Dave Nystrom
Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolDave Nystrom is a Technical Staff Member and computational physicist with nine years of recent experience (and decades overall) building high-performance scientific and numerical software in C++ for supercomputers and large compute farms. He has led development and verification efforts across domains including electronic design automation placement, national defense simulations, and computational plasma physics, often integrating advanced template-based and object-oriented designs into production-ready codes. At Los Alamos he ensures institutional applications run efficiently on new HPC hardware, drawing on prior roles that delivered placement automation, interoperability and timing-closure innovations for semiconductor toolchains. Dave combines deep algorithmic skill (including use of integer linear programming in placement automation) with a strong focus on verification, validation and customer-facing support, helping users apply complex tools effectively. His background—PhD in physics and engineering-focused degrees—lets him bridge rigorous scientific modeling with practical tapeout and benchmarking constraints, making him equally comfortable in research code and mission-critical production flows.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at The University of Texas at AustinB.S., Nuclear Engineering, B.S., Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M UniversityIrving High School
Github Skills (15)
hpc-applications10
particle10
high-performance9
linux9
vector9
snl-applications9
simulation9
hpc9
macos8
windows8
scientific-computing8
python8
build-tools6
spack5
compiler5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dnystrom1/vpic
Oct 2018 - Sep 2020
Vector Particle-In-Cell (VPIC) Project
Contributions:66 pushes, 11 branches in 1 year 11 months
particlevectorsimulationparticle-in-cell
dnystrom1/vpic_project
Jun 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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