Jason Gates
Senior Member Of The Technical Staff Radar Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance at Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolJason Gates is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories with nine years of experience transforming computational research into sustainable software and DevOps practices. Trained as an engineering physicist and computational mathematician (PhD), he shifted into software engineering to focus on reliable implementations and now specializes in helping teams adopt DevOps culture, CI/CD, and reproducible Python infrastructure. He excels as a generalist who identifies team pain points, prioritizes high-impact improvements, and iterates with specialists to deliver measurable productivity gains. Known for automating adherence to engineering standards and streamlining open-source workflows, he prefers asynchronous collaboration and minimalist synchronous meetings to keep teams focused. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to descend into numerical and algorithmic details when needed, ensuring that infrastructure changes preserve scientific fidelity while improving delivery.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational and Applied Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computational and Applied Mathematics at Colorado School of MinesMaster of Science - MS Applied Mathematics, Master of Science - MS Applied Mathematics at The University of Tulsa
Github Skills (122)
parser10
python10
testing10
abstraction10
trilinos10
package-manager-tool10
build-automation10
cpp10
scientific-computing10
argparse10
github-api10
open-access10
agile10
integrate10
scripting10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sandialabs/reverse_argparse
May 2023 - Jul 2026
A Python library to determine what exactly the user ran at the command line, along with default values, and any transformations that happened after parsing arguments.
Contributions:17 releases, 177 reviews, 299 PRs in 3 years 2 months
command-linedefault-valueparsingpythonsnl-comp-science-libs
tcad-charon/Trilinos
Aug 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:113 pushes, 55 branches, 139 tags in 1 year 2 months
trilinos
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