Daniel Fulton
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Fulton is an HPC/AI systems engineer with 12 years of experience bridging computational physics and production software, currently shaping programming environments for supercomputers at NERSC. He has moved between national lab-scale HPC roles and industry positions at Microsoft and adidas, delivering infrastructure, data workflows, and software for high-performance simulations and product-focused 3D printing systems. With a PhD in computational plasma physics, he brings deep numerical modeling and performance optimization skills alongside systems-level engineering for AI workloads. Pragmatic and hands-on, he tinkers beyond code—brewing beer, cooking, and building circuits—which reflects a maker's approach to tooling and experimentation that informs his engineering practice.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Physics, Computer Science, B.A., Physics, Computer Science at Lawrence UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Plasma Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Plasma Physics at University of California, Irvine
English, Japanese
Github Skills (57)
starcraft10
gameplay9
crossword9
minecraft9
jupyterlab9
csv9
xml9
baduk8
jupyterlab-extension8
toml8
dm8
iot-cloud8
json8
portable8
jupyter8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
NERSC/podman-hpc
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 releases, 50 reviews, 157 commits in 5 months
NERSC/data-day-2022
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Demo code for the NERSC Data Day 2022 training event.
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 17 days
nerscdayeventtraining
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