David Calvert is a visiting scholar and Staff Site Reliability & Platform Engineer with eight years of experience bridging academic research and production engineering. He holds advanced degrees in physics and applied mathematics and built his PhD work modeling 3D magnetohydrodynamic supernovae and integrating quantum neutrino flavor oscillations into hybrid FORTRAN/C++ codes. Equally comfortable in low-level scientific computing and platform engineering, he has shipped embedded tooling and graphics systems for a handheld coding platform and developed production LabVIEW control software for spectroscopy hardware. Based in the Bay Area, he brings Unix, Python, bash, and systems management expertise from campus IT to scalable site reliability practice, with a knack for turning complex physics simulations into maintainable, modular code. Notably, his background combines hands-on instrumentation control and high-performance scientific modeling, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary fluency between experimental systems and software infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Astrophysics at North Carolina State University
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