Jason Newton
Senior Propulsion Software Engineer at SpaceX
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Newton is a Senior Propulsion Software Engineer with 16 years of systems and simulation experience, currently accelerating development at SpaceX through high-performance combustion, solidification, and manufacturing simulations. He builds end-to-end workflows—rewriting material databases, integrating sims into NX, creating web job management, and running HPC clusters—to turn complex physics models into ultrafast, production-ready tools. Jason has deep GPU and distributed-systems expertise (CUDA, NCCL, RDMA, MPI) and has driven major performance gains by fusing kernels, JITing thermochemistry, and scaling OpenFOAM data loading. He previously delivered dramatic speedups for embedded and vision systems at UtopiaCompression and optimized GPU image-registration at MITRE, blending research-grade algorithms with rigorous engineering and flight/test experience. Notably, he has negotiated vendor partnerships (Nvidia, Kitware) to unlock features and co-developed zero-overhead profiling pipelines that make large-scale simulation tuning repeatable and transparent.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.S, Computer Science, B.S, Computer Science at University of California, Irvine
English, Japanese
Github Skills (200)
cpython10
data-stream10
floating-point10
cpp10
cpython-extensions10
big-data10
h5py10
bazel10
binary-data10
nist10
unicode10
python-bindings10
scanning10
notebook10
python10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nevion/cldemosaic
Feb 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
nevion/h5py
Jul 2015 - May 2019
HDF5 for Python -- The h5py package is a Pythonic interface to the HDF5 binary data format.
Contributions:7 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 10 months
h5pybinary-datapythondata-formathdf5
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