David Sondak
Research And Development Software Engineering Manager at Dassault Systèmes Simulia Corp.
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Sondak is a Research and Development Software Engineering Manager with 10+ years at the intersection of computational science, AI/ML, and engineering physics, now leading R&D at Dassault Systèmes Simulia. He blends deep domain expertise in CFD, turbulence modeling, and numerical methods with production-grade software skills in C++, Python, PyTorch, and Fortran, and a track record of published research in scientific machine learning and fluid mechanics. His background includes academia—teaching and supervising graduate research at Harvard and developing novel algorithms for coherent structures and thermal convection—bringing rigorous scientific thinking to industrial software development. David’s work often focuses on physics-informed ML, surrogate and reduced-order models, and uncertainty quantification, allowing him to translate complex flow physics into practical, high-performance simulation tools. An underappreciated strength is his experience shipping and validating commercial CFD codebases, giving him rare fluency across theory, code, and product.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Aerospace Engineering, PhD, Aerospace Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteB.S., Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh University
English, French
Github Skills (34)
ode10
numerical-integration10
ssreflect10
pde10
dynamical-systems10
physics-informed-neural-networks10
differential-equations10
stochastic-processes10
pde-solver10
pypi10
stochastic-differential-equations10
artificial-intelligence9
pytorch9
time-series9
meta-analysis9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
IACS-CS-207/cs207-F17
Aug 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 235 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
public-repositoryfall
HeyItsRiddhi/cs207_riddhi_shah
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:334 commits in 3 months
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