Jay Taves
Software Developer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJay Taves is a software developer with 11 years of experience who blends production C++/Java engineering at AWS and Accuray with high-performance computational physics research from his MS at UW–Madison. He led development and management of SynChrono, an open-source C++ library that scaled multi-vehicle physics simulation to hundreds of agents and informed conference papers and SuperComputing presentations. His thesis work produced a Lie-group based solver for index-3 DAEs that achieved 2–4x speedups in multibody simulation, reflecting deep numerical and HPC expertise beyond typical application development. Earlier roles at Epic and startups gave him full-stack experience converting legacy healthcare data and building robust interfaces, while internships at CEA and study at École Centrale Paris added nuclear materials and finite-element perspective. Now based in Bellevue, WA, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on product delivery and mentors collaborators on complex simulation projects. Outside work he keeps sharp through ultimate frisbee and biking, often testing ideas from research in practical, real-world scenarios.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Attended for a Semester, as part of my studies at Cornell, Nuclear Engineering, Attended for a Semester, as part of my studies at Cornell, Nuclear Engineering at Ecole Centrale ParisMaster of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Mechanical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonHigh School, Bilingual International Baccalaureate, High School, Bilingual International Baccalaureate at Interlake Senior High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at Cornell University
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
103reputation
853reached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (19)
simulation10
physics-engine10
robotics10
simulations10
dynamics10
physics10
c-library10
cpp10
high-performance10
multiphysics10
modeling10
rcpp6
visual-studio6
memory-leaks6
javascript6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
JayTaves/Minimization
Apr 2015 - Jul 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 82 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
minimizationgame
JayTaves/SoundFrequency
Sep 2015 - Jan 2021
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 4 months
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