Dan Ibanez
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolDan Ibanez is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories with 12 years of experience specializing in advanced C++, parallel and multithreaded programming, software design, and performance optimization. He holds a Ph.D. from Rensselaer and led development of core unstructured mesh libraries used on supercomputers at national labs, reflecting deep HPC and scalability expertise. His open-source work includes porting the widely used LAMMPS molecular dynamics code to Kokkos, modernizing performance-critical modules for portability across diverse architectures. Comfortable bridging research and production, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on systems engineering to squeeze performance out of complex, parallel codes. Based in Albuquerque, he brings rare experience in mesh adaptation and large-scale parallel libraries that power simulations on hundreds of thousands of cores.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, 3.8, Ph.D., Computer Science, 3.8 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
French, Spanish
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Github Skills (20)
c-language10
molecular-simulation10
lammps10
molecular-dynamics-simulation10
parallel-computing10
nonlinear-dynamics10
cprogramming-language10
k10
performance-optimization9
cuda9
refactoring8
macos6
pointer6
gnu6
bsd6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
lammps/lammps
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Public development project of the LAMMPS MD software package
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:118 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Dan is actively involved in porting the LAMMPS molecular dynamics software package to utilize Kokkos, a performance portability library. Their contributions center around implementing Kokkos-enabled versions of various fix and related methods, specifically focusing on the `fix_momentum` module and `pair_dpd_fdt_energy` modules. The user is adapting and refactoring existing code to leverage Kokkos's parallel programming constructs, enabling potential performance improvements on diverse hardware architectures, and adding a `pair_table_rx_kokkos` to replace old code.
lammpsmolecular-dynamicssimulationkokkos
gahansen/lgrtk
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:59 commits in 1 month
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