Jon Wolfe
Scientist III at N/A
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Wolfe is a Scientist III and seasoned scientific software engineer with over two decades of experience applying software engineering best practices to HPC-driven earth and climate modeling. Based in Santa Fe, he combines deep domain expertise from Los Alamos and NCAR with hands-on contributions to widely used open-source projects like MPAS and the Common Infrastructure for Modeling the Earth (CIME), focusing on coupling, parallel I/O, and water budget correctness. He has led small engineering teams and architected production HPC systems—most notably a real-time wind forecasting SaaS—bridging research code and operational deployments. Jon’s background in mechanical engineering and long track record of porting, validating, and optimizing large-scale scientific codes means he’s equally comfortable debugging interprocess timestamp syncs as designing system-level ensemble workflows.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, 3.9, Bachelor of Science (BS), Mechanical Engineering, 3.9 at The University of New MexicoLake Highlands High School
Github Skills (13)
fortran10
mpi10
coupling10
ocean10
ocean-modelling10
scientific-computing10
modeling10
model-driven9
model-driven-development9
build-system9
model-building9
netcdf9
cim8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ESMCI/cime
Nov 2016 - Jul 2021
Common Infrastructure for Modeling the Earth
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 143 commits, 6 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jon primarily focused on bug fixes and integration within the "Common Infrastructure for Modeling the Earth" repository. Their contributions included resolving a PIO error in CICE by synchronizing timestamps across processors, as well as fixing water budget calculations. The user also made changes to the codebase related to build, testing and environment settings, and improved the code coverage. They interacted with code related to data components, drivers, and the configuration of the software.
modelingearthinfrastructure
MPAS-Dev/MPAS-Model
Sep 2015 - Apr 2021
Repository for MPAS models and shared framework releases.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 32 commits, 8 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jon made several modifications to the MPAS-model repository related to the CICE component, focusing on coupling and forcing routines. Their contributions include adding checks for initialization, making routines public for ACME integration, and modifying existing code for two-way coupling. They also addressed issues related to the build process and made a fix for salinity restoring. These changes suggest involvement in the core model logic and its integration with external systems.
pythonmpas
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