Douglas Shanks
Senior HPC Application Analyst
Greater Edinburgh Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Shanks is a Senior HPC Application Analyst at HPE with a decade of hands-on experience accelerating large-scale scientific applications through porting, benchmarking, profiling and optimization. Trained academically in theoretical and computational mathematics with a PhD in numerical analysis, he blends deep algorithmic understanding with practical parallel coding expertise across Fortran, C/C++, Python and shell. He routinely tackles MPI, OpenMP and GPU models (CUDA, OpenACC, HIP) to debug and scale complex simulations for research and defence customers. Known for translating numerical research into high-performance production workflows, he brings both university research pedigree and industry-grade delivery to HPC problem-solving. Based in the Greater Edinburgh area, he pairs classical applied-math instincts with modern heterogeneous computing stacks to squeeze performance from real-world codes.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Master's degree, Theoretical and Mathematical Physics at The University of EdinburghHeriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Numerical Analysis, Pass (minor corrections), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Numerical Analysis, Pass (minor corrections) at University of BathLinlithgow Academy
English
Github Skills (25)
tealeaf10
fortran8
openmp6
equation6
heat5
solve5
mpi4
ref4
gpu3
sketchup3
hydrodynamics3
cuda3
react3
euler3
abaqus3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
UK-MAC/TeaLeaf_CUDA
Apr 2017 - Mar 2020
Version of TeaLeaf using CUDA
Contributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 years 10 months
cudagputealeaf
douglas-shanks/diffapp
Dec 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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