Jan Thorbecke
Distinguished Technologist Performance And Application Engineer In HPC
Alphen, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolJan Thorbecke is a Distinguished Technologist and Performance/Application Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience optimizing scientific codes for modern HPC platforms at HPE-Cray and in academia. He combines deep expertise in vectorisation, cache blocking, MPI/OpenMP scalability, IO optimization and meta-programming to wring performance from CPUs, GPUs and emerging architectures like Slingshot and ARM. Parallel to industry work, he conducts geophysics research at TU Delft, co-authoring 100+ peer-reviewed papers and teaching PhD-level HPC programming, while co-supervising graduate research. His background spans weather and climate models, CFD, material science and quantum mechanics, giving him rare cross-domain fluency in both numerical methods and production tuning. Known for turning complex numerical algorithms into lean, portable implementations, he also enjoys mentoring PhD students and running international workshops and courses. Ambitious to blend AI with deterministic numerical techniques, he’s equally comfortable in production benchmarking and cutting-edge seismic imaging research.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
first year, Philosophy, first year, Philosophy at Leiden UniversityMsC, Geophysics at Applied Earth Sciences, MsC, Geophysics at Applied Earth Sciences at Delft University of Technology
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (6)
algorithms10
finite-difference10
geophysics10
modeling10
3d10
python6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JanThorbecke/OpenSource
Aug 2014 - Aug 2021
Code for geophysical 3D/2D Finite Difference modelling, Marchenko algorithms, 2D/3D x-w migration and utilities.
Contributions:3 releases, 384 commits, 3 PRs in 7 years
3dfinite-differencemarchenkowave-equationmodeling
JanThorbecke/MPIcourse
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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