David Taflin
Senior Software Development Engineer at Tecplot, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Taflin is a Senior Software Development Engineer with over 7 years of commercial experience and decades of technical depth in scientific computing, bringing Ph.D.-level expertise in aeronautics and astronautics to production software. He designs and implements C++, Fortran, and cross-platform solutions for Windows, Linux and macOS, specializing in computational fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, and data visualization. At Tecplot he builds simulation-focused tooling and enhanced output capabilities—contributing Tecplot binary output support to the widely used SU2 open-source CFD suite—bridging research-grade algorithms with engineer-friendly products. His background as a Navy officer and Engineering Duty Commander adds practical systems thinking, disciplined problem solving, and a focus on reliability. Comfortable both debugging low-level connectivity/IO issues and applying numerical methods to PDEs, he pairs deep domain knowledge with hands-on development and customer-facing technical support. Based in Seattle, he combines academic rigor with a pragmatic drive to make complex simulations accessible and actionable.
7 years of coding experience
Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics at University of WashingtonBS, Aeronautical Engineering, BS, Aeronautical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteAnoka Senior High School
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Github Skills (15)
fluid-dynamics10
mpi10
cfengine10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
cfc10
cfml10
open-source9
boost-asio6
windows6
socket6
linked-list6
compilation6
network-programming6
fortran4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
su2code/SU2
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019
SU2: An Open-Source Suite for Multiphysics Simulation and Design
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 4 PRs, 1 push in 4 months
Contributions summary:David contributed to the development of Tecplot binary output functionality, including serial and parallel implementations. They modified existing output modules to generate Tecplot output files, specifically for surface and volumetric solutions. Furthermore, the user addressed and corrected issues related to connectivity sorting and file suffixes for Tecplot binary files. Their work focused on enhancing the simulation output capabilities of the SU2 suite.
physicsmultiphysics-simulationpythoncfdsnl-applications
davetaflin/SU2
Jan 2019 - May 2021
SU2: An Open-Source Suite for Multiphysics Simulation and Design
Contributions:2 PRs, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
multiphysics-simulationmultiphysicssimulationsu2suite
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