Jamil Appa
Co-Founder And Director at Zenotech Ltd
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJamil Appa is a co-founder and director with 13 years of experience building and commercialising high-performance computational engineering software for HPC and GPU cloud environments. He blends deep domain expertise in aerodynamics and CFD with hands-on technical leadership across mesh generation, CAD/PDM/CAE pipelines, parallel and cluster computing. A proficient developer in C++, Fortran, Java, MPI and CUDA, he’s delivered production-grade simulation and visualization tools that scale on Unix clusters and modern GPU infrastructures. Based in Bristol, he pairs an MSc in Aerodynamics from Cranfield with practical startup experience, translating research-grade codes into commercial HPC services and consultancy. Jamil’s background implies a strong ability to bridge aerodynamic theory and software engineering, often optimizing algorithms for performance on heterogeneous hardware. He thrives at the intersection of engineering science and scalable software, leading teams to turn complex simulations into deployable products.
13 years of coding experience
BEng, Aeronautics/Astronautics, BEng, Aeronautics/Astronautics at University of SouthamptonShoreham CollegeSaint Esprit MauritiusMSc, Aerodynamics, MSc, Aerodynamics at Cranfield University
English, French
Github Skills (81)
solver10
lsf10
scrutinizer10
paraview9
slurm9
hpc-cluster9
upstream9
cuda9
gridengine8
python8
gpu8
napalm8
hpc8
mpi8
nvidia8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zenotech/ThreadWorker
Feb 2016 - Aug 2024
Master - Worker tasking library including CUDA support for tasking GPUs
Contributions:4 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 7 months
cudaopenclmultithreadingnvidiagpu
jappa/VizStack
Jan 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 10 months
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