Denis Nadeau
Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolDenis Nadeau is a seasoned scientist and software engineer with 20 years building data-driven systems for national-scale science and defense programs, currently leading the Nuclear Detonation Detection System (NDS-7) project at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He combines expertise in scientific algorithm development, multi-classification-level computing and network integration, and big-data tooling—from PySpark/Dask to C++ and Python—gained through prior roles at Lawrence Livermore and NASA. Denis has a strong climate and Earth-science background (MS in Geosciences, advanced PhD work in oceanography and marine biology) that informs his approach to processing and validating remote-sensing and spacecraft instrument data. Known for aggregating data-centric efforts and improving operational effectiveness, he bridges research, software engineering, and operational deployment in high-consequence environments. An early contributor to GDAL/HDF5/netCDF tooling, he brings both domain depth and practical experience shipping robust scientific data pipelines.
20 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Université LavalUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (ABD), Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, not completed, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (ABD), Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, not completed at University of South Florida
English, Spanish, French, Italian
Github Skills (111)
climate-model10
gradient-descent10
python10
gdal10
forge10
numerics10
conda-forge10
esgf10
hpc-applications10
rasterio10
translator10
numba10
json10
atmospheric-modelling10
fundamental10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
PCMDI/xml-cmor3-database
Sep 2015 - Aug 2019
Work on CMOR3 XML database which will replace CMOR2 tables.
Contributions:2 releases, 62 PRs, 88 pushes in 3 years 11 months
schematronxml-databasexmlcmor3database
CDAT/libcf
Mar 2017 - Jul 2019
libcf repo
Contributions:1 release, 17 PRs, 50 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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