Fred Buhl
Senior Scientific Engineering Associate
California, United States
Summary
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RockstarFred Buhl is a Senior Scientific Engineering Associate with 11 years of experience based in California, specializing in backend development for scientific and energy-focused software. At Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory he applies engineering rigor to research software, contributing to simulation tools that model building energy and water use. An active contributor to the widely used EnergyPlus project, he implemented key fan module functionality such as the FanDesDT calculation and improved code documentation—work that bridges domain expertise and production-quality code. Fred combines a deep understanding of physical systems with practical software engineering, making him effective at turning complex simulation requirements into maintainable implementations. Colleagues value his steady delivery on critical scientific code paths and his attention to clarity in both code and documentation.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (6)
simulations10
simulation10
fortran10
computational-physics10
computational-science10
modeling10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
NREL/EnergyPlus
Jul 2014 - Oct 2016
EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:154 commits, 12 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Fred primarily contributed to the EnergyPlus whole building energy simulation program, focusing on the Fans module. Their work involved implementing new functionalities such as the `FanDesDT` function, which calculates design fan delta T, and improving code documentation through comments. Additionally, they modified existing files to incorporate and test new code features.
renewable-energypower-systemsenergy-consumptionenergy-simulationsimulation
lefticus/EnergyPlus
Jul 2016 - Nov 2016
EnergyPlus™ is a whole building energy simulation program that engineers, architects, and researchers use to model both energy consumption and water use in buildings.
Contributions:8 commits in 3 months
modelicarenewable-energyenergy-consumptionenergy-simulationsimulation
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