Jake Ostien
Manager, Systems Engineering at Sandia National Laboratories
Livermore, California, United States
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Top SchoolJake Ostien is a seasoned computational mechanics leader with 15 years at Sandia National Laboratories, now managing Systems Engineering to support national security stockpile sustainment. He combines a PhD in Mechanical Engineering and Scientific Computing with deep expertise in finite element methods, constitutive modeling, and C++ numerical software to model metals, polymers, and geomaterials across scales. Jake has led teams developing production-ready simulation tools and an open-source finite element code integrating automatic differentiation and uncertainty quantification, bridging research and operational software. Known for close collaboration with experimentalists, he drives continuous improvement of analysis capabilities for complex, inelastic, finite-deformation problems. Based in Livermore, CA, he brings uncommon breadth from hands-on algorithm development to program-level systems integration for defense applications.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Ph. D., Mechanical Engineering and Scientific Computing, Ph. D., Mechanical Engineering and Scientific Computing at University of MichiganBA, Physics, BA, Physics at Kalamazoo CollegeMSME, Mechanical Engineering, MSME, Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (12)
structural-engineering10
simulation10
snl-applications10
mechanics10
multiphysics10
python9
physics9
finite-element-analysis9
scientific-computing7
hpc7
trilinos6
react6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jtostie/Mechanics-Papers
May 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
sandialabs/Albany
Oct 2010 - Sep 2016
Sandia National Laboratories' Albany multiphysics code
Contributions:393 commits, 31 pushes, 27 comments in 5 years 11 months
multiphysicsscr-1341snl-applicationssnl-science-libs
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