computational Engineering and master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Tulane. He blends research-grade expertise in programming languages, distributed parallel algorithms, and heterogeneous high-performance computing with practical software development across industry and academia, including a decade as an assistant professor and leadership roles as CTO and company president. At MSC Software he applies applied mathematics and scientific application knowledge to real-world engineering problems, bringing an educator’s clarity to technical communication and public speaking. Known for bridging theory and implementation, he has a track record of translating complex numerical methods into performant, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational Engineering at The University of Tennessee at ChattanoogaMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Tulane University
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Github Skills (33)
ipad9
lists9
scientific-computing9
trilinos8
hpc8
algorithms8
iphone8
api7
evernote6
recursion6
emacs6
textmate6
perl6
threejs6
memory-leaks6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ctanis/dotfiles
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:66 commits, 475 pushes in 3 years 6 months
ctanis/drumgang
Apr 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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